Amazon satellites add to astronomers' worries about night sky

Post by saas_sam » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

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Food, material goods, and services are cheaper and more plentiful than they have ever been in human history. Add to that: jobs are easier to discover, self-teach, and contact than they have ever been in human history. For the poor as well as the rich. The main thing people get unhappy about is wealth disparity ie., how much MORE the rich have than the poor. That even today's poor have a rectangle that's effectively a…

Nice narrative. Yes, poors are better in a materialistic way. Now, what about their freedom? Is that also getting better? You might recall the magic rectangle from Farenheit 451...

Post by scroogeydop » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 5:09 PM UTC

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By the time your children are dead, it will still be 100x easier to do anything on earth than it is to do that thing in space. This seems astoundingly obvious.

Ironic given the article is talking about the need to take action to allow the continuation of being able to do this action on Earth itself. Obvious with what the rest of the thread says and the timeline you gave it won't be 100x easier to observe space itself from Earth but instead it'll be easier to observe space from off Earth. Thanks for the obvious point though \s