There aren’t many animals or insects in low-earth orbit though, thankfully.
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TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 days ago
There are roughly 15,000 total at the moment ? I wonder what that will do to animals and insects lives.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 5 days ago
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Yeah but they use the light to navigate too. They use this planet too.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 days ago
I think local illumination is probably going to be more of a problem than reflected light of a satellite.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Beetles have been shown to rely on the milky way for navigation.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
exactly nothing as most animals and insects can’t even see the stars; their sense of vision isn’t good enough for that.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Beetles have been shown to use the milky way for navigation.
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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…