New satellites are messing up our night sky
To me, dark skies are one of the main benefits of boondocking in remote territory -- it's a lot of work to get there, but the stars are astonishing. So this article is depressing -- apparently, Elo...
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pianotuna wrote:
Phil,
The deorbit is why he wants to launch 42,000 of them over a period of years.
Don,
Will a satellite melt away from those low alttitudes when it falls ... or should our descendants plan on living under heavy duty titanium roofs?
(Don't get me started on whether or not mankind "absolutely needs" the Internet on a world scale in order to survive.)
