Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I dunno, every engineer not working on space almost certainly ends up optimizing some sort of ad delivery system. The tech industry is almost completely enshittified.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was thinking more like Climate Change and Infrastructure and suchlike.

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    • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s great, but that comes from funding those things, not shutting down a different industry. It’d be better to shut down non-productive industries like bombing brown kids in the Middle East.

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• Trilogy3452@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This isn’t really space science related, just commercialization. And about focusing on Earth: we should let scientists work on what they’re passionate about, IMO they’ll be more motivated to research their field of choice

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    we should let scientists work on what they’re passionate about

    *fund them

    Why is it always 100x more on useless destruction and military?

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    • Trilogy3452@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      By work I meant study, not necessarily being employed by a company if that’s what you meant

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  • Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    True, that is how we got unit 731.

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  • cole@lemdro.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    SpaceX has developed laundry list of new technology to enable Starlink and other endeavors. It’s silly to discount that as worthless.

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    • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If your scientific discovery disproportionately benefit a few billionaires then it’s worse than worthless.

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      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        AND makes life far worse for literally the entire planet.

        Imagine unilaterally deciding that increasing your already obscene fortune is more important than every living creature that will ever exist in the future having a sky to enjoy, ever again. To these people, human joy is not something worth preserving.

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    • bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      lol just so you know a “laundry list” is a list of bad things.

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      • cole@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not like these ones. I’m almost tired of having this discussion y’all are blinded by hatred.

        First full flow staged combustion engine, dramatically lower launch prices than competitors (cheaper for the government and has enabled more interesting things to go to space), dramatically more access (SpaceX flies multiple times a week!), booster recovery & rocket reuse.

        And again I know everyone really is blinded by their seething rage but starship is going to change the whole landscape again.

        You can hate the man as much as you want, I’m not saying I don’t. But you discredit yourself by not knowing what SpaceX is actually doing.

        I mean, we still wouldn’t have US access to space without SpaceX (Boeing fiasco…).

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• aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not gonna happen. Not with the effective altruist cult running things.

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  • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think you are using altruist right, or I am missing some sarcasm here.

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    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A lot of the ultra wealthy espouse a nonsense philosophy called “Effective Altruism”, which asserts a kind of utilitarian “most good for the most people” ethic, but in such a way that one can basically justify any action as being, eventually, for the most good ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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      • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Including being good to hypothetical, unlikely trillions that may live someday if we colonize Mars.

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• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been really passionate about space. My bday is on the anniversary of the moon landing, and my one aunt has always reminded me of the fact. My great grandfather worked for NASA and my aunt gave me his stargazing binoculars that his brother gave him when he got hired at NASA. That part of my family instilled a huge love of science in me, esp space stuff. I wanna go to space more than anything, but I don’t have the brains or constitution to be an astronaut. So I just daydream, stargaze, and write poems about the cosmos.

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• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Believe it or not, you can do two things at once.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i just tried to chew gum and walk and my personal injury attorney would like to know your address (they think you’re cute)

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Kinda missing the point there.

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Which is?

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  maybe just for this one guy you know

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• betanumerus@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Right. Elon hires people on the basis they’ll be making Mars travel possible, but that Starship is really for dumping metal all over the night sky.

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