ka-bloom! Look at that fireball. Obviously Trump sabotaged this rocket to shut Musk up about the Epstein stuff.

  • Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    It’s not true. Steel is a non-combustible metal and these rockets are fueled with Methalox. Methane is not an ozone depleting chemical and neither are its combustion products. Physical effects and chemical by-products from satellite re-entry are linked to ozone depletion, so Starlink is the actual thing that SpaceX is doing to fuck it up, as /u/boiledfrog mentioned.

    The water vapor added to the air from methane combustion can impact polar cloud formation that might have some impact on ozone layer replenishment, but there’s a lot of complexity there and seemingly even things like groundwater well usage may have impacts on this.