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>10k starlink satellites
We're just putting whatever we want in space now?
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>>16956342
I cant wait for Bezos satellites to start crashing into Musks. this shit gonna be funny
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>>16956342
>destroys earth based astronomy for amateurs and professionals alike just so thirdies get internet
can somebody put a buillet in this bald cunt already
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>>16956342
Anons in this thread (and apparently people in general) don't really understand how polluted the sky is already from existing satellites that this is a barely noticeable drop in the bucket.
Try using a telescope sometime for a couple hours a night and you'll start spotting all sorts of man-made orbital traffic and I doubt any of what you spot will even be starlink related.
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>>16956342
There are billion cars on the road. in a 2D plane on earth. In space with 3D space, you can put up billion satellites without issues. Its even easier since sats are following a static predictable path so everything can be calculated easily years in advance
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Random place, random time.
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>>16956681
There's not enough contrast to see them from the outside looking in, dumbass.
If you're looking down on the Sun-side of Earth, the Earth is as bright or brighter than the Starlinks so they get washed out.
If you're looking down on the night-side of Earth, the Starlinks aren't reflecting any light up so they're as dark as the Earth. In theory they could be observed by occlusion while passing over major planet-side light sources but too small to observe with the naked eye.
If you're on the ground in a place with relatively dark (black) skies all you have to do is get an app that tracks Starlinks and look up. They reflect Earthglow and light pollution back towards the ground so they're visible even to the naked eye despite being small (think how you can see the light from a flashlight at a distance even if you wouldn't normally be able to make out the flashlight itself from that far away).
I see Starlinks zip across my telescope's field all the time, even chased a few by hand for fun. They're incredibly annoying if you're trying to take a long-exposure image since they make ugly streaks in the picture.
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>>16957135
I love how retards think that the obvious explanation that is given and is known by everyone is just it and that's that.
You type forever and just say things that everyone knows.
Its not convincing.
The people "up there" don't do much to prove anything if it's really going on.
How many satellites before they are visible?
CIA can zoom in on a license plate from space. But we can't ever get a video of these things zipping around from a camera "up there"?
I have a celestron, pretty high dollar one. Auto zooms on whatever I want.
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>>16957230
Why would you assume 1 sattelite per launch?
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/462734-most-satelli tes-launched-on-a-single-rocket
SpaceX got the world record for most satellites launched on a single rocket at 143
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>>16956342
What's sad is brainlets like you who think 10k is a lot. Earth orbit is big. Starlink is in the lowest orbits that have lots of atmospheric drag and they decay quickly. The space trash risk is basically nil, first because the density is still extremely low, and second because any collision products deorbit even faster.
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>>16959389
I dunno why it is all these turdies are always like "we." There's no "we" in space, there's less than five countries with any relevance there at all and only one that's meaningfully capable right now.
There's not going to be a "we." You don't get a say. You might get to sit in a jumper chair and we'll pretend you're a real astronaut for a mission here or there. Your treaties and resolutions are pieces of paper.