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2023-09-30 Science & Technology

Elon Musk's satellites litter the heavens as astonishing video shows how 5,000 Starlink aircraft are whizzing around the Earth and 'will soon outnumber the stars'

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Saw a row of 25 pass over just north of Mason Ohio recently. Thought they were painting them black now.

Posted by Xyz 2023-09-30 08:58|| 2023-09-30 08:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Some of the newer ones. Of course, older ones already up there will be as optically visible as ever until they de-orbit. Seems astronomers are underwhelmed by the effort so far.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-30 09:03|| 2023-09-30 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Once the trains get distributed, the satellites re-orient themselves to be less reflective.

Posted by KBK 2023-09-30 09:40|| 2023-09-30 09:40|| Front Page Top

#4 'will soon outnumber the stars'

Uh huh. Science much?

Posted by Frank G 2023-09-30 11:32|| 2023-09-30 11:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Daily Mail, where the people working there think there can only be a maximum of 5 Stars.

Already had my sunsets ruined from windmills, so if we are going to shit the stars, can we at least get Super Mario figures, make it look like a Rainbow Road course race?

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-09-30 11:42|| 2023-09-30 11:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Call it semantics, but the number of stars visible to the naked eye from Earth is not that large a number compared to "the number of stars" in the observable Universe, which can only be very roughly estimated.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-30 11:45|| 2023-09-30 11:45|| Front Page Top

#7 "Billions and billions" - Carl Sagan

Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-30 13:13|| 2023-09-30 13:13|| Front Page Top

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-30 13:41|| 2023-09-30 13:41|| Front Page Top

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