Astronomer reveals how Starlink satellites are "leaking" radio signals

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Astronomer reveals how Starlink satellites are "leaking" radio signals

When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite pass overhead in the night sky was a rare event. Now it is commonplace: sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them.

Thousands of satellites have been launched into Earth orbit over the past decade or so, with tens of thousands more planned in coming years.

[The Conversation]

 

[1337]

blah blah nerd stuff

 

[RedViking]

blah blah nerd stuff

blah blah delete yourself.

 

[RedViking]

Hopefully they continue to improve the tech as time goes on. But I can image as more companies jump on board it is gonna get crazy up there.

 

[1337]

blah blah delete yourself.

found the nerd

 

[RedViking]

found the nerd

What interest you?

 

[Gordon_R]

The word signal in the title is slightly ambiguous. I thought they allowed decryption of messages. Actually they cause noise interference for radio astronomers...

 

[lkpat]

Easily resolved with a few small surface to air missiles... Then send Roger Wilco up to clean it up.

 

[Not_original]

Easily resolved with a few small surface to air missiles... Then send Roger Wilco up to clean it up.

We almost never needed that. In the early 60s the USA planned to launch millions of tiny copper shards to create an artificial ionosphere. Titled Project West Ford it was fortunately never fully implemented otherwise we would still be dealing (damaging satellites) with it today me thinks

 

[lkpat]

We almost never needed that. In the early 60s the USA planned to launch millions of tiny copper shards to create an artificial ionosphere. Titled Project West Ford it was fortunately never fully implemented otherwise we would still be dealing (damaging satellites) with it today me thinks

Yeh... The US also brought us this

And this

Nuclear-Testing ‘Downwinders’ Speak about History and Fear

An archival project aims to document the experiences of people who suffered from U.S. nuclear weapons testing

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[genetic]

blah blah nerd stuff

Why are you here?

 

[RedViking]

Why are you here?

To pay someone R800 to build a PC.

Edit: I'm just being nasty. Nothing wrong with getting a professional to make sure your investment is worth the money spend on it. Nerd stuff, you know.

 

[Not_original]

To pay someone R800 to build a PC.

If I can build pc's for R800 / pop I'd never need to work a day in my live again. (well offcourse I need to be building enough pc's but it never felt like work to me back then) The only sweat I'd breakthen was with those "naked" AMD dies and the "leap of faith, pray the screwdriver doesn't slip and punch a hole in the board" retention clips back in the days. Intel, click X 4, ok we are done. Fortunately it's the other guys turn to run the installs today (which wasn't entirely too bad, two 4 port KVM's so seven and our music/gaming rig to keep us from killing clients (which fortunately we only spoke to briefly with a 1 meter closed off bench between us)

Owner brings pizza on for lunch Fridays and then it becomes his son's problem, seeya Monday.....

 

[Dave]

To pay someone R800 to build a PC.

Why you paying someone to build you a PC?

 

[RedViking]

If I can build pc's for R800 / pop I'd never need to work a day in my live again. (well offcourse I need to be building enough pc's but it never felt like work to me back then) The only sweat I'd breakthen was with those "naked" AMD dies and the "leap of faith, pray the screwdriver doesn't slip and punch a hole in the board" retention clips back in the days. Intel, click X 4, ok we are done. Fortunately it's the other guys turn to run the installs today (which wasn't entirely too bad, two 4 port KVM's so seven and our music/gaming rig to keep us from killing clients (which fortunately we only spoke to briefly with a 1 meter closed off bench between us)

Owner brings pizza on for lunch Fridays and then it becomes his son's problem, seeya Monday.....

Unless you work for E..... Uhm.... A company where bending CPU pins is blamed on the client.

 

[RedViking]

Why you paying someone to build you a PC?

Am I building a PC?

/dawid tel stompies op

 

[Dave]

Am I building a PC?

Well, no, you want someone else to build it for you….

 

[Petec]

The local benefits far outweigh the need to have a zero interference window, so you can look at the perdy stars.

 

[lkpat]

Well, no, you want someone else to build it for you….

Alot of people do. The reason you charge is to identify clients with money who aren't inclined to haggle over R500 in the price. Usually business clients and not home clients who want 10 hours free support with every printer purchase.