Well, that kind of sucks: https://www.engadget.com/science/space/a-potential-starlink-competitor-just-got-fcc-clearance-to-launch-4000-satellites-143905076.html

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@sundogplanets Starlink is terrible, but it has also opened the floodgates. With other private constellations, military constellations, and China, things are going to get unsustainably crowded above us.

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Each of these operators holds Kesslers syndrome over the heads of the rest of the earth.

@sundogplanets We're safe from ever being discovered by alien life. We'll just be referenced as "that galactic garbage dump".

@walfischbucht @sundogplanets hi

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I'm old enough to remember the first satellite. Sputnik, 1957.

I could tune my AM radio to hear it beep as it passed overhead.

We've had so much benefit from them, for communications and sensing.

70 years from proof of concept, through utility, to #enshittification.

@bonaventuresoft

@sundogplanets It's time to stop approving commercial satellite launches unless the applicants demonstrate the ability to remove each satellite from orbit in a way that isn't simply deorbiting the thing into the atmosphere.

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Tragic. ‍️

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these asshats are gonna block out the sun.

@sundogplanets the Kessler syndrome edges ever closer