Post #1731590

2026-04-27 08:50 UTC

This is a ten minute exposure of a comet, specifically R3 PanSTARRS. Look at the utter mess Musk and his buddies are making of our night sky, and they&#39;re only getting started. There are currently around 10,000 Starlink satellites in space. Musk wants to increase that number to one million. Follow @sundogplanets for up to date info on satellite pollution and some charming goat news. Photo by Uli Fehr -- via APOD https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260427.html #SatelliteTrails #APOD

Replies (9)

@jackeric@beige.party 2026-04-27 11:46

@BobLefridge @sundogplanets There's a character in the Slow Horses novels who gets attacked with a razor and whose face basically looks like that

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@circus_maximus@social.anoxinon.de 2026-04-27 13:08

@BobLefridge @sundogplanets Humming "I wear my sunglasses at night ..." Joking aside: Would there be a noticeable (in terms of global warming) increase having Musk's wet dream of 1 Million AI datacenters in the sky?

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@srvanderplas@datavis.social 2026-04-27 13:14

@BobLefridge @sundogplanets Ugh. Long exposure photos are my favorite. It figures Musk and the other technobros would ruin that along with my job (prof, I hate grading AI slop) and the environment too.

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@1420mhz@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 14:28

@BobLefridge @sundogplanets Yes, and also imagine trying to track NEOs and get a heads up on a possible impactor, in this lattice mess.

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@mist@chaosfurs.social 2026-04-27 14:29

@BobLefridge @sundogplanets why are the satelite lines dashed?

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@kimlockhartga@beige.party 2026-04-27 15:00

@BobLefridge @sundogplanets No one should have a claim on any part of the sky above us.

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@CWilbur@sfba.social 2026-04-27 16:08

@BobLefridge @sundogplanets You know, for years RW conspiracy theorists talked about stupid chemtrails. Now we have this, and no one says a word.

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@carpetbomberz@mastodon.online 2026-04-27 20:27

@BobLefridge @sundogplanets Anyone remember the Tholian Web, from Star Trek TOS ⁉️

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@Ehay2k@mastodon.social 2026-04-30 12:23

@BobLefridge @sundogplanets Is there some sort of dance or incantation that we can all do to conjure a big solar storm to knock out a bunch of those satellites? Imagine a circle of people in space suits and Sun costumes, dancing and chanting while pointing at the sky. (I could have used AI to generate an image of the above, but I prefer to use "federated imagination".)

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