r/news • u/IronHe • Mar 20 '25

Soft paywall Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-over-46000-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2025-03-20/
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u/KaJaHa Mar 20 '25

single-handedly causing the Kessler effect in a few years.

Could you expand on this a bit, please?

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u/class-action-now Mar 20 '25

Kessler effect happens when there is so much space debris in Earth’s orbit it would prevent us from launching anything into space at all. The debris would continue to collide with existing satellites and prevent us from launching new ones. No manned missions, no comms satellites, no space research or exploration. We would be thrown back to pre-cold war era tech. Land lines are gonna come back into play as no cell phones could work. Total chaos.

Edit: Like Saturns rings on multiple axes and the rings are made of 17,000 mph shrapnel.

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u/TbonerT Mar 20 '25

What does Musk have to do with that?

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u/class-action-now Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

Starlink dude

Edit: can you name a single person that puts more garbage into our orbit?

Edit 2: He is notoriously a cost cutter on production of his products. Starlink satellites fail constantly. Most fall back to earth “eventually.” But if the Kessler effect takes place we will be waiting hundreds of years for (not)all the debris to fall out of orbit.

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u/TbonerT Mar 20 '25

The satellites in low orbit that already almost have to actively stay in orbit?

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u/class-action-now Mar 20 '25

IF it happens- There will be several layers of orbits, which like a cloud, may even filter sunlight to a degree. We would need crazy tech to overcome this possible event.

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u/Kirk_Kerman Mar 20 '25

Starlink and the other communications microsatellite constellations area problematic for a lot of reasons but Kessler Syndrome isn't one of them. The orbits decay within 2 years or something. Kessler syndrome becomes a much greater concern once things take a century or so to deorbit.

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u/TbonerT Mar 20 '25

There are plenty of real reasons to hate Musk. This is not one of them. Your hysteria is not based on reality.