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Elon Musk's SpaceX launches controversial Starlink satellites

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2020 18:55:13 No.3744690 View View Reply Original Report

Have fun trying to do astrophotography with these fucking pieces of junk in the sky.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/spacex-launch-latest-starlink-elon-musk-b1071449.html

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2020 18:57:56 No.3744692 Report

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So not only the pajeets, but we'll have to deal with tyrone getting internet now too?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2020 19:28:40 No.3744708 Report

Quoted By: >>3744709 >>3744735

It's pretty bad. I live in the West and spend a lot of time in the desert, in protected "dark sky zones".

It's probably not even noticeable for urbanites but for anyone in a less-developed area without light pollution these things are a plague. You can see flybys all night. To be clear, it's not just starlink, but starlink is BY FAR the worst offender. There's nothing we can do about it either, so we just have to deal with spacejunk musk's bullshit..

Just wait until amazon launches their constellation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2020 19:30:29 No.3744709 Report

Quoted By: >>3744711 >>3744728

>>3744708
I think in 40 years conversations like these will be laughably quaint as we're bombarded every night with orbiting billboards and telecom satellites every three seconds.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2020 19:31:18 No.3744711 Report

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>>3744709
Sadly I think you're right.

Best advice I have is to get out there and enjoy the sky while you can.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2020 20:04:45 No.3744717 Report

Quoted By: >>3744992 >>3745150 >>3745247 >>3745264

>fast internet on every place on the planet implicating self driving ships, tranfser of knowledge and date
VS.
>some boomers who can't shoot the same picture of the night sky, which thousand of people already did

tough decision

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2020 20:37:09 No.3744728 Report

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>>3744709
If orbiting billboards become a thing I will devote my life to figuring out how to blow them out of the sky.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2020 20:51:18 No.3744735 Report

Quoted By: >>3744757

>>3744708
>being such a cuck that you can't afford space tourism and have to settle for looking at the stars from the ground like a peasant

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2020 21:49:58 No.3744757 Report

Quoted By: >>3744762 >>3744873 >>3746102

>>3744735
>space tourism
What the fuck are you even gonna do in space? It's empty. A huge disappointment, that's all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2020 21:56:30 No.3744762 Report

Quoted By: >>3744993

>>3744757
Pretty sure he's joking. Space tourism may come to be in our lifetime but a ticket to ride on the SpaceX Rocket Bus or Blue Origin Space Cruise is going to be hundreds of thousands of dollars, minimum.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Oct 2020 23:55:52 No.3744811 Report

Quoted By: >>3744866

Don't worry, satellites will be obsolete within 25 years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 01:46:55 No.3744866 Report

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>>3744811
Explain

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 01:57:49 No.3744873 Report

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>>3744757
>What the fuck are you even gonna do in space?
Jerk off, aim toward Earth's gravity well, rain your cum down at terminal velocity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 02:03:43 No.3744878 Report

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Yay! More space trash!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 10:08:28 No.3744992 Report

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>>3744717
nice strawman

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 10:14:16 No.3744993 Report

Quoted By: >>3744995

>>3744762
Air travel may come in our lifetimes but a ticket on the plane is going to be hundreds of thousands of dollars, minimum

-someone in 1905, probably

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 10:22:47 No.3744995 Report

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>>3744993
Nah, space travel is a completely different animal. A rocket is far, far more than just a plane that travels up and out of the atmosphere. Even if you made a space plane that takes off like a normal plane but then goes reeeeeally high, it's still not going to be cheap. Ultimately the people who are developing commercial space flight (Bezos and possibly Musk) are going to expect to make back the cost per flight by charging customers, and the customers are going to be of great wealth, it's going to be prohibitively expensive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 11:34:05 No.3745001 Report

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>>3744690
best astro pic i've seen, they're usually so boring

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 12:51:31 No.3745008 Report

Quoted By: >>3745020

>doing astro on anything less than a telescope with a motorized mount

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 13:15:19 No.3745011 Report

Quoted By: >>3745051 >>3745100

The wealthy elites will take astro photos from space while the plebs will only get to take photos of giant satellite blurs and giant advertisements. Also space trash randomly falling out of orbit on pleb houses. You think looking at the sky is free, fuckers?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 14:24:25 No.3745020 Report

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>>3745008
That doesn’t stop satellites bud.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 14:52:03 No.3745034 Report

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literally just integrate it out. take several pictures out of phase and form a difference image.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 15:11:17 No.3745051 Report

Quoted By: >>3745068 >>3745233

>>3745011
It's honestly entirely possible that in the future the cost to send a small satelite in orbit would be low enough where an amateur astronomer could be able to send his own astrophotography satelite into orbit like a mini hubble space telescope. More realistically tho universities would probably be the first to do it and offer time frames for students to use it, very similar to how observatories work right now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 16:08:28 No.3745068 Report

Quoted By: >>3745076

>>3745051
Or how about we don't have to rent time to look at the sky? I hate everything about this. There is nothing ok about putting 30,000 more ugly pieces of shit in the sky.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 16:23:51 No.3745076 Report

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>>3745068
I hate this as much as you anon, but I don't think this is going away or get any better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 16:59:34 No.3745100 Report

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>>3745011
Rich chink get annoyed and the CCP start shooting missile at the satellites

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 18:51:02 No.3745150 Report

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>>3744717
Fiber already exists is most first world countries, transfer of "knowledge" to places like africa is just a waste of time and energy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 21:38:32 No.3745233 Report

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>>3745051
My unknown German university already has a satellite (approx. 70x70x70cm) and a few tiny cubesats in space and is planning to add more.
They are designed, built and operated by students to a large degree.
All of them have sophisticated purposes though (communication experiments, earth observation, etc.), unlike Musk's we-can-only-use-it-when-we-add-ten-thousand-trash-cubes-more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 22:20:10 No.3745247 Report

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>>3744717
>implicating
You don't even know what that word means, Chang.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Oct 2020 22:42:34 No.3745264 Report

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>>3744717
>tranfser [sic!] of knowledge and date
I get the knowledge part if you mean up-to-date information. Books are a viable source of knowledge if the current year does not matter.
>tranfser of [...] date
Date is known using a calendar. It is usually easy to maintain this information anywhere on planet earth, even without an internet connection.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2020 05:30:33 No.3745490 Report

Quoted By: >>3745660

Are satellites really as bad as you guys are making out? I only see a few in the hour or so after the sun sets and it's usually just the ISS which is easy to plan around if you check its schedule. As long as you're shooting a couple of hours after dark it's not even really possible to see a satelite is it? Shouldn't they be in the earths shadow?

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2020 15:24:21 No.3745660 Report

Quoted By: >>3745922

>>3745490
I don't even take photos but
>Shouldn't they be in the Earth's shadow?
Just like how the moon is in the Earth's shadow and never appears at night?

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2020 22:03:20 No.3745922 Report

Quoted By: >>3745930

>>3745660
Most satellites orbit at like 400-800km away from a planet that is around 12,000km across. It seems to me that they would spend a lot of the night in the shadow but it has since occurred to me that people in the far north and south would see more.
>the moon
The moon is hundreds of times further away than most earth orbiting satellites and if they were at the moon's distance you wouldn't see them anyway. Absolute brainlet remark.

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Anonymous Tue 20 Oct 2020 22:12:34 No.3745930 Report

Quoted By: >>3746009

>>3745922
download stellarium tonight anon and see how many satelites you spot in 5 minutes. you'll be blown away.

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2020 00:35:34 No.3746009 Report

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>>3745930
I will check it out but I don't think I'm going to see shit at midnight here in the tropics. The satellites that I do see, disappear into the the eastern half of the sky from about 7-8pm.
I retract my original question though, knowing now that the answer is different relative to where you are. And I'm sorry to hear that satellites are shitting all over your sky up there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2020 02:29:57 No.3746078 Report

Quoted By: >>3746100

I'm sure AI will be able to detect these satellites and edit them out of photos automatically.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2020 03:09:03 No.3746097 Report

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Reminder: Elon Musk is a real life James Bond supervillain.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2020 03:11:49 No.3746100 Report

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>>3746078
Why even bother taking a photo of the stars then? AI already knows where they are and can include them in your picture automatically.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2020 03:14:03 No.3746102 Report

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>>3744757
>bring hoes
>hit their g spot in zero g

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Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2020 04:00:42 No.3746113 Report

Quoted By: >>3746115 >>3746117 >>3746521

Just to give an idea, this was a 20 second exposure.

top 2 circles might be the same satellite but also possibly a cluster.

Yellow is a shooting star (you can see the green hue from burning up in the atmosphere)

So possibly 3 satellites in a 20 second shot. I'm on the 46th Parallel

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2020 04:02:00 No.3746115 Report

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>>3746113
I actually missed one top left, so that's 4 satelites

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2020 04:03:55 No.3746117 Report

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>>3746113
Wow, that's awful

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 21 Oct 2020 23:30:52 No.3746521 Report

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>>3746113
Yuck.

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