As of September 29, 2026, there are 16,613 active satellites in Earth orbit, 11,128 of them Starlink.
A fun fact: Kessler syndrome is a runaway chain reaction in orbit. Collisions create debris, and that debris causes more collisions, and when something breaks into pieces, its mass stays the same but its total surface area goes up, and reflected sunlight scales with area.
I submit to you that our kids' kids won't be able to see the milky way galaxy because of this litter.
Starlink is too low to be a concern for Kessler Syndrome. They all deorbit on their own in a few years. 700-1,000km is the orbit that should be observed for Kessler risk. <500km is of no real concern due to atmospheric drag.
I'm not very excited. Access to the best AI is not a party I was invited to. And the people who are at that party, well, they don't exactly reflect on my best interests.
Is mathematics an science or an art? To the extent it's art, it's expressive and rewards the human experience that inspires and that creates it. If it's art, it's drastically less valuable to advance it through automation. But if mathematics is a science, then our entire goal is to increase humanity's understanding of the field. Whether by automation or genius inspiration or as a reward for decades of grinding it out incrementally, it's all the same: knowing more is the point.
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