So lemme get this straight:
They want a bunch of AIs to fill the internet with slop, potentially making our infosphere impenetrable… and the way they wanna do it is to fill the sky with junk, potentially making our atmosphere impenetrable.
Just, help me out. Am I misunderstanding? This is supposed to be a good idea?
I don’t dispute that Starlink satellites are ruining the night’s sky. But the article’s photo is obviously doctored:
And here’s why:
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The article claims it’s a 30-minute long-exposure photo. That’s flatly impossible, because if it was, the stars would describe an arc in the sky - i.e. star trails. Here’s one of mine for example:
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Assuming the stars are fixed in the sky because the camera mount was following the Earth’s rotation, then why are the trees at the bottom fixed too? They should be a smear.
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Most of those supposed satellite trails are regularly-spaced dotted lines. But the image was a continuous exposure. How do we know that? because one of the trails at the bottom is a continuous line. Therefore, those trails can only be airliners. And considering the lengths of the trails - since they’re interrupted - at the speed they go through, the exposure can only have been a few minutes (still plenty of time to leave star trails or tree smearing if the shot was real).
This is either manually doctored or AI-generated.
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