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[-] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

And Apollo was about planting the flag before Russians. Manned spaceflight was never about science.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

Valid, but as a kid, I wasn't thinking about it that way. As an adult, I am.

I just read where Musk has applied to add a network of one million satellites. The current plant for satellites between Space X and others means that 1 in 15 visible objects in the night sky will be satellites.

That's for a total of 60,000 satellites. Musk wants to add one million more. That will mean that there will only be one actual, natural star in every 8-10 visible objects in the night sky. Almost all we will see will be Musk's space junk..

The simple enjoyment of the night sky will be taken from every human now, or who will ever exist in the future. The night sky will be destroyed forever, just so the already richest guy in human history can get even richer. It's more important to indulge him for the cosmic blink of time he exists on this planet, than allow billions of unborn people to ever contemplate the wonder of universe.

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