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danielravennest t1_j1esqk4 wrote

Reply to comment by Nemo_Shadows in NASA astronauts unfurl 4th solar array outside space station by IslandChillin

The thousands of SpaceX Starlink satellites cover about 40 acres. The Earth's cross section, the area available to capture sunlight, is around 32,000,000,000 acres. It is utterly trivial.

About 30-35% of sunlight is reflected back to space, mostly due to clouds, and doesn't warm the Earth. That is a much much bigger factor.

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Nemo_Shadows t1_j1i4rck wrote

Thanks but I'm kind of old school and those headers can still be be falsified in this day and age, plus it is and always has been a courtesy where I come from not arrogance or anything else.

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