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A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth (news.ubc.ca)

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[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 32 points 7 hours ago

They did a previous study on what 65,000 satellites would look like and that was pretty bleak. Also this bit:

Latitudes near 50° Will Experience the Worst Light Pollution.

Thats a large chunk of Europe.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 hours ago

Maybe it's time to crowdsource a satellite killing satellite.

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago

Now we just need to invent the Wall-E bot... We're getting so close!

[+] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca -25 points 6 hours ago (9 children)

This conversation is a waste of time no matter how much of a nazi Elon is.

This is what the sky would be like in the majority of science fiction. If you want space exploration, there will be space infrastructure, and as time goes on that infrastructure will increase both in amount and size, not to mention the traffic to and from.

It is like complaining about the clutter of the marina while wanting to explore the ocean.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

People want houses, that doesn't mean they want forests clear cut.

Similarly people want space exploration, that doesn't mean they want to speedrun Kessler syndrome.

The infrastructure isn't the only issue here. Its the fact that this is being done by a corporation owned by a nazi, with many other companies looking to compete. So instead of having one set of LEO satellites, we'll have several.

If this was actually used to benefit humanity the light pollution caused by this would be understandable and minimized. But this isn't being done in a sustainable way, or owned by the people.

And that's all before considering the detrement to the environment from these satellites constantly burning up in the upper atmosphere.

And with all that said, this isn't space exploration, and it isnt the type of space infrastructure that would aid exploration. Actual exploration doesn't need thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of these tiny satellites aimed only at Earth.

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

for everyone on Earth

The people that are doing the actual space exploration aren't even effected by it!

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

If all we pick up out of the ocean is flotsam from the marina we’ll get the wrong idea about what’s in the ocean.

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