Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sundogplanets</span></a></span> Yes, and Starlink is a massive pollutant - bith in terms if RF ?-Spectrum <em>and</em> Light!</p><ul><li>I live in a city of 100k in the most populous state if Germany with horrible light pollution but even in my extremely well lit area I can see all the Starlink junk brighter than almost all Iridium Flares in the night sky!!!</li></ul><p>Tho there's technically a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">constellation consisting of almost half a billion metal needles</a> tho <a href="https://stuffin.space/?search=westford" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">aside from some frozen gel lumps</a> most of them are presumed to have reentered.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Spectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spectrum</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LightPollution</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Flares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flares</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IridiumFlares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IridiumFlares</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FlareWell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlareWell</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WestfordNeedles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WestfordNeedles</span></a></p>