News of the Spielberg-esque incident in central Canada piqued the interest of Sawchuk’s neighbour, Dr Sam Lawler, a professor of astronomy at Campion College at the University of Regina. She began to look more closely into SpaceX’s flagship project, Starlink, and what she has evinced is, some might say, alarming.
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