Post by @Federation_Bot

I really should not work on visualizations of the night sky with thousands of naked-eye visible stupid "AI data center" sun-synchronous satellites at the end of the day. This sucks.

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An all-sky view that's a big grey circle with two big fat stripes of satellites (shown by coloured dots) diagonal across the middle part of the grey circle, and one close to the eastern edge. Ntot is how many sunlit satellites are in the sky, it's more than fifteen thousand. Nvis is how many are naked eye visible in this particular simulation (with lots of assumptions), it's more than eight thousand.

Two weird stripes of bright satellite dots on either side of the zenith in an all-sky view. There are almost fifteen thousand naked-eye visible satellites in this simulation.

Another simulation with two diagonal stripes, one close to the horizon and one going across zenith, with over nine thousand naked-eye visible satellites.

This visualization has an X of satellites crossing at the zenith, with fifteen thousand naked-eye visible satellites.

Prof. Sam Lawler

@[email protected] · 3 months ago

I should note that there's no freaking way we'd ever get this many satellites into this tight of a set of orbits. We'd be in full Kessler Syndrome way before that. I'm just trying to highlight the absurdity of what these awful companies are asking for. (Now up to 4 separate filings for copycat "AI data center" megaconstellations. Fuck you, SpaceX, for starting all of this rampant waste and destruction.)

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