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Re:What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars? by reaperducer on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:57PM (#25971839)
What's more important, pretty long exposure pictures taken from Earth or internet access?

If that's all you think is lost, then you are apparently not a scholar of history, archaeology, philosophy, literature, or anthropology.

Moreover, just because -you- don't value something doesn't mean it has no value.

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Re:What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars? by jimmaswell on Saturday January 30, 2021 @02:25PM (#25972089)
The Starlink issue is only relevant to streaks on long exposure pictures. You can't see it with the naked eye. The ship has long sailed on general light pollution near urban centers. Nice if it can be reversed but going to unreasonable lengths to preserve everything how it was in the past is reminiscent of people who cover their furniture in plastic.
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Re:What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars? by reaperducer on Saturday January 30, 2021 @02:51PM (#25972340)
going to unreasonable lengths to preserve everything how it was in the past is reminiscent of people who cover their furniture in plastic.

Your comment is reminiscent of ageism.

It's also disingenuous to frame this as a "Starlink" problem. It's a Starlink problem plus the 13 other companies also trying to put 50,000 microsats in orbit, plus the 200 companies that will do it after them when prices come down.

In a couple of decades, we end up with millions of microsats in orbit, and by then there's nothing that can be done.

But as long as we can beam social media misinformation into the most remote corners of the planet, heaven and nature be damned.

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Re:What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars? by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa on Saturday January 30, 2021 @05:09PM (#25973488)
> You can't see it with the naked eye

Maybe not where you live. But in dark places it's really ease to spot them.

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Re:What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars? by midasuni on Saturday January 30, 2021 @07:14PM (#25974395)
When they first launch sure. Not so much at magnitude 6.
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Re:What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars? by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday January 30, 2021 @02:30PM (#25972137)
"The ship has long sailed on general CO2 emissions from industrial societies. Nice if it can be reversed but going to unreasonable lengths to preserve everything how it was in the past is reminiscent of people who cover their furniture with plastic."

I wonder if you have this opinion also?

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