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The lowest and slowest satellite? I've ever seen ... this clipped is slowed down but ..... #nightsky #scottishskies #satellitemess August 22nd
https://makertube.net/w/fR9wzGuHSChFvh1sVET3oC -
DOH! WHEN DID THE SKY
BECOME REAL ESTATE? 💎I’ve just watched a fascinating and rather unsettling video about the next possible frontier of AI. Not another data centre on Earth. Data centres in orbit. SpaceX has filed plans for an enormous constellation of up to a million solar-powered satellites designed to carry AI computing into space. Other companies and countries are exploring similar ideas.
THE ATTRACTION IS OBVIOUS.
AI needs staggering amounts of electricity. Data centres also need enormous cooling systems and, on Earth, often huge amounts of water. In orbit, there is abundant sunlight and no local power grid to overwhelm.
INGENIOUS.
But then another question appears.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE NIGHT SKY?
We already live with thousands of satellites overhead. Most of the time, we barely notice them. But if the numbers rise from thousands to hundreds of thousands, or even MILLIONS, the night sky itself begins to change.
Not metaphorically. Literally. More moving machines. More reflected light. More interference with astronomy. More objects travelling through crowded orbital paths at extraordinary speeds. And suddenly this stops being merely a technology story. It becomes a question about ownership.
WHO GETS TO DECIDE WHAT THE NIGHT SKY LOOKS LIKE?
The stars belong to nobody. The sky was not invented by a company. It was not built by a government. Human beings have looked into essentially the same dark sky for hundreds of thousands of years. It may be the oldest shared inheritance we have.
Yet decisions made by a relatively small number of companies and regulators could alter that view for everyone on Earth.
THAT FEELS IMPORTANT.
We have done this before. We enclosed the land. We commercialised attention. We turned personal information into a commodity. Now we may be approaching another enclosure.
THE SKY ITSELF.
None of this means orbital computing should never happen. The technology may prove extraordinarily useful, and many of the worst predictions may never come true. But technological possibility is not the same thing as permission.
Before we fill the heavens with machinery, perhaps humanity ought to have a rather larger conversation about what belongs to all of us. Because if we change the night sky itself, there may eventually be nowhere on Earth left to drive out to see it as it was.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
https://youtu.be/asggq4veVQc?si=-E7REY9NSHRlGcMF
#NightSky #Space #Astronomy #AI #Satellites #SpaceX #Technology
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Milky Way, Perseids, satellites, and an airplane over Yellowstone. #nightsky #Photography #TimeLapse #astrophotography
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Another moon shot
#nightsky
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The Milky Way over West Cork
The Milky Way core stood almost vertical over the house. The night sky was so clear and dark I could see the brighter parts of the core and lots and lots of stars with my own eyes. This was a 20-second exposure, f/2.8, ISO 8000 using my Samyang 24mm prime....
https://inphotos.org/2026/08/23/the-milky-way-over-west-cork/
#astrophotography #Barryroe #DarkSky #GalacticCore #Ireland #LandscapePhotography #LongExposure #MilkyWay #NightSky #stars #WestCork
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The Milky Way over West Cork
The Milky Way core stood almost vertical over the house. The night sky was so clear and dark I could see the brighter parts of the core and lots and lots of stars with my own eyes. This was a 20-second exposure, f/2.8, ISO 8000 using my Samyang 24mm prime.https://inphotos.org/2026/08/23/the-milky-way-over-west-cork/
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fell into the deep
reflections drown your sight with
electric star beams
#poem #haiku #photography #nightsky #poetry #sleepy #moonlight -
Back hame last night, after a longer than usual journey down the A9, yet another road closing incident, c'est la vie. #aurora #auroraborealis #aurorainscotland #nightsky #perthandKinross #satellitemess
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That's no moo.... Oh it actually is. #moon #nightphotography #nightsky
Taken on dwarf 3, from #andulucia #spain
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Perseids in the Vosges. I spent two nights in the Vosges mountains during the Perseid meteor shower. My new blog post features photos, text, and a soundscape.
https://www.silberspur.de/blogs/read/128
#Perseids #MeteorShower #Meteor #ShootingStars #Vosges #Astrophotography #Nature #Soundscape #artificialLightAtNight #alan #Astronomy #Sky #NightSky #Soundscape #SoundRecording #lightpollution #timelapse
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August 14th/15th - I set up a camera as usual, not sure if the cloud will clear or stay clear tonight. I screwed up the focussing on this one but, it shows the ridiculous number of satellites we already have along with an Aurora on the horizon.
#auroraborealis #aurorainscotland #nightsky #satelliteoverload #timelapse
