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Starlink train drifting across the night sky over Japan
X ^ | 10/20/26 | X Freeze

Posted on 10/20/2026 2:12:03 PM PDT by Duke C.

5 years ago I saw this for the first time. I was luckily outside the city without any lights....I still vividly remember it. It was so beautiful

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1 posted on 10/20/2026 2:12:03 PM PDT by Duke C.
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To: Duke C.

The first time I saw it, it I gaped a little bit.

There are people who hate this, but I am not one of them.


2 posted on 10/20/2026 2:36:29 PM PDT by rlmorel (Gas prices are Temporary. Communism is Forever. Vote Republican.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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3 posted on 10/20/2026 2:40:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Duke C.

Routing the internet from orbit, and putting the data centers for artificial intelligence into orbit seem like bad ideas to me.


4 posted on 10/20/2026 3:38:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Too easy to interfer with and shoot down.
It also seems to me they would be very susceptible to CME.

Musk dreaming maybe he has a way. The practical reality seem to me to be no.


5 posted on 10/20/2026 3:44:08 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Duke C.

I got starlink when it came out, have 3 of them and they are awesome, never goes down.


6 posted on 10/20/2026 3:49:52 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Reily

We can only hope that they will be easy to shoot down.


7 posted on 10/20/2026 3:52:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

> Routing the internet from orbit, and putting the data centers for artificial intelligence into orbit seem like bad ideas to me.

Consider everything Elon does in terms of Mars, with Earth deployment merely as the prototype environment. Like the new Roadster’s thrusters — a cute demo on Earth but a more realistic and necessary mode of locomotion on Mars.


8 posted on 10/20/2026 4:43:27 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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