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The age of plausibly buying a legacy is gone, so these vanity projects inspire more cynicism than anything else.
I am not understanding how this is bad. Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants. Or is that the whole reason?
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I forget why he’s a villain. Did he do something at Google? He’s sort of a lesser known figure to me.
Eric Schmidt is, in his own words, an arms dealer now and is driving the R&D of autonomous A.I. weapons.
As you can see by the name of the thing, they are married
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-13439603/eric-...
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Eric Schmidt is, in his own words, an arms dealer now and is driving the R&D of autonomous A.I. weapons.
For the vast majority of non pacifists, that is not a bad thing.
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The planet will be just fine. It measures consequential time in many millions of years. You mean: support saving humanity.
I mean, yeah. When people way saving the planet they mean saving humanity. That's exactly it. A barren rock does no one no good. I don't get it why people hang onto this expression, it's as if you heard that George Carlin bit and now that's your anchor to reality.
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From the website: “The Lazuli Space Observatory is a 3-meter–class space-based astronomical facility designed for rapid-response observations and precision astrophysics across optical and near-infrared wavelengths.” And we wall should be happy he doesn’t want to put a swarm of micro telescopes into the sky to mimic his approach for the ground based telescopes. The last thing astronomy needs is even more satellite con…
During the actual night sky, you don't see satellites.
As civilization moves into space, it will have to be visible! Imagine if cities were only allowed it they were invisible. Let's not be this stupid!
That said, I'm sure a lot can be done to minimize reflections using paint and materials.
Lots of weird marketing speak on here for an astronomical observatory. “Modular design that leverages economies of scale” what? These are telescopes, not telephones. There’s a very small amount of scientific grade ones in existence and they are all different. Best of luck to them anyway. Edit: it looks like the Argus array at least is a project out of Chapel Hill. Better info here: https://argus.unc.edu/specification…
Have you not been following modern satellite and telescope bus architectures? Both planet and spacex have been using this model to great effect over the last decade.
Lots of weird marketing speak on here for an astronomical observatory. “Modular design that leverages economies of scale” what? These are telescopes, not telephones. There’s a very small amount of scientific grade ones in existence and they are all different. Best of luck to them anyway. Edit: it looks like the Argus array at least is a project out of Chapel Hill. Better info here: https://argus.unc.edu/specification…
> what? These are telescopes, not telephones. There’s a very small amount of scientific grade ones in existence and they are all different. Have you not been following modern satellite and telescope bus architectures? Both planet and spacex have been using this model to great effect over the last decade.