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LudwigPastorius

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36. You're talking trillions of satellites to make any measurable difference.

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 03:15 PM

Nov 2025

It would take decades to get them into orbit, or at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point, and millions of launches.

You've got to factor in how much more carbon dioxide, soot, and nitrogen oxide is going to be injected into the atmosphere with that many rocket launches.

...and, reducing the amount of solar energy to the Earth does nothing to reverse the acidification of the oceans being caused by greenhouse gases.

Musk is out of his ketamine saturated mind.

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