Starlink - A Very Bad Idea

audioluvr
audioluvr Posts: 5,601
edited May 2021 in The Clubhouse
Elon Musks Starlink, that I just discovered today, is going to open the floodgates to the greatest travisty in human history IMHO. Anyone who has ever enjoyed stargazing will soon have to enjoy 30,000 to 60,000 satellites whizzing around overhead instead. Maybe that's why he needs us to populate Mars. Starlink will make it much more difficult for observatories to locate ELE asteroids.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacexs-dark-satellites-are-still-too-bright-for-astronomers/

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,570
    Just think of the traffic jam or playing chicken with all those while trying to get to the moon and back.
    17,500mph game of chicken..
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,648
    edited May 2021
    WTH do we need 30,000 to 60,000 satellites for!?!
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    edited May 2021
    Then there's the possibility of competitors wanting to do the same to stay... well, competitive.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,905
    F1nut wrote: »
    WTH do we need 30,000 to 60,000 satellites for!?!

    the idea is small, cheap satellites in near-earth orbit. Unlike geosynchronous satellites, (which stay in one place over the earth, by orbiting at just the right distance -- ca. 23kmiles "up"), these little, low-orbit satellites will "move" relative to the ground. it takes... whatever... 30k or 60k of 'em to ensure that the whole web of 'em can wiggle around and not drop data for the paying customers. I guess it's a lot cheaper to put something 100 or 200 or whatever miles up than 23,000 miles up.

    They;ve been launchin' 'em like popcorn for a coupla years now. It's an ego-driven catastrophe.
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    This is what I saw this morning. I love the 3rd comment where the guy says "Someday our kids will say, “remember when there wasn’t a bunch of ship in the sky?”"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgysWWwESfU
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,305
    China with will be launching more space garbage soon. They will build and provide cheaper making our space garabage ulta trash
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,272
    That would drive me insane. Why aren't they evenly spaced??? THEY HAVE TO BE EVENLY SPACED!
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,648
    audioluvr wrote: »
    This is what I saw this morning. I love the 3rd comment where the guy says "Someday our kids will say, “remember when there wasn’t a bunch of ship in the sky?”"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgysWWwESfU

    That's seriously f'd up!!!
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,570
    Hermitism wrote: »
    That would drive me insane. Why aren't they evenly spaced??? THEY HAVE TO BE EVENLY SPACED!

    They were but aliens ate a couple...
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    edited May 2021
    Approved by the FCC. Really? So any idiot with a billion dollars can apply and get approval for 30,000 space junk objects to be placed in orbit. Awesome.

    Edit: No offense to the billionaires on this forum...

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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,305
    Time to save your money for one of these

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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,130
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Hermitism wrote: »
    That would drive me insane. Why aren't they evenly spaced??? THEY HAVE TO BE EVENLY SPACED!

    They were but aliens ate a couple...
    Alien Pacmen say Waka Waka
    I disabled signatures.
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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,591
    edited May 2021
    I've seen them once. Was shortly after sunset. Space X has already addressed the sunlight reflection. In later sats. I think they only way they are viewed like the video above is just prior to sunrise and just after sunset.

    I think it was last year we (Kennedy Space Center, I live near by) had 3 launches in 1 week.

    I've looked at what starlink is offering, not that impressive price to performance, unless you live in BFE and have no other choice for internet.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,787
    I was thinking of vacationing in BFE.
    Good to know that I'll be able to still log into P from there. :)
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  • muncybob
    muncybob Posts: 3,057
    Apparently we live in BFE and our dsl speeds are turtle like. Neighbor got this system but has yet to install. While I would love to have faster speeds it seems a lot of upfront $$(and not exactly cheap thereafter) and you have to install yourself.

    I also have a problem with the proposed 40,000+ things they want to orbit. Isn't there enough junk up there already? Keep looking up Saturday!
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,856
    they dont talk much about the lasers built into each one ;)
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,981
    audioluvr wrote: »
    Then there's the possibility of competitors wanting to do the same to stay... well, competitive.

    I dunno...my first question would be....why so many sats for communication ? We have some now doing fine. Which leads up to the second question, are we sure all those sats are just for communications/entertainment/internet ? Third question...would they even tell you if they weren't ?

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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,591
    edited May 2021
    Maybe its a Planetary Defense System like the ARC-NET in Men in Black. :D

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  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,591
    https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/1/7/21003272/space-x-starlink-astronomy-light-pollution
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,856
    CH46E wrote: »
    Maybe its a Planetary Defense System like the ARC-NET in Men in Black. :D

    yiorrxfybbxa.jpg

    oh its way beyond that......lol
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    CH46E wrote: »
    https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/1/7/21003272/space-x-starlink-astronomy-light-pollution

    Ugh...

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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,210
    audioluvr wrote: »

    Edit: No offense to the billionaires on this forum...

    None taken.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,447
    audioluvr wrote: »
    Edit: No offense to the billionaires on this forum...

    Wait... we're not All billionaires on this forum? When did they start letting all these low-life's in here?
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,570
    Ppssst....
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