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>>11900470
>Musk wants normal people going to mars.
No, he wants to ruin the night sky for a cheap profit:

https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-starlink-satellite-launches-changing-night-sky/
>Astronomer Cees Bassa spends lots of time working with advanced radio telescopes aimed at deep space. But on May 24, 2019, he stepped outside near the Netherlands' famed Dwingeloo Radio Observatory and instead pointed a small video camera at the night sky.

>It was more than sufficient to pick up a train of over 50 bright lights moving in formation. This was among the first recordings of the SpaceX Starlink constellation. The company had launched its first full batch of 60 broadband satellites less than 24 hours earlier.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-is-polluting-the-skies-with-spacexs-thousands-of-satellites-2020-05-27
>One consequence is so much light pollution that astronomical images will become useless

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/1/7/21003272/space-x-starlink-astronomy-light-pollution
>SpaceX’s starlink satellites stream across the sky in Southern Brazil. They are almost as bright as the meteor captured in the upper right of the shot.

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