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Unfortunately no such lights out policy would hide the visible pollution from the more arrogant companies intending to fill the sky with satellites, e.g. StarLi

• ddevault 6y ago
  The astronomy problems presented by StarLink are really overblown. It is of especially little relevance to the average person gazing up at the sky, who generally finds the parade of satellites pretty cool.
  • gamblor956 6y ago
    So light pollution is okay if it's cool? A lot of people love neon lights. Does that make neon lights an acceptable source of light pollution?
    • ddevault 6y ago
      There's a huge difference between an entire metropolitan mega-city like the US East Coast projecting billions of watts of light into the sky, and a thousand sattelites in the vastness of LEO which occasionally passing overhead for a few moments. They contribute to light pollution on scales removed from each other by several orders of magnitude.
• zamadatix 6y ago
  A lights out even would happen at night, not evening, so you'll have to find some other conversation to shoehorn this in to.