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   neotoy@mastodon.social's status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 20:24:21 JST neotoy

   Project Kuiper? More like project Kessler, amirite? #scamazon

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     Local Agency (laprice@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 20:24:21 JST Local Agency

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     @neotoy I figure you could get a pretty good denial of service on low earth orbit for a budget of less than $5 Million USD.

     A soda can's worth of beach sand tossed into orbit with a sling-a-tron style launcher is more than sufficient to start the process.

     To get super effective; launch westward; you'll need more delta-vee and a beefier launcher but the differential delta-vee

     A couple of dozen sand grains at a differential of more than 20km/s is going to put out enough joules to disable and fragment most of the mini-sats employed by the constellation operators.