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I guess my children will never see the night sky without tens of satellites flying through it. Irrespective of who wins the space war, I’m sad about that.
And the ads haven’t even showed up in the night sky yet! It’s going to be much sadder once we start seeing McDonald’s ads wherever and whenever we look up.
It will be what pushes me over the edge to create a rogue space program just to bring that atrocity down.
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And the ads haven’t even showed up in the night sky yet! It’s going to be much sadder once we start seeing McDonald’s ads wherever and whenever we look up.
Do not frame this as inevitable, I refuse to accept that. It will be what pushes me over the edge to create a rogue space program just to bring that atrocity down.
I guess my children will never see the night sky without tens of satellites flying through it. Irrespective of who wins the space war, I’m sad about that.
I'm sad my grandparents never got to see the sky without a bunch of satellites flying through it. Even more sad they never experienced the benefits.
I guess my children will never see the night sky without tens of satellites flying through it. Irrespective of who wins the space war, I’m sad about that.
You only see satellites when the sun has recently set, when a few hundred kilometers up is still in sunlight. The rest of the night you don’t see satellites at all. It’s not great that there are satellites visible for an hour or so after sunset, but it’s not like you’ll never see the night sky again.
I guess my children will never see the night sky without tens of satellites flying through it. Irrespective of who wins the space war, I’m sad about that.
Your children will fly to space and see the sky above the satellites, how about that?
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I don't use the damn satellites and I miss the version of the sky I did use. The sats are so damn distracting when you're just stargazing. Space used to be the last place we could (mostly) gaze beyond the reach of man. From here on out it's the human circus, 24/7.
There's been visible satellites in the sky literally my entire life. And airplanes. The newer generation of satellites (whether Starlink or Iridium's replacement satellites) are significantly less bright and less disruptive, not more, though they are still swamped by airplanes in less remote places.
They're bright, they move quickly, and there are loads of them. It's like having one of the last peaceful things you can do plastered with the equivalent of full-motion banner ads for Earth bullshit.
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I don't use the damn satellites and I miss the version of the sky I did use. The sats are so damn distracting when you're just stargazing. Space used to be the last place we could (mostly) gaze beyond the reach of man. From here on out it's the human circus, 24/7.
There's been visible satellites in the sky literally my entire life. And airplanes. The newer generation of satellites (whether Starlink or Iridium's replacement satellites) are significantly less bright and less disruptive, not more, though they are still swamped by airplanes in less remote places.
I didn't know 3 years olds were on HN :)
Seriously though, there is a difference between a satellite or an asteroid showing up every 15 minutes and a sky with a few satellites at all times.
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You only see satellites when the sun has recently set, when a few hundred kilometers up is still in sunlight. The rest of the night you don’t see satellites at all. It’s not great that there are satellites visible for an hour or so after sunset, but it’s not like you’ll never see the night sky again.
You do get to see them as white fast moving dots at night though. It doesn’t bother be personally but I can see people having issues with that.
The later it gets, the higher the satellite would have to be to still be in the sun. The vast, vast majority of them are low enough that this is not significantly long after sunset. The rest are so high up that you won’t really see them anyway (and don’t move significantly fast across the sky, because orbit is slower the higher you go.)
You essentially don’t see satellites at all in the middle of the night.