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A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth (news.ubc.ca)
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[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How rare are these materials that are sending to space? Literally sending rare metals out of our planet. Even if they fall back down to earth. Is it even possible or viable money wise to recover them?

[–] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Nope, not viable at all. A lot of it is straight up atomized on reentry especially for the smaller devices. Some of it is rare and some is not. The wet dream of these billionaires is they will be the first to figure out space mining and then manufacture. That’s why Elon musk has spacex and the boring company. Then raw resources like precious metals become infinite over night. Hopefully capitalism dies before that happens so we can all enjoy that.