Frankly, it’s depressing how one billionaire can fuck up the night sky for the rest of humanity and our collective ability to try to understand more about the universe.

The new generation of Starlink satellites create even more interference than the old ones.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4dnr8zemgo

#tech #space #starlink #spacex #elonmusk

Elon Musk's Starlink satellites 'blocking' view of the universe

Radio waves from the satellites are "blinding" radio telescopes and hurting research, say scientists.

@parismarx Incredibly unimpressed by the scare quotes. Ffs BBC.
@parismarx if it’s legal to put them up, is it also legal to shoot them down?
@parismarx It would be nice if the world figured out a way to schackle billionaires instead of having them puppeteer our governments.
SpaceX space junk crashed onto Saskatchewan farmland, highlighting a potential impending disaster

As the number of satellites and rocket launches increases, so does the amount of discarded rockets and components. This space junk risks falling to Earth, as it did in Saskatchewan this spring.

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Oh look, Starlink is continuing to screw up the sky in every way possible. "Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations" https://www.astron.nl/starlink-satellites/ It's going to be "hilarious" when Starlink messes up the radio sky so badly that radio astronomers can't even use quasars to calibrate GPS anymore. There are so many consequences from all these stupid, cheaply built, disposable satellites. https://www.universetoday.com/105160/navigating-the-cosmos-by-quasar/

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And in 1million years time or a billion years time when there are strange terminal #diseases worst than #cancer which is presently killing millions of #children & young #people today, not just the elderly, strange lung #infections and incurable/undiagnosable #epidemics & #pandemics etcetera, the same #demons #future #generations will turn to blaming #God, very funny.
They blame God for everything, but they are their own problem.
Horribly shallow #minds

@parismarx but they not alone. There are Indian/British backed equivalents in higher order and I guess many countries will want their own. Soon be looking like a game of space snooker up there
@parismarx it's wild to discourage the use of mobile phones and other transmitters close to these facilities and some random idiot can just launch stuff to space that directs a high gain antenna at the dishes.