{"id":98920,"date":"2020-04-27T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=98920"},"modified":"2020-04-27T13:41:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:41:23","slug":"those-confounded-lights-in-the-sky-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98920","title":{"rendered":"Those Confounded Lights In the Sky – Again!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Go ahead, bark at the Moon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Used to be that, if there were lights in the night sky, it was in a V-formation and was pooh-poohed as being migrating geese or something similar. And people were sure it was space aliens leaving Earth.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s Elon Musk and his project to put something on the order of 50,000 or more communications satellites into orbit around Earth, so as to provide better internet communications…. as if we really, really need more of it.<\/p>\n

He hired Space X to do the job, as follows:\u00a0 Space X has launched its network of 56 satellites to provide better internet service, as of yesterday, April 26. Here\u2019s the link to Space.com\u2019s article about it from last year, including the launch video while in orbit:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites-spotted-night-sky-video.html<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the more recent display at night: https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites-surprise-british-skywatchers.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Some people thought they were space aliens visiting us, as always, but it was not to be. They\u2019re just commlink satellites, and Elon Musk chose Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral for his launch pad, instead of the space center in California.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re up at night and the sky is clear, occasionally, you may see a communications satellite passing overhead like a speeding freight, but that\u2019s only if the night sky is really clear and mosquitoes are gone for the rest of the year.\u00a0 In this case, you may see a string of them, spread out in a line as if it’s some sort of space train carrying bananas and chili to the Moonbase we’re supposed to build up there.<\/p>\n

I sometimes wonder if any of those space guys at NASA read “Have Spacesuit – Will Travel” when they were kids.\u00a0 We have to sit here on Earth and watch, while satellites orbit above our heads.<\/p>\n

And they still haven’t quite figured out why Tabby’s Star seems to be fading and then reappearing, but it seems to be debris from an exomoon that is slowly breaking up, and 21 more like it have been found, per this article:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-bunch-of-potential-tabby-s-star-alikes-have-just-been-identified<\/a><\/p>\n

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