Good morning. Starlink has now launched more than TEN THOUSAND satellites into orbit. Nearly 1400 have already been burned up in the atmosphere so far.

Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour stacked exposure from CFHT. This was from 2022, when there were thousands fewer satellites... This is dumb.

Image credit: P. Cowan/W. Fraser/S. Lawler/CLASSY Survey Team

(The small streaks that are similar lengths are actually asteroids!)

@sundogplanets Can a tipping point yet be calculated, or are there too many variables?

@kimlockhartga Which tipping point? Kessler Syndrome? Loss of data? Ozone depletion? Planes getting hit by space junk? ha ha...

There are so many...

@sundogplanets You're right. I had not thought through all of the potential consequences.