An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.
      • bodaciousFern@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 day ago

        Yeah, about that -

        According to storied Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, there are now one or two of these Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every single day, he recently told EarthSky. And that figure, McDowell warned, is only going to keep climbing.

        All those cremated satellites have scientists concerned about the pollution they’re causing by releasing metals into the stratosphere, with one study speculating that it could kick off a chain reaction that devastates the ozone layer.

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