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" she makes a concrete recommendation: shifting focus to astronomy as a better way to observe high energy particle physics " Each starlink launch makes this ta
by irthomasthomas 5y ago
" she makes a concrete recommendation: shifting focus to astronomy as a better way to observe high energy particle physics "
Each starlink launch makes this task harder and more expensive. They have chosen a military satellite grid over scientific research :(
- ghusbands 5y agoInside the atmosphere is a terrible place to use telescopes, anyway, so we should use those launches to also get more telescopes into space.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoThis is overly simplistic. Adaptive optics solves a lot atmospheric issues. There are also entire categories of telescopes that it simply makes more sense to keep on earth. Space telescopes are cool and all, but making a space version of something isn't necessarily better, even in a future with rapidly declining launch costs.