@AlexSanterne@fediscience.org cover
@AlexSanterne@fediscience.org avatar

AlexSanterne

@[email protected]

#Astronomer, working @LAM_Marseille & teaching at Aix-Marseille #University (France)

Expert in finding #NoPlanetB

Want to work in a #fair, #inclusive, and #sustainable #research #environment. Member of #labos1point5

Toot a lot about #ClimateChange and #Climate. Boycott planes, travel by #train only.

Interests: #photography #Astronomy #Space

#fedi22

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

@AlexSanterne@fediscience.org avatar AlexSanterne , to random

This is an amazing app that allows you to see (almost) live all the and (in LEO*) that are in above our heads.

You can pick one and get many info, including its orbit.

yeah, it's completely crowded, but we keep launching more and more 🚀 and much more satellites, like if our ressources were unlimited.

https://leolabs.space/

*LEO: low-Earth orbit (~300km up to 2000km)

@cnes

zoom on the satellites and debris above France and Europe

zoom on the satellites and debris above France and Europe
ALT
AlexSanterne OP ,
@AlexSanterne@fediscience.org avatar

@mlanger @cobalt123 @cnes I think this is due to our limited capability in considering big numbers.

When something gets really big, we can't disentangle from infinite. As soon as you understand the Earth has limited ressources, albeit quite large in number, we can't act anymore like they were infinite.

That's true at least for normal people. Capitalists will continue to exploit the ressources as long as they get money from them.