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

• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  True, that is how we got unit 731.

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• cole@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dude is so cartoonishly evil that it hurts

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To these people, human joy is an indulgence for the weak.

        You know how over-exaggerated cartoonish villains will talk about how love and caring make you weak? Basically that.

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  • bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • cole@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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