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

• 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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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, I think millions of people around the world shouldn’t have their access to a public good limited by the decisions of two billionaires from one country. I don’t think that’s a particularly strange take?

        If there are going to be tens of thousands of satellites fucking up everyone’s views of the sky, that should be at least be done with some attempt to gain a social licence first.

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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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      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Again, read the article, you utter moron. Musk is incapable of doing this, and neither is the concept itself. That has literally nothing to do with me. Stop attempting to act correct by not even making a valid point.

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