Phil PlaitMar 6

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-growth-of-satellite-mega-constellations-could-ruin-the-night-sky/

Rampant growth of satellite mega constellations could ruin the night sky

Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Scientific American
Show threadAvacadoAvengerMar 6
@badastro I love my starlink and its a badly needed technology but there needs to be some limitations on constellation sizes and orbital paths.
Show threadDr. Juande Santander-VelaMar 6
@AvacadoAvenger @badastro it’s not a badly needed technology. What it is insane is that as a society we’ve made it cheaper to launch satellites to provide coverage rather than build 5G cellular capacity and/or fiber broadband…
Show threadAvacadoAvengerMar 6
@juandesant @badastro I'm going to argue with you that we need the ability to communicate on this planet. I live in a vast nation that has huge gaps in coverage that only a satellite constellation can address. We made nothing cheaper. Elon Musk did.
Show threadJulescelt

@AvacadoAvenger @juandesant @badastro I live in Colorado and in the mountains it is difficult to get coverage. Except there is satellite coverage in nearly 100% of those areas. Those satellites already exist.

In the 1990s I was using GPS to map vegetation in my job, rarely did I not get at least one satellite.

Coverage is dependent on orbital routes of the satellites, not the number of them.

Mar 6 at 6:37pmWeb