"I think that Starlink has the potential to do extraordinary good for humanity," he says. "It's actually worse than just the thermal radiation, which would be bad enough because they're moving and they can't easily be subtracted." The Simon's Observatory is a $190 million project by the time it's done funded by Jim and Marilyn Simons and the Heising Simons Foundation in New York and the Bay Area.

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