<![CDATA[Why Starlink satellites are a serious problem (and one million of them would be ruinous): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-growth-of-satellite-mega-constellations-could-ruin-the-night-sky/]]>Why Starlink satellites are a serious problem (and one million of them would be ruinous): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-growth-of-satellite-mega-constellations-could-ruin-the-night-sky/

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/a159dd47-94fe-4da9-ae35-cbf2641ced6c/why-starlink-satellites-are-a-serious-problem-and-one-million-of-them-would-be-ruinous-https-www.scientificamerican.com-article-rampant-growth-of-satellite-mega-constellations-could-ruin-the-night-skyRSS for NodeMon, 06 Apr 2026 06:22:04 GMTWed, 11 Mar 2026 08:03:04 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Why Starlink satellites are a serious problem (and one million of them would be ruinous): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-growth-of-satellite-mega-constellations-could-ruin-the-night-sky/ on Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:58:25 GMT]]>@stancarey first of all, i agree. It's horrible and humanity shouldn't be giving free reign to this sort of activity. In better news, the likelihood that the company succeeds long term with active control of these things in our political climate is quite low. With that in mind, based on the most conservative statistics I could find, in 10 years 75% of those satellites will have burned up in atmosphere, and over 99% in 25 years. Those timelines could be much shorter. That's the slowest model.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tilde.zone/users/tomasino/statuses/116209713521371419https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tilde.zone/users/tomasino/statuses/116209713521371419Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:58:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why Starlink satellites are a serious problem (and one million of them would be ruinous): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-growth-of-satellite-mega-constellations-could-ruin-the-night-sky/ on Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:05:07 GMT]]>I'm also struck by the writer's horror that data centres consume 4% of the US's annual electricity usage. They consume *over 21%* of Ireland's. The EU average is 3%.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/stancarey/statuses/116209503957246924https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/stancarey/statuses/116209503957246924Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:05:07 GMT