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272. Locked into Starlink’s Low Earth Iron Cage

This Machine Kills

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The European Commission's Position on the Need for a Sovereign System

Starlink is designed to work for about three and a half years, the New York Times reports. When that's done, do they just become low Earth orbit space junk? The irony of wanting to be a space-faring species, but then completely locking us into a planet because there's so like so much junk, um, mere, you know, just a couple hundred miles above sea level,.

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