>>2178999>There will always be Tekapo and Oban.anon i don't thinnk you understand the gravity of the situation
Before starlink, you could just drive far away from a city or hope on a boat to escape light pollution. Seeing the milky way wasn't difficult at all even if you lived in a big city, though if you didn't put the effort to go and see it, you wouldn't appreciate how beautiful it is.
After starlink/amazon's plans to bring satellite internet with global coverage, there will no longer be any place free from a polluted sky. Since it's global coverage, it will always be there; there is no escape.
I see a lot of urbanites/millenials welcoming starlink like it's the next greatest thing, but they don't understand what they're giving up. That's because so many people have grown up and lived in light polluted cities and suburbs all their life that they've never seen the untained sky, which is why they're so willing to sully it further, since they don't appreciate how beautiful it is. The irony is these urbanites pushing for satellite internet already live in cities with great internet connections, and are the people who least stand to benefit from it.
