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Prof. Sam Lawler Jul 6, 2023

Apparently even though the online poster session for the ALAN light pollution conference isn't for 2 weeks, I have to get my poster uploaded by tomorrow.

Which means I get to spend ALL DAY frantically putting together a poster on satellite pollution and stewing about how much I HATE Starlink. I am going to need to smash something very badly when I'm done with this poster...

Prof. Sam Lawler Jul 6, 2023

Just so we're all on the same page, there are currently 4,365 Starlink satellites, out of 8,111 total satellites in orbit (Starlink is 54% of all satellites - I sincerely hope they don't fuck up any of the collision avoidance maneuvers they do every single day...)

Prof. Sam Lawler Jul 6, 2023

Hey billionaires, I found your satellites. They're right here, fucking up my telescope data.

Brett Sheffield (he/him)

@sundogplanets Be nice if we could tax the owners of those objects over their lifetime and have it fund the science they're disrupting.

Biggles 20X6!Jul 6, 2023

@dentangle @sundogplanets it would be nicer if they all went deep sea exploring instead of sending trash to space

Simon Brooke Jul 7, 2023

@Taco_lad @dentangle @sundogplanets It would be nicer still if they all took themselves off to Mars without enough fuel to come back.

Biggles 20X6!Jul 7, 2023

@simon_brooke @dentangle @sundogplanets and leave a mess on Mars? Untouched by living humans?
Let the deep have its revenge

…might work for coffee…Jul 6, 2023

@dentangle @sundogplanets

we got something new about them
https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2023/8

New radio astronomical observations confirm unintended electromagnetic radiation emanating from large satellite constellations

2xfo Jul 6, 2023

@mwfc @dentangle @sundogplanets

TIL Starlink accounts for more than half of all satellites already. 🤯

…might work for coffee…Jul 7, 2023

They want 40k, and have a lifetime of 5 years iirc.

Oh and someone wants to copy them iirc.

@dentangle @sundogplanets