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https://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-42000-starlink-satellites-earth-effects-stars-2020-10

Everything the media does is exaggerated bullshit. Not a defense of Musk but a defense of reality here. Yes 42,000 satellites sounds like a lot but the graphics in this are laughable and ignore scale.

It is a BIG ASS SKY folks. The area discussed is larger then the earth's surface, much larger as that is how expanding spheres work.

How many cars are there in Dallas or Atlanta? They make it like the planet will be surrounded by a swarm that has almost no openings.

Take anything on earth we have a lot of and use it to draw an analogy in your mind about how much space vs. stuff we are talking about here. There are 330+ million people in the US but there are places you can walk for days and see no one.

We have 1.1 million commercial cargo trucks on the road in the US. Just think about this vs. the land area then consider the sheer size of the sphere area 200 miles above the planet.

Thousands of satellites in orbit is honestly nothing. The graphics in this are about as legitimate as the death counters in real time were on the news when CoVaids was being hyped hard. And of course now we are all going to die due to an astroid impact due to StarLink.

There is risk in all this but as always it isn't the risk they are talking about. Once again the pretty lady distracts from what the magician is really up to.

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𝖋𝖎𝖆𝖙𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖗 (¯`◕‿◕´¯) 2y ago

Why is it easier to blast your data to space and then blast it back down to a receiver?

Jack Spirko 2y ago

It isn't the key is hitting a target or being hit as a target.

serenitys forge 2y ago

Up and back down is a shorter distance than across.

Also, we live on a curved surface so point to point is very very very short range.

radixrat 2y ago

Not enough clicks unless you distort the truth, although I prefer the sky to be clear from enjoying the outdoors perspective it is going to be a game changer for people who want to live off grid or even in rural areas.

Art By Leigh Murphy 2y ago

I do remember sitting outside and watching a trail of tiny lit dots stream across the night sky after a Starlink launch awhile ago. They reminded me of a line of car headlights on a faraway road at night. Not aesthetically ideal, but not a big deal either.

Mike Forsman 2y ago

This report is very old, 2021. I’m glad that Starlink exits. I put myself on the wait list when it was first announced, I’ve been using it now for over 18 months. It has progressively gotten better and better. I live N.E. of McKinney TX out in the rural area of Collin county and I really didn’t have good options for internet.

What the BS media left out of this discussion includes that the number of satellites is the total number that they are licensed to fly, not the number that will be in orbit at any one time.

They also left out that the Starlink satellites are designed to deorbit. So most of those will deorbit when they get to end of service life. There may be an occasional satellite that experiences a catastrophic failure that prevents it from deorbiting but that will be the exception.

Also these satellites are in low earth orbit which means that they more quickly will deorbit from gravity in the event one does not perform an deorbit maneuver.

The only thing you and trust about the main stream media is that it is either not true, or has some basis of truth and is slanted to drive a bias.

Sam0331 2y ago

If I did the math right, 42,000 satellites at 300 miles (the middle of the range stated in the video) is 1 per 5,500 square miles.