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Starlink is already wreaking havoc on the night sky for every part of the planet inhabited by humans and it is only going to get worse. Unfortunately this is n
by hnau 3y ago
Starlink is already wreaking havoc on the night sky for every part of the planet inhabited by humans and it is only going to get worse. Unfortunately this is not getting much attention from anywhere besides the astronomy community and they are largely ignored because their funding is dwarfed by venture capital funds.
- ben_w 3y agoThe main reason it's mostly astronomers who care and they're being ignored is that it's not even close to "havoc". I grew up near Portsmouth in the UK. Most nights, the stars were hidden by the kind of orange glow that a political cartoonist would use for Donald Trump's face, thanks to all the sodium vapour street lamps. Things are so much better than they used to be (also I've moved) but that childhood memory? Most don't even think of that as "havoc".
- ghaff 3y agoNo, they're ignored because people who can't otherwise get decent Internet want it.