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| coppercone2:
I am not sure how much gas pressure relates to magnetic conductivity or whatever they are talking about exactly. |
| ebastler:
Has anyone bothered to look at the actual paper (linked in the article which the OP refers to)? The paper does discuss its assumptions, and one of them is that many (!) additional satellite networks beyond StarLink become active in the future, namely 100 of them. It also assumes somewhat heavier satellites, and that their whole mass is turned into microparticles in the magnetosphere upon re-entry. How realisitic all these assumptions are is up for debate, but they are all spelled out there -- in contrast to the various more or less sensationalist secondary articles which people seem to restrict themselves to. There is no mention of superconductivity at all, by the way. |
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