Prof. Sam LawlerMar 13, 2024

There are currently 5,591 Starlink satellites in orbit, launched in the last 5 years https://planet4589.org/space/con/conlist.html

There are 5,595 known exoplanets https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/ discovered in the last 30 years

Starlink is about to have more sats in orbit than known exoplanets, and with each launch, make it harder to do astronomy research

Imagine what astronomy (or any part of science) could do with the shittons of money that have been spent on occupying (and likely soon destroying) low earth orbit?

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Show threaddonald harvey kimberlin II

@sundogplanets ground based visual astronomy is obsolete.

Better plan is to get more high earth orbit, lagrange, and equilateral telescopes out there to do good science without the handicaps of operating at the bottom of a gravity well through an ocean of atmospheric interferance.

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Show threadIngmar RiegerMar 14, 2024
@errhead @sundogplanets For research that might be true. But then there is still the point that the view of the sky is destroyed for everyone on this world. It got so annoying now looking at the night sky and seeing all this „we make them darker“ objects!