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> Apparently they don't just completely vaporize, but instead leave behind micro particles that float around for a long time.

That's not clear. There's no empirical evidence of it, and the computer models we have don't have definitive results.

Those alarms are not really proper.



Ignoring problems until they become too big to pooh-pooh away is how we got into the climate crisis. And some countries are still pooh-poohing it away.


Ask a rocket scientist how many up-front tons of CO2 a rocket launch puts into the atmosphere, per pound of will-eventually-reenter satellite mass.

This is kinda like how it's "rational" to pooh-pooh away the possible radon emissions from your rock-hoarding obsession, when your house's floor beams are starting to make loud cracking sounds.


evidence based alarmism.


Oh now even facts are alarmism. Right.. :X


There's no facts here.

I've actually read the paper everyone mentions




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