STARLINK DECLARES WAR ON COMETS
Earlier this year, the number of Starlink satellites in Earth orbit surpassed 10,000. You can see the evidence in the sky:
Dan Bush took this picture before sunrise on April 16th from Albany, Missouri. It's supposed to be a picture of Comet PanSTARRS (C/2025 R3), but it contains far more satellites than comets--more than 35 Starlinks in the full-frame photo.
"The 'Starlink Zone of Maximum Reflection' appeared right in front of the comet," says Bush. "Stacking 30-second exposures helped alleviate the satellites, but they're still there."
Bush's photo is no fluke. In the past year, the number of comet photos criss-crossed by satellites submitted to our gallery has jumped more than 10-fold. The actual counts are certainly greater. Many astrophotographers use software to remove the streaks (e.g., StarXTerminator and Cosmic Clarity), then submit the scrubbed photos without mentioning that they were photobombed.
Sometimes, Starlink is the point: "Like any good astrophotographer, I was out in the pre-twilight hours of April 15th photographing Comet PanSTARRS," says David Blanchard of Mormon Lake, Arizona. This is what he saw:
"Having Starlink satellites move across the image is expected these days -- but I was not expecting this!" he says. "Some of the Starlinks were as bright as Venus." (They had launched only 6 1/2 hours earlier and were still in extra-bright low orbits.)
Comet PanSTARRS is especially vulnerable to photobombing. It hugs the morning horizon in a patch of twilight sky where Starlinks are outside of Earth's shadow. There, the satellites do a great job reflecting high-altitude sunlight into telescopes.
The Space Weather Photo Gallery is 10+ years older than the Starlink program, and it contains phenomena of all types--from Auroras to Zodiacal Lights. We find that comet photos are disproportionately susceptible to interference. Comets tend to be close to the sun, where Starlinks are brightest, and the field of view + exposure time of a typical comet photo is perfect for catching satellites.
Ultimately, SpaceX plans for 42,000 satellites. Note to the Editor: Next year, re-title this piece "The Good Old Days."
more images: from Mary Beth Kiczenski of Moab, UT; from Mike Olason of Tucson, Arizona; from Larry Stevens of Portal, AZ; from Horst Peter Franzen of Flugplatz Senheld, Vulkaneifel, Germany
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biolabs danger
WTF!?!?! They were right when they said there would be chaos, at the end of empire, and here we are...
Iran’s Biolabs Face Imminent Containment Failure
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President Trump has given Iran until Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET (today) [now extended]
to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face the destruction of every power
plant and bridge in the country. At a White House press conference, he
said:
“Every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o’clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again.”
Iran’s known and suspected biological weapons facilities depend on the same power grids and transport links that the White House has promised to destroy. If “Power Plant Day” happens, the consequence nobody is discussing is this: multiple dual-use biological facilities in Iran face simultaneous containment failure.
How Infrastructure Strikes Trigger Biolab Failure
Biological agents stored in research facilities require constant refrigeration, negative-pressure ventilation, and trained personnel oversight. These are not optional — they are the systems that prevent pathogens from escaping into the environment. Destroy the power grid and you destroy the cold chain. Destroy the bridges and you cut off the personnel who maintain containment. The biolab doesn’t need to be struck directly. The containment fails on its own.
Although these facilities typically have on-site emergency diesel generators and battery backup systems, these redundancies are designed only for short-term outages. Generator fuel supplies usually last between 24 and 72 hours at most. When power plants across the country are destroyed and key bridges are severed, diesel resupply becomes impossible, maintenance crews cannot reach the sites, and personnel may be unable or unwilling to remain on duty amid the chaos. Once the backup systems fail, negative pressure ventilation collapses, refrigeration units warm up, and biological containment is lost — even without any direct strike on the laboratories themselves.
If containment fails, materials that could be released include anthrax, plague bacteria (Yersinia pestis), botulinum toxin, and aflatoxin — agents repeatedly linked by U.S. intelligence and NCRI reports to Iran’s dual-use programs. Some facilities are also suspected of bioregulator research for incapacitating or lethal effects. While many cited agents have limited person-to-person spread, pneumonic plague is highly contagious and has caused past pandemics; it could trigger rapid regional or global outbreaks. Due to dual-use cover and limited transparency, secret or genetically modified pathogens with enhanced transmissibility or virulence cannot be ruled out.
Iran’s Biological Weapons Infrastructure
Iran almost certainly possesses biological weapons research capabilities. The U.S. State Department has assessed that Tehran retains the flexibility to convert legitimate research into lethal biological weapons production. The ODNI assessed in March 2025 that Iran “very likely” aims to continue R&D of biological agents for offensive purposes. These capabilities sit within a network of military-affiliated universities, IRGC-linked research centers, and dual-use pharmaceutical institutions — deliberately embedded in civilian infrastructure to blur the line between public health and weapons work.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists confirmed that the Shahid Meisami Research Complex, Imam Hussein University, and Malek Ashtar University have all sustained strike damage across the 2025 and 2026 campaigns. The Pasteur Institute — Iran’s century-old vaccine and infectious disease center, but also flagged by Japan and Britain as a biological weapons proliferation concern — was severely damaged on April 2.
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Biological containment depends on electricity, refrigeration, ventilation, and personnel access — all of which collapse when you destroy a country’s power grid and bridges. If “Power Plant Day” happens tonight, multiple dual-use biological facilities in Iran could face simultaneous containment failure.
[…]
Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-biolabs-face-imminent-containment-failure/5921636
is this why I have a headache?
WTF
TEN THOUSAND STARLINKS: On March 16th, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying 25 Starlink satellites. It was a routine launch for SpaceX, the 33rd of 2026. But those 25 Starlinks crossed a milestone. For the first time in history, more than 10,000 Starlink satellites were simultaneously circling Earth.
Click to view of dynamic plot of Low-Earth Orbit from Heavens Above
Consider where we started: When SpaceX launched its first operational Starlinks in May 2019, there were roughly 2,000 active satellites of all kinds orbiting Earth. Starlink alone now outnumbers the entire pre-2019 fleet five to one. The constellation has utterly transformed the orbital environment.
The numbers are sobering. Since 2019, more than 11,596 Starlinks have been launched. Of those, more than 1,500 have already reentered the atmosphere as SpaceX retires older satellites to make room for newer models. Each re-entry deposits about 30 kg of aluminum oxide into the upper atmosphere--an uncontrolled chemistry experiment on a planetary scale.
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