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> it's simply impossible to place them in space I bet once it's no longer practicable to host them on Earth, hosting them in space will become possible. Somet
by InsomniacL 2y ago
> it's simply impossible to place them in space
I bet once it's no longer practicable to host them on Earth, hosting them in space will become possible.
Sometimes, removing the easy option gets people solving problems they had no incentive to solve previously, and this can lead better outcomes.
obviously other times that doesn't happen but I'm an optimist.
- _djo_ 2y agoNo, it'll just mean we get less astronomy done, because the cost of doing any sort of astronomy will be far more expensive and the opportunities much more limited. The SKA is already an enormously expensive project that took decades to create and is at the very edge of our signal processing capabilities even using the highest capacity fibre-optic data networks and supercomputers. Deploying the same type of array in space is decades away at current technology levels.