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This exactly. Satellites are incredibly useful and enable trillions of dollars of worldwide economic output that would not be possible otherwise. This is a ve
by CydeWeys 6y ago
This exactly. Satellites are incredibly useful and enable trillions of dollars of worldwide economic output that would not be possible otherwise. This is a very meaningful improvement in everyone's lives. We should not stop using them simply because they are visible in the night sky, and make astrophotography a little bit harder (though not much harder -- removing satellite streaks is a default enabled option in astrophotography image stacking software).
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoIts notntrillions, and should be done ina way that does not ruin other people's jobs
- CydeWeys 6y agoI don't think you realize how much economic productivity is enabled by telecommunications satellites, GPS, earth-watching satellites, and more. Even just having a better grasp on the weather is worth many, many billions of dollars annually worldwide. Let alone GPS and knowing where you actually are (and how valuable that is to practically any business that operates in the real world; we're even talking things as far-flung as automated tractors in agriculture that are enabled by GPS).