It’s not like it needed further proof. It’s clearly happening. The latest starlink sats are better, and we need to continue to minimise it where we can, but the problem is not going away. Not much point in complaining really. For a lot of the science it’s not a huge problem since it can be removed from the data, but it’s terrible for astro-photography.

There’s a definite balance here- how to provide modern services to hard-to-reach places and how to make sure we can do good science. I’m not sure what the answer is when it comes to internet and rural areas, but internet is pretty much required in the modern world, at least in the West, and if you don’t have it at home, that can make your life much more difficult.

So what is someone living out in the woods to do without a service like Starlink? And what is someone in the Third World who wants to better their life to do in the same situation? I don’t have the answer, I wish I did.

This nearly week old news has been posted a dozen times already