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Do you think that some people look at this visualisation and leave with the impression that there are city sized satellites flying above them?

XzAeRosho 1y ago
Absolutely. Common sense and critical thinking is less common than you may think.
- the_other 1y ago
  That's in part because "common sense" is an illusion and fantasy.
  - benchly 1y ago
    It's less illusion and fantasy and more code for "what I think." If you notice, it's only uttered by people who believe their own reasoning should be automatically accepted as truth. Ego leaves no room for doubt or embarrassment.
alias_neo 1y ago
> that there are city sized satellites flying above them I don't think this is so much the issue, as much as that I didn't think about it. I opened it and my first thought was wow, it's packed up there. Didn't consider the size of the things it's displaying relative to things on the surface. There is certainly some merit in ensuring that first impression is accurate.
- swiftcoder 1y ago
  > I opened it and my first thought was wow, it's packed up there I mean, it is also pretty packed up there. Considering that a rocket launch has to give every object up there a decently wide berth, it's still a shit ton of moving obstacles that have to be constantly taken into account - the relative size of the gaps between them doesn't really change that equation much.
MarcelOlsz 1y ago
Yeah but I caught myself 3 seconds later.
brazzy 1y ago
Yes. I once overheard a flat earther argue that spare reporting is fake because there are supposed to be tens of thousands of satellites, yet photos from the ISS don't show any of them.
jihadjihad 1y ago
My dude, some people look up at the sky and see airplane contrails and clouds and conclude all sorts of outlandish nonsense.
renewiltord 1y ago
Enough HN users are retarded enough that they'll start talking about Kessler syndrome because they don't understand what they're looking at.

XzAeRosho 1y ago

Absolutely. Common sense and critical thinking is less common than you may think.

the_other 1y ago
That's in part because "common sense" is an illusion and fantasy.
- benchly 1y ago
  It's less illusion and fantasy and more code for "what I think." If you notice, it's only uttered by people who believe their own reasoning should be automatically accepted as truth. Ego leaves no room for doubt or embarrassment.

alias_neo 1y ago

> that there are city sized satellites flying above them I don't think this is so much the issue, as much as that I didn't think about it. I opened it and my first thought was wow, it's packed up there. Didn't consider the size of the things it's displaying relative to things on the surface. There is certainly some merit in ensuring that first impression is accurate.

swiftcoder 1y ago
> I opened it and my first thought was wow, it's packed up there I mean, it is also pretty packed up there. Considering that a rocket launch has to give every object up there a decently wide berth, it's still a shit ton of moving obstacles that have to be constantly taken into account - the relative size of the gaps between them doesn't really change that equation much.

MarcelOlsz 1y ago

Yeah but I caught myself 3 seconds later.

brazzy 1y ago

Yes. I once overheard a flat earther argue that spare reporting is fake because there are supposed to be tens of thousands of satellites, yet photos from the ISS don't show any of them.

jihadjihad 1y ago

My dude, some people look up at the sky and see airplane contrails and clouds and conclude all sorts of outlandish nonsense.

renewiltord 1y ago

Enough HN users are retarded enough that they'll start talking about Kessler syndrome because they don't understand what they're looking at.