Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you people were in charge in the 1800s, you'd ban the industrial revolution and we'd still need slaves for everything.
You don’t think there might be a better solution than having a dozen or more companies all launching thousands of satellites which all perform the same function?
SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites
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#23Should be banned. These companies are destroying a piece of the environment that belongs to all of us - the night sky.
If you people were in charge in the 1800s, you'd ban the industrial revolution and we'd still need slaves for everything.
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#24Should be banned. These companies are destroying a piece of the environment that belongs to all of us - the night sky.
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#25Spec Priority: ability to attach said laser defense instrument to home telescope ... and enable user to blast those madafakkas out of the sky.
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#27This article seems to confuse Starlink with ordinary cellular communications
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#28Let me fix your title: SpaceX wants investors to think that they will be able to launch millions of satellites.
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#29https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Sorry Buck Rogers fan bois, should have left this fantasy in the 1950s...
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#30How long until they turn a constellation into a giant LED billboard, showing commercials for Tesla?