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back to Boeing
I’m all for the advancement of life and knowledge on this blue marble. And the internet is a powerful tool for knowledge. But are we going too far???
FWIW these satellites are starting to P off many astronomers, both amateur and professional...
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlin...ervations.html
When the company launched its first set of Starlink internet satellites in May, those with their eyes attuned to the night sky immediately realized that the objects were incredibly bright.
Professional astronomers worried the satellites would interfere with scientific observations and amateur appreciation of the stars."That first few nights, it was like, 'Holy not-publishable-word,'" Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Space.com. "That kind of
was the wake-up call."
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/1...ight-pollution
https://globalmeteornetwork.org/?author=1