• crapwittyname@lemm.ee
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    14 hours ago

    Dear everyone,

    Please stop accelerating an arms race which puts thousands of objects into low earth orbit.

    Sincerely, Astronomers

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      11 hours ago

      dear astronomers, we hear you, but you are not the priority when it comes to making sure a country can fight back against oppression and fascism. also, oxygen is not a metal in general, unless we are talking about very specific pressures and temperatures of course.

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        10 hours ago

        Oxygen is not hydrogen. Therefore metal.
        In fact hydrogen is a metal as long as it’s not undergoing fusion.
        Lithium - metal.
        Helium, believe it or not - metal. It’s pretty much just lithium anyway.
        Look, can’t we fight back by shooting starlink down instead of sending up more and more until the sky is just a cloud of (actual) metal?