As a professional astronomer, I've seen several large optical telescope groups already discuss mitigation strategies for Starlink and the other satellite constellations that will go up soon. Long story short, it will impact the observing efficiency, most seriously for long exposures that are going for faint galaxies, and the radio leakage in sidebands will be very severe for radio astronomy.
For casual night sky observers, it will be a huge impact - in Summer at higher latitudes, you'll see these streaks all over the sky. Ah, well. It was nice while it lasted.
]]>Wait, crap. That won't work. A good AI will spot when we've used the one-time pad word and then click over into lying to me. Encrypted audio streams and walkie talkies it is then.
Good grief, I really did not need to read this today.... this can go an awful long way down, and it's possible now and not 'in the future'.
]]>My most paranoid thought is that one of these algorithms will find Langford's Basilisk, and then we have our answer to Fermi's paradox.
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