From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Lynn McGuire   wrote:   
   >Concerns from rivals like Viasat and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin range from   
   >radio interference and orbital dominance to potentially harming the   
   >Earth's atmosphere.   
   >   
   >Wow, are the satellites gonna burn up the atmosphere ?   
      
   Yeah, they are down in LEO, pretty much at the bottom of LEO, and so they   
   don't last long.  But that's okay because they are disposable and easy to   
   replace... but any time anything becomes disposable there are questions   
   of what happens to it when it's disposed of.  Are all those metal ions good   
   for the upper atmosphere or bad?  Will it leave enough up there for   
   something like meteor scatter comms?  That could be fun.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
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