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Russia warns United States: use of SpaceX for spying makes its satellites a target (www.reuters.com)

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[-] warm@kbin.earth 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not on its own. Polluting the skies for profit is the problem. Why the cherry picking though?

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz -5 points 8 months ago

Do you also think cell towers are "polluting the landscape"?

[-] warm@kbin.earth 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Of course cell towers are an eye sore. Though they are more necessary than starlink, often hidden by landscape or on top of buildings anyway. It's not the "gotcha" comparison you think it is.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz -2 points 8 months ago

Why are they more necessary? They both do the same job.

[-] warm@kbin.earth 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Perhaps necessary was the wrong word, though I don't know if starlink supports the same bands the towers already do for 2G, 3G, 4G etc. They don't obstruct our skies, so that's much preferable.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz -1 points 8 months ago

Starlink sats are only visible to the naked eye when they've just launched, once in orbit they're only a problem for ground based optical astronomy, and even then it doesn't seem to be as much of a problem as everyone makes out.

I get that you probably hate Musk, but a lot of the points you're making are just nonsense.