Oddbean new post about login | logout @e38e83a6 it's very sad. I was sitting outside with my spouse last night to watch a Starlink train pass (her first) and I pointed out that as the train crossed paths with another satellite the odds were very high that the other sat was also a Starlink. Didn't realize the odds were that high😬
@7d839974 Almost all the satellites you can see with your eyes now are Starlinks. Nicely demonstrated in this awful/beautiful photo: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220614.html
@e38e83a6 @7d839974 There are other companies trying to launch their own large constellations of communications satellites, including OneWeb and Amazon Kuiper. Starlink is moving faster but not the only culprit.
@14969cc1 @7d839974 Astronomers are painfully aware of this fact https://planet4589.org/space/con/conlist.html
