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A comment on SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on Astronomy. Parent comment

Re:SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on A... by ideals on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @12:22PM (#24283964)
Follow on comment, what are indigenous tribes who aren't part of our connected world going to interpret this change as? I'm thinking about groups of people like the Sentinelese.
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Re:SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on A... by mlindner on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @06:09PM (#24287870)
People appear to be downvoting my other comment so much that I can't even edit it so reposting again. Indigenous tribes won't have an issue with it as they don't have superhuman eyes to see 7th magnitude objects in the night sky. The satellites are not generally visible to the naked eye after changes SpaceX has made to the operations of the satellites and physical modifications to the satellites themselves.

https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-update-04-28-2020/

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Re:SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on A... by mlindner on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:31PM (#24285642)
The indigenous tribes won't be able to see them so it has zero effect on them.
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