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Dude, the astronomers don't pay , the public pays. So the people in all the world will have to pay more billions to american companies to workaround the mess t
by simion314 6y ago
Dude, the astronomers don't pay , the public pays.
So the people in all the world will have to pay more billions to american companies to workaround the mess those created. This sounds very mafia like - or Cyber Punk where you can't see the sky or the sun anymore unless you are a billionaire.
Someone had a great idea, we tax all bright objects put in orbit, then there is an intensive to make the satellites less bright and we make the people that pollute pay and not the public.
- gambiting 6y ago>>Someone had a great idea, we tax all bright objects put in orbit Well, couple small problems with this idea 1) who collects the taxes? I can imagine some international agency in charge of it which then proceeds to spend the money on other international projects, but how could you guarantee compliance? 2) Countries which are only now starting to launch things into orbit would(rightfully) say - hey, how is that fair? Others have been able to launch thousands of satellites for free, but now that we finally got the capability to do so, we have to pay? Why?
- simion314 6y ago1) we can make an international project to put some telescopes in space, nobody should be excluded because politics, should be only scientists. 2) this always happens, look at intellectual rights. The country with the bigger army forces the rest to play by their rules.