Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies

SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Further ruin the night sky.

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  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah it’s totally ruined. I can’t even see the sky anymore at night.

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    • soren446@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bruh, are you really going to prioritize a singular type of hobby photography over access to a vital service such as the internet for millions of people? That’s prime NIMBYism.

        They’ve done plenty to help mitigate issues with terrestrial observatories. You could just as easily argue their rocketry advancements have made space much more accessible for the human race, which offsets any remaining harm to research telescopes.

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      • lefty7283@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        At least for us amateurs satellite trails get completely rejected out during image stacking. They’ll definitely be more of a problem for professional observatories, especially large survey scopes like Vera Rubin

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s significantly less of a concern than assisting in elevating a few billion people out of poverty

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    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Starlink has lifted people out of poverty?

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The internet most assuredly has. Idk about Starlink’s performance at all outside of Ukraine.

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This will not do that. That’s the entire reason they are NOT getting the money.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My post said:

        Quite excited to see what some competition will do in this space (no pun intended) with Amazon’s upcoming deployment.

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• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I imagine Amazon will be the one taking your tax dollars to do business. They famously have no money and need American tax dollars generated by working class labor in order to survive.

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  • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • soren446@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Republicans historically so not want to use their tax money to provide for the “undeserving” both locally and globally.

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