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Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies

64 pointsby upofadowntoday at 12:40 AM30 commentsview on HN

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ccamrobertsontoday at 2:42 AM

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.

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robryantoday at 2:35 AM

> 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.

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RockRobotRocktoday at 2:14 AM

maybe Internet for people on earth matters more than astronomy

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electric_mayhemtoday at 1:35 AM

That’s a mighty nice field of study you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it

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spdustintoday at 1:44 AM

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.)

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