Did somebody say something about picking through discarded alien tech? ...

As to your first paragraph, I didn’t say he was doing it altruistically. There is a huge market of underserved people and SpaceX happens to be in the right position, with the right technology, to deliver a service no one else is willing to offer at the right price point. He’s going to make a TON of money doing this if…

Maybe it’s the equivalent of alien teenagers screwing around with their version of a cheap DJI Phantom and pranking the locals.

Isn’t the most likely explanation overwhelmingly that it’s technology from Earth (whether other military tech or something else)?

Alien technology in private sector hands, eh?

Have had the same issues, with my astrophotography but easily remedied in post. I wonder how the astronomers feel about this challenge though.

SpaceX has launched 540 satellites into orbit as part of its efforts to bring high-speed internet throughout the world by 2021. The plan, though, is for the company to eventually have tens of thousands of these satellites in space. The company is run by Elon Musk, a billionaire not exactly known for following rules…

People like Elon Musk are why we have many nice things.

And if it follows true to everything else 2020 has brought expect the “Independence Day” version and not the “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” version. (Except of course the bit where the US prez dons flight suit and wins the day.)

It’s never aliens.

PFT. Not before I sell us out first. I’m going to run the company one day.

Well if they’ve been keeping aliens secret, they sure haven’t let Trump in on it. He would have blabbed about it years ago at one of his rallies and complained that they were coming to this country illegally.

The movie Paul specifically talks about this near the beginning... 

I for one welcome my new alien overlords.

This is going to sound like something from Art Bell’s show but part of me feels like the casual nature of recent alien stories, (the videos, etc), are purposefully done to gradually get people used to it. When the big reveal comes the powers that be can just be like “yo, we’ve been saying it was kinda maybe sorta…

> The company is run by Elon Musk, a billionaire not exactly known for... caring about how his decisions impact others.

Thank for posting this, it seems like the author doesn't even know this from the way the article is written.

Stop interfering with the narrative being pushed or back to the grays for you.

Ok, you all realize that that’s a composite image, right? The photographer selected the exposures which had a satellite pass through it and stacked them on top of one another. He could just as easily have selected the ones that didn’t have a satellite.

I definitely think we need to consider limits on commercial space deployment as it interferes with scientific exploration.