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[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Do we need SpaceX to succeed? I'd rather they get dissolved and everything given to NASA. If I could have my fantasy world fulfilled, anyway.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Yep, get private companies the fuck out of space.

[-] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I bet we figure out that launching all these satellites into orbit was premature and we've created a new irreversible disaster that private companies knew about but hide from us since they also control social media now

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

In the case of Starlink satellites they're in a low orbit, and will naturally de-orbit after about 5 years, so they won't really be a big space problem in the future.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Astronomers are complaining about light pollution from them

[-] cybermass@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

To be honest I love the idea of the government handling space exploration but (saying this as someone who works directly for a government body) the government is just too slow and ineffective to get space exploration online in the timeframe needed for it to generate new technologies that would help the climate crisis.

It's mostly because of funding and ineffective bureaucracy not lack of talent or capable workers, but it's a problem nonetheless.

In a better world...

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

So streamline it and fund it, don't farm it out.

[-] SomeoneElseMod@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I believe the star link internet is very useful for people living in rural areas or war zones like Ukraine. I honestly don’t about the rest of it.

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