SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on Astronomy

Re:SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on A... by hinkley on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @11:47AM (#24283523)

I thought this was going to be about collisions between satellites from two constellations.

As someone loudly lamented a long time ago: please stop using the word “impact” as a substitute for figuring out effect/affect.

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Re:SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on A... by reaperducer on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @12:06PM (#24283784)

As someone loudly lamented a long time ago: please stop using the word “impact” as a substitute for figuring out effect/affect.

"A long time ago" might be the 1700's, because it's been in use that way for several hundred years. So don't hold your breath.

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Re:SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on A... by hinkley on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @12:20PM (#24283948)

I’m this case it was within this century, which is quickly becoming a time before some participants here had learned to read. The older you get, the more the line between “long enough” and “a long time ago” begins to blur.

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Re:SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on A... by ziddoap on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @12:10PM (#24283828)

The title of the article is unambiguously not talking about collisions between satellites: "Impact of Satellite Constellations on Optical Astronomy[...]".

Many words have multiple definitions which require you to use context clues to figure out which definition applies.

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Re:SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on A... by hinkley on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @01:13PM (#24284589)

Except our title is

SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on Astronomy

and orbital debris does have serious consequences for astronomy.

So I'm still going to say: Phrasing!

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