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Generalizing, you're asking the "obvious" question: "these are first-run prototypes, and short-lived, so why not mitigate the brightness in future?" And yes, S
by mncharity 7y ago
Generalizing, you're asking the "obvious" question: "these are first-run prototypes, and short-lived, so why not mitigate the brightness in future?"
And yes, SpX has said they plan to get telescope images to determine the bright bits, and to do the right thing.
On the meta question, of why societal discussion is so far from sane... Well, there are perverse incentives... And it's not like our profession has spent the last few decades working diligently to improve discussion tooling... we've done almost nothing on it at all.
- mncharity 7y agoOn a more upbeat note, Wikum[1] is an example of summarizing threaded discussion (like HN), and Tilda[2] of tagging chat (like Slack). In addition to absorption (painting it "black"), one can also scatter (spread it out), and deflect (shine somewhere you don't care about), shadow, and mask, and otherwise change geometry to change light paths. Optical stealthing of satellites is a thing, with somewhat limited accessible literature. Though there is some[3], seemingly mostly Chinese. [1] http://wikum.csail.mit.edu/ http://wikum.csail.mit.edu/ has examples like http://wikum.csail.mit.edu/visualization_flags?id=23&owner=None http://wikum.csail.mit.edu/visualization_flags?id=23&owner=N... and http://wikum.csail.mit.edu/visualization_flags?id=20&owner=None http://wikum.csail.mit.edu/visualization_flags?id=20&owner=N... [2] https://people.csail.mit.edu/axz/tilda.html https://people.csail.mit.edu/axz/tilda.html [3] https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6412/9/3/193/htm https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6412/9/3/193/htm