Chinese scientists have been developing strategies to counter Elon Musk's Starlink satellites, which they see as a threat.
    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Yeah and that is not how that works, that is not how physics works and that is not how anything works.

      • SippyCup@feddit.nlEnglish
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        14 days ago

        A laser heating one side of anything enough to ablate material in space will alter it’s trajectory, it’s entirely possible that objects in low earth orbit would be forced to return to earth. That’s been proposed as a possible way to deal with all the random crap in space.

        • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Yeah, if you take out lots of real world issues, maybe. In reality it is extremely hard for lasers to do any of that over enormous distances, especially through an atmosphere