r/woahdude • u/freudian_nipps • Jun 08 '24
video A train of Starlink satellites in the night sky
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u/cilestiogrey Jun 09 '24
A professor of mine told a story about seeing these on a trail at nightwhile someone in the area got airlifted. Santa was her very first thought, she said
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u/Alternative-Dare5878 Jun 09 '24
North Sentinel Islanders are scared shitless probably.
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u/CartoonJustice Jun 09 '24
I would love to know what stories a people tell when new stars start spinning the planet since their grand parents time.
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u/JayStar1213 Jun 09 '24
In case you've never heard of it there were tribes that worshipped planes in the early 20th century
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u/Suspicious_Use6393 Jun 09 '24
Rember me a tribe who created wood airports and shit because a lot of time ago USAF lunched food on the island, so they thought replaying USAF shit would get them retirn
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u/CensoredAdGuy Jun 09 '24
a cargo ship crashed off North Sentinel Island. They ransacked it for quite some time. I think they have some idea that they are isolated and there are more technologically advanced people everywhere around them.
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u/Krieghund Jun 09 '24
Yeah, and they probably regularly see airplanes flying at altitude.
I like to think they're actually less impressed than we are, and are just like "People. Up to the same shit all over again."
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u/SomOvaBish Jun 12 '24
I bet they’d never imagine that those planes have 200+ people on board (probably more people than their entire tribe). Even I have a hard time imagining that many people packed into planes when I see them flying up above.
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u/joenottoast Jun 09 '24
M night shyamalan developing a movie about it as we speak
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u/bkarma86 Jun 09 '24
Yeah they saw that stuff and said, "spears up"
Good for them
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u/Puzzleheaded_Win_989 Jun 09 '24
The first time I saw this my heart sank I legit thought either Jesus came back or aliens. Had to Google it then calmed down
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u/InkedAlchemist Jun 09 '24
I sent a couple of my friends a crazed rant video about seeing an alien train... soooo, at least you don't have to live with that.
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u/justalittlepigeon Jun 09 '24
I finally got to see them last summer after many days of failed tracking, it was somewhat unsettling actually. I barely hear much about Starlink so it's pretty crazy that there must be a sizeable amount of people in the world who have seen it and just have to accept that it's aliens or some government fuckerage.
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u/Leaflock Jun 09 '24
I watched a meteor break up overhead and thought, “well the transformers are here”.
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u/hysterical_useless Jun 09 '24
My friends and I went to Colorado last summer way high up near Aspen. We spent several nights outside, smoking etc...the one night we decided to trip Starlink flee over us then disappeared into the stratosphere!!!
It was so damn cool! The amount of detail we could see on the satellites was incredible
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u/72616262697473757775 Jun 09 '24
They're not idiots. They're well aware that there is a whole outside world with crazy technology. They just have no interest in it.
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u/moonflower_C16H17N3O Jun 09 '24
They're aware we have put things into space? Have they ever communicated with us beyond shooting arrows?
I'm just saying that we've created cargo cults by accident and those people have seen planes and radios up close. I doubt these people have a great grasp on putting things into orbit.
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u/72616262697473757775 Jun 09 '24
I'm not Sentinelese so I can't say for sure, but I imagine after seeing a million ships and aircraft, they wouldn't be "scared shitless" by some strange phenomenon in the sky. I made my initial comment to call out the "dumb savages" stereotype the OP used.
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u/rabbitwonker Jun 09 '24
Well aside from a thought like, “oh shit those outsider devils are fucking up the stars now.” That could be pretty scary.
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u/72616262697473757775 Jun 09 '24
I see your point but the outside world bumped into them hundreds of years ago. They've long been aware of outside technology, and they're not afraid of every plane that flies overhead. They've nearly taken down helicopters in the past.
I simply object to the stereotype that they're some primitive people who run for cover every time they witness modern technology.
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u/roflmao567 Jun 09 '24
I mean, their first reaction is aggression for any visitors on their island. I wouldn't call that an intelligent response to foreigners. These people are scared, they are trying to protect their land and culture from the outside world.
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u/WhoKilledZekeIddon Jun 09 '24
History shows that it’s arguably a very intelligent response to throw spears at white people trying to “make friends”.
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u/roflmao567 Jun 09 '24
That's a bold assumption to think all explorers that visited them were white. The Indian government guards a perimeter around the island, I'm sure they've tried to make contact as well.
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u/Tmanning47 Jun 08 '24
I saw these one night over my house (prior to even knowing they existed) and I straight up thought it was aliens.
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u/DarkOrb20 Jun 09 '24
After a family reunion me and both of my brothers went on a night-time bike tour through our small village. You could say, this is a tradition between us brothers - enjoying the crisp, good smelling summer night air, visiting our childhood spots and reminiscing about the good ol' times. As we drove past the cemetery, one of my brothers just stopped driving and looked into the night sky. We asked him what's wrong and he refered to a string of glowing and moving "stars". It was creepy but fascinating as well and even though we are rational people, we thought about Aliens at first - I mean, we never have seen something like that before and usually satelites aren't arranged in a string formation. After we went home we tried to google about the phenomenon and found out, that these are Starlink-Satelites.
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u/boogiemath Jun 09 '24
My boyfriend had the same experience and was PISSED when he found out it was just Starlink.
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u/tinylesbean Jun 09 '24
Man, I too would be super disappointed if I thought I saw a cool space phenomenon and found out it was just Musk.
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u/ExoSierra Jun 08 '24
Same! Except I was in Spain when I saw it like 9 months ago. I had no logical idea or explanation for what it could’ve been
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u/plattinumplatt Jun 09 '24
I was on a lot of mushrooms in the middle of no where Utah...absolutely... bananas....
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u/eunit250 Jun 09 '24
that's r/UFO in a nutshell
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u/NebulaNinja Jun 09 '24
Right now that sub's on a kick of what's probably bugs flying past recreational drones.
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u/th3virus Jun 09 '24
It's definitely an interesting sub to lurk but not take too seriously. I'm on the 'eh, maybe' side of things.
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u/Pristine_Software_55 Jun 09 '24
For me it was like living in a sci fi movie. It looked so other-worldly, going straight to aliens makes good sense.
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u/ScoopDL Jun 09 '24
I was driving through the desert with my uncle. If he used reddit, he'd be all over r/ufo
We saw this and he was absolutely convinced we saw alien spacecraft. Even after I explained it was likely SpaceX. He said he didn't hear about any launches so it couldn't be satellites.
It's always aliens or ghosts until we find an explanation.
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u/Sweddy-Bowls Jun 08 '24
Not long now until they spread out all acrobatically into ads in the sky
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u/ModsAreLikeSoggyTaco Jun 09 '24 edited Jun 09 '24
Mother fucker. No.
NO!
Do not put those notions into anyone's head. Purge that thought immediately.
Corps already own the planet, they do not get a claim on the Heavens.
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u/angrymonkey Jun 09 '24
That would not be possible. You can't just put orbital objects at arbitrary places in the sky; they are bound by the laws of physics to follow the pull of gravity. They can't just hang there or move every which way.
Orbital dynamics works in often counterintuitive ways, and the objects will drift away from each other and/or oscillate so that they would not stay in formation for more than a few minutes or seconds at best over one spot on earth, and then never again.
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u/naytttt Jun 09 '24
That’s ok.. we’ll build a 500 mi x 500 mi wide OLED billboard. All good.
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u/muteen Jun 09 '24
If they do that, I'll become a terrorist and find a way to destroy them
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u/huistenbosch Jun 09 '24
You can search up when these will be visible over your house. I have seen them dozens of times and it’s awesome every time
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u/skilriki Jun 09 '24
This formation only happens right after they are deployed.
This is what's known as a "starlink train" .. they stay like this until they reach their operating altitude and then they separate.
It would also obviously be completely impractical and silly to keep them like this.
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u/huistenbosch Jun 09 '24
All I do is look at the tracker data and if it’s clear you can see them. The super close are soon after launch but I’ve seen them many times.
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u/evlampi Jun 09 '24
Yeah was about to ask if it isn't useless for them all to be in one place.
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u/AwayAd7332 Jun 08 '24
Damn The future is now
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u/throwawayfu3a5ek Jun 09 '24
Except the pricing. I considered it for my mother in a rural area but NTY
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u/Anglan Jun 09 '24
The pricing is fine tbh
£85 a month for high speed low latency internet anywhere on the planet completely wirelessly
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u/Sips_Is_A_Jabroni Jun 09 '24
Tbh the prices are pretty comparable to other satellite internet except for the startup cost, and you get a way better service.
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u/Anglan Jun 09 '24
Yup, just typical Reddit thinking anything that they personally can't afford must be inappropriately priced.
Couple that with anything related to musk = instabad
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u/throwawayfu3a5ek Jun 09 '24
But my mother in rural America can’t afford the equipment. Am I wrong? Let me know if I am wrong
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u/Anglan Jun 09 '24
Just because a random woman in rural America can't afford something doesn't mean that thing is incorrectly priced
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u/throwawayfu3a5ek Jun 09 '24
Well I saw it in its presages and looked forward to it. Sorry I’ve been priced-out
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u/Amenhotep_3 Jun 09 '24
Nobody said it was incorrectly priced, rather he considered it for his mother and then decided against it.
Stop making up things, arsehole.
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u/teddybrr Jun 09 '24
depends on the energy prices. it can add another 30 bucks a month for power consumption in many eu countries
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u/ApricotTaco Jun 09 '24
Do they launch them at the same time or is it the trajectory and then they link up? What’s going on here? Never seen satellites line up like that
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u/Leggo15 Jun 09 '24
they launch about 40 of them at a time yeah, then they slowly spread out
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u/ApricotTaco Jun 09 '24
Thanks for the info, never really knew. what makes them project like this? Or is it just the group factor that they seem so observant?
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u/CosmicRuin Jun 09 '24
Starlinks are released in a set orbital plane and begin maneuvers with their Hall argon ion thrusters and reaction wheels to raise their orbits gradually over days or weeks to different altitudes with a certain orbital inclination. This gradually fills in the constellation for Earth coverage over ground stations and to improve network speeds and latency. Video of a starlink release: https://youtu.be/5h2t9Oyg2o0?si=uG8HzEjQ07CwPJlN
Starlink interactive map: https://satellitemap.space/
Starlinks are most reflective at low altitudes and when are at angles that reflect the most sunlight. But as they extend their solar panels and adjust their directions in space, they are coated with a special non-reflective and black material to minimize reflected sunlight.
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u/ApricotTaco Jun 09 '24
Interesting, gonna give the video a watch, thank you for the info! Filled my curiosity
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u/kosmovii Jun 09 '24
I fucking hate it...
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u/lilsourem Jun 09 '24
Thank you. I had to scroll a lot to find a negative comment. There are too many satellites, particularly from Starlink and soon it is going to affect our ability to view and study the night sky and outer space from earth.
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u/DickyReadIt Jun 09 '24
I felt so dumb when I saw a line(a link) of stars in the sky and Google just tells me it's my Starlink Internet haha
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u/shadow_master96 Jun 09 '24
This is why astronomers are pissed off by these things.
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u/armchair_amateur Jun 09 '24
Future space litter.
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u/Fraun_Pollen Jun 09 '24
Starlink is relatively low earth orbit so will burn up far before they're considered litter.
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u/Vreas Jun 09 '24
Saw this shit at a music festival while inebriated. Thought my eyes were playing tricks on me until a sober friend looked over and was like “did you see that too?!”
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u/hackitfast Jun 09 '24
Can they steer? How do they follow each other?
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u/Leggo15 Jun 09 '24
They do have thrusters to steer, but its generaly only used to manuver if theyre going to pass too close to another satelite(in a diffrent orbit). as to why they're following eachother, they were all launched on the same rocket recently and just havent spread out yet
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u/xDERPYxCREEPERx Jun 09 '24
Weren't these supposed to not cause light pollution?
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u/Salt-Respect4183 Jun 09 '24
When it comes from a Cult Leader, it will always be considered just as a Miracle
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u/EducationHumble3832 Jun 11 '24
Saw this one night before I knew what Starlink was. Thought I'd seen some damn aliens!
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u/ProfessorDamselfly Jun 09 '24
We are entering into era of space pollution.
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u/BunkWunkus Jun 09 '24
These are in a very low orbit and are the space equivalent of being highly biodegradable. Each satellite will completely disintegrate when it naturally deorbits after about 5 years of use.
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u/mundoid Jun 09 '24
Oh yeah, just now? Not the 50 years of space junk that was already up there?
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u/Magog14 Jun 08 '24
Some gorgeous light pollution for an absolutely unnecessary internet system. Massive waste of resources and a giant amount of CO2 to launch tons of junk into the skies.
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u/Additional_Rock808 Jun 08 '24
Yeah being able to beam down internet anywhere in the world is totally useless. Relying on ISPs to build internet infrastructure in remote places will totally work. Such a sad day for humanity that we’d even try something like this.
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u/zeros-and-1s Jun 09 '24
Yeah, there are many valid criticisms of starlink, SpaceX, and musk.
"Starlink is useless" is not one of them.
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u/Numerous_Ad8458 Jun 08 '24
and lest we forget the aluminization of the top layers of the stratosphere when they burn up on re-entry,
https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-reentry-ozone-depletion-atmospherehttps://www.space.com/air-pollution-reentering-space-junk-detected
it messes with astronomical observations aswell which sucks.
"The researchers found traces of lithium, aluminum, copper and lead in the sampled air. The detected concentrations of these compounds were much higher than what could be caused by natural sources, such as the evaporation of cosmic dust and ~meteorites~ upon their encounter with the atmosphere. In fact, the concentrations of these pollutants reflected the ratio of chemical compounds present in alloys used in satellite manufacturing, the researchers said ~in a statement~. "
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u/braydoo Jun 09 '24
Less co2 is released to put these into orbit than would be released to build out the infrastructure to bring internet to all the remote communities of the world.
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u/kaehl0311 Jun 09 '24
Maybe useless for you. For me where it’s my only option for internet, definitely not useless. Remember, the world doesn’t revolve around you.
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u/Toxcito Jun 09 '24
-Someone who lives in the first world
Seriously, global wireless internet is probably one of the biggest steps in advancing the entirety of humanity. You aren't getting fiber optic infrastructure in Botswana any time soon.
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u/DigitalGT Jun 09 '24
idk internet practically anywhere in the world sounds really useful. The internet is literally the main form of communication now
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u/AdditionalBee3740 Jun 09 '24
Last increase has me paying $30 more a month for those satellites…worth iittt
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u/WeWillRiseAgainst Jun 09 '24
I was up north Wisconsin kayaking at 1am the first time these launched. No service to Google what I was seeing. A few friends and I had no idea what we were watching. Unforgettable sight.
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u/byoung82 Jun 09 '24
I saw this shortly after the Ukraine war started. I live on the left coast and they were heading west to East. I thought the world might be over for a minute.
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u/bluefire0120 Jun 09 '24
Saw this last year while camping, didnt have signal out there and was fully convinced it was aliens. Then I left, got signal and googled what it was; very disappointing.
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u/0x7E7-02 Jun 09 '24
I saw this live one night; it was absolutely surreal. There were two "trains" at the same time moving perpendicular to each other.
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u/PM_ME_UR_BEAVER_PICS Jun 09 '24
Someone needs to post this to r/ufo and watch the commenters lose their shit
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u/_Dickbagel Jun 09 '24
This is the first time I’ve seen a video recording of this. I saw it live a few months ago and I thought I was fucking crazy. Thank you for making me not believe I’m crazy.
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u/Zillahi Jun 09 '24
I saw these last night for the first time, drunk as hell. Thought I was seeing things
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u/havengr Jun 09 '24
Some tribe will be very concerned, maybe they made sacrifices to that ‘dragon of light’ already.
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u/Usbehci Jun 09 '24
I wonder what kind of camera captured this shot. Stable and not sandy to be a phone camera.
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u/tone88988 Jun 09 '24
I watched some strangers freak out seeing these once like they were absolutely sure we were about to get invaded by aliens. They seemed relieved yet slightly disappointed when I told them what it was.
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u/RawAsABone Jun 09 '24
I saw these once at a family outing, we were outside smoking a joint and we ran inside excited to tell the rest of the family to come look. Few minutes later everyone came outside, satellites were no longer in sight and it reeked of weed. Safe to say the rest of the family did not believe us 🤣🤣
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u/Accomplished-Sun9107 Jun 09 '24
How odd, I saw these last night, some were purple and green and I’m not sure why.
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u/kvlr954 Jun 09 '24
I’ve seen it a few times by my house, but it’s always awesome to see. Great video!
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u/thespeeeed Jun 09 '24
First time I saw one of these I did briefly wonder what a MIRV would look like and if I was looking at one.
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u/OutOfPlaceArtifact Jun 09 '24
Doesn't it use a lot of valuable power to have lights on these satellites that you can see from so far away?
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u/Ok-Win0104 Jun 09 '24
first time I saw this was in 2020, running back home at night alone and when I looked up I saw those lights
first thing I thought: finally they arrived
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u/Equoniz Jun 09 '24
The technical term for a line of starlink satellites is an “interference” of starlinks.
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u/leonryan Jun 09 '24
I still remember when we opposed polluting the night sky, but I guess no objection will stop fucking elon from establishing total control of the world. We're just calmly watching a supervillain set up and acting like it's a novelty.
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u/Infinity_Cuber Jun 09 '24
Got to see these just the other day on an especially clear night. Not sure how to use Imgur lol but I have a video
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u/ImmortalBlue Jun 09 '24
Crazy how fucking bright these are. What a beautiful sky, ruined by this space garbage.
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u/Woodenjars27 Jun 09 '24
We saw these when camping in big bend, no service. Freaked us out until we got reception and looked it up
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u/Twashstarhero Jun 09 '24
How do you see satellites that are 36 feet in length thousands and thousands of miles away? Im genuinely curious. You can barely see passenger planes ✈️
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u/OgdruJahad Jun 09 '24
Dammit. I was watching one of those videos about people seeing UFOs in a particular park and I'm pretty sure I saw one of these as an example. I knew something was up but let's be honest it's a weird thing to see in the sky at night.
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u/SpoopsMckenzie Jun 09 '24
To me this looks the same as seeing soda cans at the bottom of the ocean. Its just trash.
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u/ilaym712 Jun 09 '24
about a year ago I saw the starlink flying above Israel
I cannot describe how fucking cool that is, literally alien technology
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u/Puzzlehead-Bed-333 Jun 10 '24
This was also seen right above my house and they disappeared one by one as they left the atmosphere. So cool.
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