{"id":43542,"date":"2023-09-28T18:19:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lethal-industry.com\/?p=43542"},"modified":"2023-09-28T18:19:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:19:13","slug":"terrifying-video-reveals-elon-musks-huge-army-of-satellites-as-scientists-warn-of-starlinks-hidden-danger-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lethal-industry.com\/world-news\/terrifying-video-reveals-elon-musks-huge-army-of-satellites-as-scientists-warn-of-starlinks-hidden-danger-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"'Terrifying' video reveals Elon Musk's huge army of satellites as scientists warn of Starlink's 'hidden danger' | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A VIDEO of Elon Musk's web of Starlink satellites has left onlookers stunned, as scientists warn of their little-known risks to the night sky. <\/p>\n

There are, at most, around 9,000 stars visible to Earth's view of the sky, and around 5,000 Starlink satellites, as of August.<\/p>\n

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The orange dots represent Starlink satellites. <\/p>\n

According to\u00a0new research, low-frequency radio waves are 'leaking' into the sky and hurting scientist's ability to make astronomical observations.<\/p>\n

Sky gazers fear that soon satellites will outnumber the amount of stars there are to see, according to comments made on Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n

One onlooker called the video"depressing", before adding: "Literally in only a few years they will outnumber the stars themselves. <\/p>\n

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"Gotta love lack of oversight that allows megalomaniacs to ruin the planet for everyone." <\/p>\n

Another added: "I don\u2019t remember voting Musk to be tsar of space! <\/p>\n

"That\u2019s just a start because repeat this over again with China and India and other billionaire space Cowboys." <\/p>\n

However, Dr Kit Chapman, science historian and lecturer at Falmouth University, was quick to point out that these orange dots are not to scale. <\/p>\n

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"There's lots of things you can say about the science of space. Space junk, choice of materials, the chemistry of satellites, etc," he tweeted.<\/p>\n

"But 'omg this little animation shows space is so overcrowded'… like, do they seriously think each satellite is the size of Greater London?<\/p>\n

"A Starlink satellite, for those wondering, is about the size of a dining room table (or, wrestling fans, the size and weight of Andre the Giant). <\/p>\n

"Space is not overcrowded. We humans are just really crap at understanding scale and numbers."<\/p>\n

Another onlooker wrote the video wasn't particularly "impressive or scary" but that it made clear Starlink would be significantly contributing to space debris. <\/p>\n

"It seems like Starlink satellites are designed to deorbit, but they risk collisions and creating more debris," they tweeted. <\/p>\n

"Cleaning Low Earth Orbit is still in an experimental stage…"<\/p>\n

A looming issue<\/h2>\n

Space junk, or space debris, is anything left by humans that is stuck in Earth's orbit – be it a piece a dead satellite or fleck of paint chipped off a rocket.<\/p>\n

Objects in Earth's orbit travel at about 15,000 miles per hour – fast enough that if a small piece collided with a satellite or space ship it could do serious damage.<\/p>\n

The International Space Station often engages in manoeuvring missions to avoid pieces of space junk. <\/p>\n

But as the global space industry opens up to billionaire entrepreneurs like Musk, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic – activity in Earth's orbit has rocketed. <\/p>\n

What comes alongside heightened activity is more debris. <\/p>\n

Scientists are not only concerned that the growing number of satellites in orbit will change the landscape of the night sky. <\/p>\n

But they are also afraid of an extreme collision event, like what Nasa scientist Donald Kessler proposed in 1978.<\/p>\n

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He said that if there was too much space junk in orbit, it could result in a chain reaction. <\/p>\n

In this instance, more objects collide and create new space junk in the process, to the point where Earth's orbit became unusable.<\/p>\n

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