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.