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  • teft@startrek.websiteEnglish
    142·
    1 year ago

    Also vaporizing metals being added to the upper atmosphere isn’t exactly great.

    • Gigan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t great how? Like in a going to make global warming-worse way or going to give us cancer way?

      • teft@startrek.websiteEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        There are several effects this could have on Earth and the atmosphere. The presence of these particles could affect how water freezes into ice in the stratosphere, and influence the size of stratospheric aerosol particles. They could also induce salt deposition on aerosol particles, and alter the stratospheric refraction of light.

        These may seem like subtle changes, but they could have unintended consequences that we really ought to investigate, the researchers say.

        Link here

      • topinambour_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Few months ago an article was published about how the rockets was warming the upper atmosphere and it was bad for it.