I don't use the damn satellites and I miss the version of the sky I did use. The sats are so damn distracting when you're just stargazing. Space used to be the last place we could (mostly) gaze beyond the reach of man. From here on out it's the human circus, 24/7.

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gpm 2 days ago | parent [-]

There's been visible satellites in the sky literally my entire life. And airplanes. The newer generation of satellites (whether Starlink or Iridium's replacement satellites) are significantly less bright and less disruptive, not more, though they are still swamped by airplanes in less remote places.

	▲	bigbadfeline 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>There's been visible satellites in the sky literally my entire life. I didn't know 3 years olds were on HN :) Seriously though, there is a difference between a satellite or an asteroid showing up every 15 minutes and a sky with a few satellites at all times.
	▲	0_____0 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I want to take you outside and show you. I'm not bitching about nothing. We're not just making this up. There weren't Iridium flares every 20 seconds. You can't even go somewhere remote like New Zealand to avoid getting overflown by them. You see them basically everywhere on Earth now. Maybe you can wait until they're fully in Earth's shadow, but that's not even a guarantee. They're bright, they move quickly, and there are loads of them. It's like having one of the last peaceful things you can do plastered with the equivalent of full-motion banner ads for Earth bullshit.