Submitted 2 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
If we can find a way to destroy ONE (or very few) in a catastrophic enough way, it should cascade and destroy everything at the same altitude.
If I knew how, I would gladly take the possible lifelong prison sentence. I could never feel bad again after such an achievement x)
Why not vantablack them? I thought they were already sending prototypes up that aren’t reflective and avoid the light pollution problem.
The real issue is when other countries that don’t give a shit throw stuff up there and we can’t do much about it.
The real issue is when other countries that don’t give a shit throw stuff up there and we can’t do much about it.
Dude, we are the country that doesn’t give a shit and throws stuff up there and we can’t do much about it. WE ARE.
I mean. We shouldn’t probably. But can’t is a pretty strong word for that.
Who needs the night sky when you can download the old night sky via satellite internet with gig speed downloads in vr? /s
Here are the numbers as of March 2026.
This conversation is a waste of time no matter how much of a nazi Elon is.
This is what the sky would be like in the majority of science fiction. If you want space exploration, there will be space infrastructure, and as time goes on that infrastructure will increase both in amount and size, not to mention the traffic to and from.
It is like complaining about the clutter of the marina while wanting to explore the ocean.
I’d almost understand where you’re coming from but most of us can’t afford a ship to explore, a slip in the marina, or even a property/room on the shore. For some of us, staring out at the ocean & capturing images from land is all we have.
Well said.
I can’t afford a boat, but I benefit from the goods and food that they transport.
People want houses, that doesn’t mean they want forests clear cut.
Similarly people want space exploration, that doesn’t mean they want to speedrun Kessler syndrome.
The infrastructure isn’t the only issue here. Its the fact that this is being done by a corporation owned by a nazi, with many other companies looking to compete. So instead of having one set of LEO satellites, we’ll have several.
If this was actually used to benefit humanity the light pollution caused by this would be understandable. But this isn’t being done in a sustainable way, or owned by the people.
And that’s all before considering the detrement to the environment from these satellites constantly burning up in the upper atmosphere.
Can we even get spaceships put if they are a million of those satellites on spaces?
Space is very big. A million is nothing in the grand scheme of things like launching at a specific point.
for everyone on Earth
The people that are doing the actual space exploration aren’t even affected by it!
If all we pick up out of the ocean is flotsam from the marina we’ll get the wrong idea about what’s in the ocean.
Doubtful.
This is just a way for SpaceX to try further integrate itself into the spheres of government and public funding, and thus, make it easier to justify government bailouts.
Monty Burns approves.
I think it’s a waste of time to fight it.
Elon just has to ask daddy Trump and he will get anything necessary to get the autorisation.
I don’t think the Astrophysicists will convince Trump obviously.
Maybe you can’t fight a rocket, but an autonomous taxi on the other hand…
An autonomous taxi can fight a rocket…?
I remember Europe saying the same thing around the 1930s lol
pharceface@retrolemmy.com 2 months ago
Rather than just run some fucking cable like we already have for the grid. It’s determined that we should put a bunch of future space junk into our atmosphere. Even more frustrating is that we can’t recover anything from them, all the resources being wasted on something we can’t even recycle.