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Prof. Sam Lawler Jun 24, 2024

Worst part of updating my talk: looking up how fucking many more Starlink satellites there were than last time I gave a version of this talk. 200 more than a month ago. Fuck.

There are now 6,209 Starlinks in orbit, fully 62% of the 10,009 active satellites in orbit.

All of these "fully demisable" Starlinks are planned to burn up and deposit their metal in Earth's atmosphere. I just saw multiple 100-pound pieces of another SpaceX "fully demisable" rocket, so I'm sure it'll be just fine.

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@sundogplanets "don't worry about all of these minor inconveniences, we need to support a company privately owned by an openly fascist billionaire to become a monopoly so that telco cartel can be put on notice and rural folks can have low latency higher speed internet so they can be liberated from their 'backwards' mindsets & vote for Biden and there is nothing insane about making a supposed enemy of your enemy way more powerful" - spaceX (definitely not daddy Elon) loving weird nerds.