Comment on Huge new satellite outshines nearly every star in the sky
mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social 1 year agoi remember when i was a kid, i was hiking with my parents and we spent a night on about 2500m and looking up i obviously had a great view of the cosmos BUT i also could see some satelites moving and even the then MIR space station. i was impressed that "we" are actually up there for everyone down here to see. i guess the current generation want's a pristine night sky AND 24/7 internet, gps and tv.
Why not both? Like we’ve had for…decades.
The current generation, AND the previous generation (that being millennials, many of whom are now in their 40s) both would rather the natural beauty of our entire planet not be destroyed just so the likes of Elon Musk can sell a product.
move out of the city, away from any night light and then just ignore the occasional ring of dots that takes up like 0.00003% of the night sky for the average stargazer; why does everyone now pretend to be copernicus?
It’s just a way to be a doomer and hate on tech, certain groups are desperate to find any excuse to hate anything new.
almar_quigley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A. Why is this a generational thing? I guess you’re a boomer or xer? B. 1 or two satellites or space stations are neat. Your story was from a time when not every company in the world could get something up there with little regulation. C. Yeah, nature is always more beautiful than our creations. Imagine many years from now when there may be so many visible satellites in the sky it’s not a novelty like it was to you as a child. D. This kind of apathy is how we got into the climate crisis today.
mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social 1 year ago
early millennial. it's just funny how many ppl start to become critical about "space junk" since they realized that "twitter man bad" has some of them, ignoring, how dependent they are on all that stuff flying around there. love your sidestep to the current day topic, tho.
End0fLine@startrek.website 1 year ago
People have been talking about space junk for a long time. What are you talking about?
mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social 1 year ago
engineers and the military talked about space junk for obvious reason, but no one lamented working satellites because the antagonist celeb of the month launched them into space.
geogle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
almar_quigley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
lol, you’re an idiot if that’s what you read.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
C. Yeah, nature is always more beautiful than our creations.
I think that’s obviously debatable. Natural things are not innately superior to designed things.