If I hadn’t known what starlink was the first time I saw it, I would have assumed it was something artificial - the spacing and trajectory is far too regular to be a comet breaking up or something like that.

well, if you could observe these things with the naked eye, they might imagine it's similar to a passing meteor.

You absolutely can see them with the naked eye. Very easy to spot on any given clear night if you know what to look for, especially when they’re moving in a cluster. They don’t look like meteors, far too slow.

I saw them myself with my naked eyes! They look like the iss