juliank
josefcool that in 2023 we have the technology for me to pull out my phone and point it up at the night sky and see labels for all the wonderful celestial objects out there right now such as STARLINK-3716, STARLINK-8755, STARLINK-1644, STARLINK-5244, STARLINK-6152, STARLINK-7361, STARLINK-1672, STARLINK-1739, STARLINK-5123, STARLINK-6321, STARLINK-7551, STARLINK-1540, STARLINK-1527, STARLINK-8223, STARLINK-2311, STARLINK-3080, STARLINK-3130, STARLINK-6581, STARLINK-8580, STARLINK-7001, STARLINK-5150,
Jyrki 
@jk this reads like a bunch of unresolved JIRA issues
endrift 🏳️⚧️
That Darn Saucy Moose 🔞
Noxy 🐾🏳️🌈
RobCornelius
EVHaste
Shawn Hooper (he/him)
C_Chell@jk Beautiful stars, I suppose ... :D
fops Now On Merping Synth Download@jk "what are those 'point to point radio links'? what do you mean cell towers? fiber optic cables? naaahhhh why dont we just fill low earth orbit with limited service life junk"
Justin Derrick@chfour @jk The dumb irony is that in most places, terrestrial radio or cell towers are cost prohibitive. How can it possibly be that putting 12,000 satellites into orbit is the most cost-effective manoeuvre?
I’ve got friends that use it because it’s the best service available - their options are $400/month 4G, or 3Mbps DSL for $50. Given those choices, $160/month for 100Mbit Satellite seems great.
Alan@JustinDerrick @chfour @jk It's like $70/mo where I live after they dropped the prices last year. We're getting fiber (maybe? next year? I hope?) and the only other option to bridge the year long gap was getting copper (which we'd never use again once fiber is ready) for $800 plus $50/mo or so. I hate Starlink but it was the best option and if that space trash is polluting my sky the least it can do is give me Wi-Fi.
Maggieci democracy enjoyer@jk and tons more to come
Ding wagon@jk was the technology invented before all the starlings came up? That stinks
John Chivall@jk Musk really does have the reverse Midas touch
Brian Danger Hicks@jk On the plus side, with the ultra low orbit that they need to get halfway decent latency, atmospheric drag causes them to get pulled into the Earth's atmosphere and burn up within 5 years or so. Will burning up thousands of satellites in the atmosphere yearly cause any sort of problems? Don't worry about it.
Michael ☕️@ckape @jk
The extra, high-altitude particles will create water vapor droplet nuclei that will increase reflection of sunlight back into space, so it's going to fight #GlobalWarming! So... winning? /s
The extra, high-altitude particles will create water vapor droplet nuclei that will increase reflection of sunlight back into space, so it's going to fight #GlobalWarming! So... winning? /s
Richard@jk it's the arrow constellation, where all the stars form a straight line soaring through the sky.
Eric Puryear@jk what app?
Jim CampbellPure vandalism!
Cameron@jk the last one is dedicated to Van Halen content.
JacksonBates@jk
"I don't care, I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me."
Musk: hold my beer
AT-AT Assault 🏳️⚧️I fear when they start crashing into other stuff. Starlink doubled or tripled the amount of sats up there, and the more sats there are, the easier for a chain reaction of destruction to happen. And if that happens, nothing can safely leave Earth Orbit for thousands of years.
C.Suthorn 
That‘s the plan: the rubble will darken earth and the climate will cool down. Hail Elon.
Radiohead addict'd 
DavidB 🍥@ianbobmorris @jk @adrienne Until the Ukrainian army got its access to the internet cut right in the middle of combat, because Musk Inc Technologies work until they don't work.
@DavidB @jk @adrienne @ianbobmorris Well, they work. I think in that case it was a geofencing issue because the service didn't extend to an occupied territory, though I'm not sure if that is just a cover story to hide incompetence.
@ln @jk @adrienne @ianbobmorris
"I'm not sure if that is just a cover story to hide incompetence."
We may have the right answer here...
"I'm not sure if that is just a cover story to hide incompetence."
We may have the right answer here...
Roadskater, Ph.D.@jk Was thinking something very similar just a few days ago when I was trying to identify a star. Slightest tap in the wrong place on the iPhone screen and, "Oh, F! Another satellite."
Local@jk the people hundred years ago were not able to see them.
Tom Ritchford@jk And the worst is this - eight billion people on the planet have to look at these, but none of us got to participate in the decision of whether to do it.
sila@jk ajjahshhshsjj
@jk Not gonna lie, I kinda hope that Russia or North Korea shoots them down one of these days (not too far away in the future, please)
Artyom Petrov 
@jk What's Kessler Syndrome
K4mpfie@jk Recently I was overfilled with joy when one of those things flying over was just some discarded rocket parts not yet another Starlink satellite
cetan@jk what goes up must come down
Nick
Nina Felwitch 
@jk Allowing this garbage into orbit was a huge mistake and we should shoot every single one of these fuckers down.
Austin Godber@jk ah, the majesty of nature
Jari GustafssonPlease hackers, change them to #spacejunk
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ@jk LOL (not :-( )
Allusion
Doodlewolfdude@jk
Which app did you use to get this info?
Which app did you use to get this info?
🏳️⚧️ Owyn@jk As a planetary geologist (think geology+astronomy), it truly drives me up the wall.
Pango@jk the Child constellation, right?
idlestate's SDF liason acctLast boost:
a family member talked about seeing a "shooting star" and I didn't have the heart to tell them what it probably was
Lorq Von Ray@jk And it's not even good service anymore...
Kevin Karhan 
@jk But #IridiumFlares were considered bad...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU48qn-iJ0I
Oh well...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare#Iridium_flares
A Final #Flarewell
Seventeenth Magpie@jk love me some starlink-1527, gotta be one of my favourite sources of light pollution 😔
Asiny@jk hahaha
polprog68k@jk the starlinks in the sky are free, you can deorbit them into your back yard
★ Amy Star ★
★ Amy Star ★ (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 video the easiest way to become radicalized about astronomy is to open a stargazing app and to make it highlight Starlink satellites
Nfoonf
Avi Rappoport (avirr)@sundogplanets relevant to your interests
Ambient Sponge@jk They are nothing more than another form of pollution.