Or we could regulate the reflectivity of satellites. No one is suggesting we don’t have satellites. Why don’t we do satellites on purpose in a way that still allows us to also do effective astronomy?
No one is suggesting we shouldn’t have satellites.
Many astronomers suggested exactly that, they were against the approval of starlink.
we could regulate the reflectivity of satellites
Starlink has been doing that for 3 years now. There are limited to how nonreflective they can get the satellites.
Standard issue Musk brain rot.
“Shouldn’t have satellites” at all vs. “maybe let’s not approve this one corporation doing this completely unregulated activity.” If you really can’t tell the difference between those two things, I can’t help you.
“limited to how nonreflective they can get the satellites”
Citation needed.
A billionaire apartheid prince says it can’t be done, and no one that works for him wants to say otherwise because they don’t want to be fired.
Love how you also completely ignore the dozens of other companies designing and/or beginning deployment of massive satellite constellations just like Starlink.
There very much are astronomers that have said they do not want ANY LEO satellite constellations.
This isn’t just a Musk thing.
beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 1 year ago
They can’t make them non-reflective enough to not interrupt really deep observing. Also, that just shifts the problem around. If they are absorbing in the visible, they will likely have huge amounts of blackbody radiation in IR, sub/millimeter, and radio. You would need to make a satellite out of dark matter to not interrupt astronomy.
UlyssesT@hexbear.net 1 year ago
How about not putting a bunch of janky constantly-needing-replenishment satellites into orbit to begin with where the only real beneficiaries outside of bullshit “remote” excuses is the US military?