I've got family coming to visit today (YAY) but that means I need to do a whole bunch of cleaning and organizing, including freezing/dehydrating a bunch of veggies I picked yesterday, I need to send off 2 letters for review for the American Astronomical Society to officially comment on stupid things that are proposed to happen in orbit, do a little bit of writing, and the goats are insistent that I need to move the fence to new grass today.
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I tried making a plot to sort of demonstrate crowding in orbit that would be caused by the 5 companies that have now asked for tens to hundreds of thousands of satellites on sun-synchronous terminator orbits. I wanted to show equator-to-pole, but there's so damn many satellites in all of these I had to show a narrower range of angles in order for the points to not all run together. Anyway... here's what the techbros want for us in Earth's new rings they want to construct
And a reminder that we ran some simulations of what these "orbital data center" megaconstellations would look like in the night sky: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02757
And Hugh Lewis recently ran simulations showing that many of these proposed megaconstellations would cause Kessler Syndrome *by themselves* even with the most generous possible assumptions: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.29644
Techbros are awful, example 1795034
@sundogplanets The goats look like they are organizing their protest. O_o
