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This is crazy, so we are seriously adding 8 times the number of satellites without having a clear understanding of the impact this would be on things like... be
by kfk 7y ago
This is crazy, so we are seriously adding 8 times the number of satellites without having a clear understanding of the impact this would be on things like... being able to see soon enough asteroids coming towards Earth?
I don't get it. Why are we going so fast? We don't have to.
- chmaynard 7y agoThis is a classic case of American huckster capitalism. Don't ask permission, don't think about the big picture. Barrel ahead and try to corner the market. The goal is to gain profit at any expense.
- javagram 7y agoWe don’t have a solution for an asteroid coming toward earth anyway right now. It’s not illegal so SpaceX will try and do it and then astronomers can try and adapt. If it turns out to really bad, SpaceX could be forced to deorbit the satellites I suppose, but that seems unlikely.