Will Satellite Megaconstellations Weaken Earth’s Magnetic Field?
February 6th, 2024Via: Space Weather Archive:
Something unprecedented is happening in Earth orbit. In only a few short years, the satellite population has skyrocketed, more than doubling since 2020. In the past year alone, more satellites have been launched than during the first thirty years of the Space Age. Much of this activity is driven by SpaceX and its growing mega-constellation of Starlink internet satellites.
Environmentalists have raised many concerns about Starlink including light-pollution of the night sky, a potentially hazardous traffic jam in low-Earth orbit, and even ozone depletion. Copycat mega-constellations by other companies and countries will only multiply these concerns.
Now there’s a new reason to worry. According to a new study by Sierra Solter, megaconstellations could alter and weaken Earth’s magnetic field.
Solter is a graduate student at the University of Iceland, working on her PhD in plasma physics. She recently realized something overlooked by many senior colleagues: “More than 500,000 satellites are expected in decades ahead, primarily to build internet megaconstellations. Every satellite that goes up will eventually come down, disintegrating in Earth’s atmosphere. This will create a massive layer of conducting, electrically charged particles around our planet.”
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Metal debris from a single deorbited Starlink satellite is 7 million times more massive than the Van Allen Belts. An entire megaconstellation is billions of times more massive. These ratios point to a big problem.
“The space industry is adding enormous amounts of material to the magnetosphere in comparison to natural levels of particulate matter,” says Solter. “Due to the conductive nature of the satellite debris, this may perturb or change things.”
She might have something there–Earth’s magnetosphere does have a natural cycle which has been weakening for many decades (from before the space age), but electric plasma is a force of nature like no other and human activity in this domain could have massive consequences–unintended…or not. They are also spraying the lower atmosphere with conductive material.
Retired electrical engineering professor Donald E. Scott has a great book out: The Electric Sky
In the introduction he states that “96 % of the universe is not made up of “invisible matter” but rather of matter in the plasma state” (conductive). The field of plasma cosmology is probably the best place to start in contemplating the 96%, but cutting to the chase–ideas like black holes/the Big Bang/red shift=distance don’t look so good and are replaced by the model of planets/stars/galaxies being externally powered by Birkeland currents–high-intensity electrical flow through space along conduits of structured plasma.
If 7 billion people are removed from earth’s population via death and decomposition, as the globalists wish, how will the loss of that much mass and that many electrical machines, so to speak, affect the earth? How about the loss of all the flora and fauna that have gone extinct or had their populations drastically reduced, the transformation of underground minerals into above-ground buildings, and the removal and burning of underground fossil fuels? What about the addition of so many electric generation and transmission facilities? Maybe the total change in earth’s natural balance from, say, 1724 to 2024 is not insignificant in cosmic terms, given that we have radically changed the numbers and locations of all these things on earth’s surface?