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3,000 from Amazon, 10,000 already approved from SpaceX, who knows how many will go up from various companies in Europe, China, India, etc...

This is the beginning, not the end.



Yeah... still not enough. Millions probably wouldn't be enough. It's a really big sky.


Yup. Sattelites are roughly car sized. Think how many cars are on earth and yet cars aren’t covering the surface of the earth.

And earth orbit is an even bigger surface area.


Sounds like that plastics industry talking about disposal in the 1970's. Now look where we are.


Again... we're talking about an area bigger by orders of magnitude than that of the Earth itself, where plastic is still not covering the entire surface of the earth or the oceans.

This is simple math.

I know people here are emotionally fixated on their dystopian fantasies, particularly where Amazon is concerned, but no one is launching so many satellites that they will blot the sun and stars from the sky. Aside from probably being physically impossible, there's no practical reason for even launching that many satellites.

"Welcome to the dystopian future where no human anywhere on Earth can look up and see an authentic sky, as their ancestors did?" No... that's just silliness.


I don’t see the connection.




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