“Starlink” bazinga satellites are low-earth orbit, which means they’ll burn up in the near future… which means more launches are constantly needed to maintain the bazinga satellite network for even more waste production and carbon dumping. The future!
Sounds a lot like what had in mind after going up into space and coming up with… stuff, instead of the usual humility and newfound sense of care for the planet.
I prefer to dream big. Eternal night sky pollution with 20 TW geosynchronous powersats please. Death to Earth based astronomy, or something.
Sounds a lot like what
had in mind after going up into space and coming up with… stuff, instead of the usual humility and newfound sense of care for the planet.
Well powersats would actually be very good for the planet.
A whole lot of technological things would be cool and good if they weren’t entrusted to the worst possible people for the worst possible reasons.
I’m stupid BTW I meant GW not TW