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SpaceX Creates 'Tholian Web' Mega Constellation Of Satellites
SpaceX has launched about sixteen hundred satellites for its Starlink project to provide satellite-based internet service for the planet. See also Starlink Orbital Network Like Coruscant Traffic Jam.
(Mars, the Pleiades and Starlink)
Star Trek: TOS fans see this as eerily similar to the season three episode The Tholian Web:
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