Thank you Prof. Lawler for your tireless work to put the horrendous issues associated with Starlink in front of the public. While we are on the subject we should also discuss the Kessler Syndrome.
Some evening not too long from now you may look up, and instead of the stars and the ubiquitous Starlink satellite trains marching along, you might see a night sky filled with brilliant sparkles. What's happened?
Well in their infinite stupidity the US government has granted Elon Musk's SpaceX permission to launch thousands of Starlink satellites into low earth orbit (LEO). These things are wizzing around up there trying to avoid crashing into one another, and with each new batch that becomes harder. Plus now the Chinese and Amazon are sending up their own satellite constellations. It's a massive traffic problem.
Kind of like airline traffic, only infinitely worse. If planes collide, the wreckage just falls to the ground. In space, one triggering event, either an accident or some intentional anti-satellite action and, like a room full of mousetraps and ping-pong balls, you get a cascading series of collisions which can take out everything leaving an unnavigable debris field for decades. And humanity is screwed. That's what we are playing with here.
From its inception, Nazis played an important role in the development of America's space program. Oligarch Musk is the direct descendant of Wernher Von Braun. Of course, Von Braun actually knew what he was doing, whereas Musk builds exploding rocket ships.
If this thread has sparked your interest in the subject of Starlink space pollution. Here is a great article derived from an interview with Prof. Lawler: