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| Elon Musk's satellites litter the heavens as astonishing video shows how 5,000 Starlink aircraft are whizzing around the Earth and 'will soon outnumber the stars' |
| 2023-09-30 |
| [Daily Mail, where America get its news] Where's that CME? Hey, he's blocking global warming! |
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| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-09-30 13:41 |
| #7 "Billions and billions" - Carl Sagan |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-30 13:13 |
| #6 Call it semantics, but the number of stars visible to the naked eye from Earth is not that large a number compared to "the number of stars" in the observable Universe, which can only be very roughly estimated. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-09-30 11:45 |
| #5 Daily Mail, where the people working there think there can only be a maximum of 5 Stars. Already had my sunsets ruined from windmills, so if we are going to shit the stars, can we at least get Super Mario figures, make it look like a Rainbow Road course race? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-09-30 11:42 |
| #4 'will soon outnumber the stars' Uh huh. Science much? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-09-30 11:32 |
| #3 Once the trains get distributed, the satellites re-orient themselves to be less reflective. |
| Posted by: KBK 2023-09-30 09:40 |
| #2 Some of the newer ones. Of course, older ones already up there will be as optically visible as ever until they de-orbit. Seems astronomers are underwhelmed by the effort so far. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-09-30 09:03 |
| #1 Saw a row of 25 pass over just north of Mason Ohio recently. Thought they were painting them black now. |
| Posted by: Xyz 2023-09-30 08:58 |