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If it’s cheap and easy to fill the night sky with satellites, the obvious implication is that it will also be cheap and easy to do astronomy from space, and you
by philwelch 3y ago
If it’s cheap and easy to fill the night sky with satellites, the obvious implication is that it will also be cheap and easy to do astronomy from space, and your “extremely precious and expensive” telescope time could be on a satellite outside the atmosphere in the first place. This is an entirely transitory issue and instead of trying to deprive people of internet access, astronomers should be working together on launching their own satellite megaconstellation.
- bmitc 3y ago> obvious implication is that it will also be cheap and easy to do astronomy from space That's so beyond false it's difficult to even respond to. Do you understand the size of the telescopes, both optical and radio? Do you understand the complexity of space-based instruments like the James Webb and Hubble telescopes?
- philwelch 3y agoThe complexity of Webb is almost entirely a consequence of the limitations of its launch platform. You have absolutely no conception of what a post-Starship world is going to look like.
- AlgorithmicTime 3y ago[dead]
- thot_experiment 3y agoOptical band interferometry is gonna happen eventually, perhaps directly as a result to advances in optical interlinking being pursued by starlink right now.