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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Down em all then. We need a satellite with lasers to take out other satellites: whether it's Russia's, China's, or Elon's.

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 2 months ago

Alien 1: "I don't get it, we've been trying to contact them for ages now. You don't think they sacrificed their chance to join the interstellar community in order to have better phone reception or something, did they?"

Alien 2: "Well maybe if you didn't keep sticking probes up their asses, they'd be more communicative!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Don't worry, greed ensures that Kessler Syndrome will get them in the not too distant future. Sure hope you aren't reliant on GPS or other satellite services, but at least, for a shining moment, shareholders got some value. /s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

GPS/GLONASS/Galileo are at ~20,000km vs starlinks ~500km, all the LEO satellites would be fucked but global positioning would be fine. Sounds good to me.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Honestly astronomy from earth is notoriously difficult, for various reasons.

  • there's already a lot of light pollution, due to atmospheric light dispersion, so finding a good spot for telescopes is already difficult.
  • there's the issue that images become blurred, again because atmosphere.
  • We already have telescopes in space, why no re-use them with an additional camera?

Spaceflight is unstoppable at this point. I look at the colonization of Mars like a distillation process: we remove all of the restless assholes and billionaires from Earth, and they leave us and leave us the fuck alone. That's a good thing; We should support it.

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[–] B312 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

What’s up with some meme communities and people not posting memes on them?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Never miss a chance to milk some of those anti-Elon upvotes

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