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There are roughly 15,000 total at the moment ? I wonder what that will do to animals and insects lives.
is already so bad. i do astro timelapses and it's all you see anymore. they stand out so much now, if the quantity gets 100x'd it'll be a nightmare.
it will blot out the stars...
There aren’t many animals or insects in low-earth orbit though, thankfully.
Yeah but they use the light to navigate too. They use this planet too.
I think local illumination is probably going to be more of a problem than reflected light of a satellite.
Beetles have been shown to rely on the milky way for navigation.
exactly nothing as most animals and insects can't even see the stars; their sense of vision isn't good enough for that.
Beetles have been shown to use the milky way for navigation.