Just need to scream a little bit about how there are actually hard limits to how much stuff we can have in orbit without severe consequences! It's ok to say that out loud, even if the techbros don't want to hear it!
It's ok (and vitally important) to have in your list of recommendations for satellites operators "Don't launch so many satellites." This is really pretty key to not destroying the night sky, LEO, and/or the atmosphere.
@sundogplanets Thanks, Sam, for making some noise about this. It's hard to be so right, but so unheard, about something going so wrong, isn't it? These are the early days of the usual boom/bust/catastrophe cycle that underlies so much of what ails us. If people understood the scale of the problems this satellite surge might create, particularly to atmospheric ozone...
But that's true of so much else.
FYI, here's my take on this story, more literary than technical: https://jasonanthony.substack.com/p/the-sky-is-falling
Prof. Sam Lawler
Jason Anthony