Starlink satellites do re-enter the atmosphere — that’s by design — but the alarming framing is misleading. The satellites are engineered to fully demise (burn up) on re-entry, leaving no fragments expected to reach the ground, and SpaceX deliberately de-orbits aging or failed units to keep low orbit clean. The probability of any person being struck by surviving debris is calculated to be vanishingly small, far lower than the background risk from the constant rain of natural meteoroids and decades of other space hardware. There have been no documented Starlink injuries. The legitimate kernel — that a large constellation requires responsible de-orbiting and design-for-demise — is exactly what Starlink’s low orbit and burn-up design address. “Falling out of the sky and going to hit someone” turns a controlled, engineered process into a phantom danger.