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Re:SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on A... by mlindner on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:41PM (#24285757)
> Why are we allowing a private company to ruin the night sky for everybody, and by everybody, I mean literally everybody on this planet?

They're not being ruined for everybody. There's so many misinformed comments in this thread. These satellites aren't visible to the human eye generally.

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Re:SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on A... by kome on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @02:57PM (#24285924)
"generally" is the key: not long ago in northern Italy everybody was freaking out because of this:

https://cdn.dmove.it/images/18547/StarMain.jpg

Those are the ones by Starlinks. That's not acceptable.

They are so invisible to the naked eye, that the weather website gives you the exact time and date of their passage in the sky: http://www.meteoweb.eu/2020/05/passaggio-satelliti-starlink-... (in Italian)

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Re:SATCON1 Report on Impact of Satellite Constellations on A... by mlindner on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @03:32PM (#24286314)
1. That is only in the roughly week following launch, which doesn't harm anyone.

2. They changed operations immediately after launch and so you generally can't see this anymore.

They are indeed invisible after launch. Your article is from March, before changes were made. Try to find anyone taking pictures of them in that chain of pearls form in the last few months.

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