> Algorithmic mitigation is being explored, but scientists describe it as “embryonic” — potentially demanding computing power that rivals the science processing itself.
It sounds like this would work? Just be more costly, at least in the short term.
> Engineering fixes are the real answer
What is the fix and tradeoff? The article doesn't seem to cover it at all.
ccamrobertson 8 minutes ago [-]
While I pine for a dark sky, it makes sense that these operations should move in the same way century old optical telescopes in cities are no longer used for cutting edge science.
The far side of the moon seems like an increasingly viable option.
RockRobotRock 35 minutes ago [-]
maybe Internet for people on earth matters more than astronomy
cozzyd 14 minutes ago [-]
These are either incidental or unauthorized transmissions. Not the Ku band downlink to terminals.
defrost 30 minutes ago [-]
We had that before Starlink flooded the radio quiet zones with leakage.
bcraven 19 minutes ago [-]
Were that the case, there would have been nobody buying Starlink.
As they are, I think you are wrong.
sh-run 11 minutes ago [-]
I have such a love hate relationship with the tech. On one hand, I live on the edge of the mountains and can get away while on-call, set up my starlink and still be within SLAs if I got paged while out of service (weekend pages are fairly rare). On the other hand, I'm an amateur astronomer, for visual astro, it's not a huge deal, but I see how it could be for astrophotography (streaks) and obviously it's a problem for radio.
stackghost 2 minutes ago [-]
I agree. Enlarging Elon Musk’s fortune is significantly more pressing than the ability to learn about the origins of the universe, or enjoying the night sky.
Hizonner 33 minutes ago [-]
That might be dispositive if we didn't already have almost everybody on Earth wired up without using satellites.
asdfasgasdgasdg 30 minutes ago [-]
The fact that so many people are paying for starlink suggests that it is adding something important that was missing before.
fluidcruft 25 minutes ago [-]
Streaming video on airplane flights?
db48x 9 minutes ago [-]
Most of Starlink’s customers are simply rural people who want Internet access at decent speeds. There are wide swathes of the US where Starlink’s best competition is measured in kilobytes per second.
electric_mayhem 1 hours ago [-]
That’s a mighty nice field of study you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it
spdustin 1 hours ago [-]
I just have to say: I _hate_ with a white-hot fury the growing usage of html-load and error-report dot com bullshit on these sites. I block those domains for gratuitous ad-serving, and sites just cycle a modal error now.
(I know, I could disable JavaScript everywhere and enable it on a site-by-site basis. Maybe that time has come.)
bix6 44 minutes ago [-]
I’ve got JavaScript disabled and no websites work.
dmix 27 minutes ago [-]
And nothing was lost
53 minutes ago [-]
Rendered at 02:50:01 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
It sounds like this would work? Just be more costly, at least in the short term.
> Engineering fixes are the real answer
What is the fix and tradeoff? The article doesn't seem to cover it at all.
The far side of the moon seems like an increasingly viable option.
As they are, I think you are wrong.
(I know, I could disable JavaScript everywhere and enable it on a site-by-site basis. Maybe that time has come.)