Comment on A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week

espentan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Did you read the part where this is a radar satellite designed for monitoring the climate? That is, did you read anything besides the headline before you decided “yeah, I think I’m able to make informed commentary about this”?

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Did you miss the /s?

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t know why you’re assuming their ‘/s’ is alluding to sarcasm around this being surveillance versus sarcasm around needing more surveillance. “We need more surveillance (we actually don’t)” seems to be indicated here, not “This is surveillance (it actually isn’t)”.

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Why not both?

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  • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A lot of technology has been repurposed for other uses than what they were mutually designed. What’s to stop the operators from using such a high def satellite to spy on people?

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    • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Probably because it’s too cheap and primitive? Why use something not specially used to spy on people when you already have significantly designed satellites with a bigger budget and better technology?

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  • espentan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Like others have pointed out, It was indeed very much tongue-in-cheek.

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