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Hope for what? For less starving people? For less child abuse? For less climate change? I look up at the night sky and i want to see stars and the endlessness

Hope for what? For less starving people? For less child abuse? For less climate change? I look up at the night sky and i want to see stars and the endlessness of the universe and don't want to be reminded that Elon Musk will poisen our atmosphere.

Marha01 3mo ago
> For less starving people? For less child abuse? For less climate change? Yes. The only way to truly solve these issues is technological progress.
- zimpenfish 3mo ago
  Not really, all three of them are sociological problems. And, at least for the first and last, we could already have mostly solved them but for the intransigent insanity of various political cults. It's not technological progress we need; it's cultural progress.
  - inglor_cz 3mo ago
    Logistics of food distribution is a technological problem, and nowadays famines tend to happen less due to absolute shortage of food in a wider region, rather than due to insufficiently developed transport infrastructure. IIRC no place in the world which has hard-paved highways has ever seen a peacetime famine. That's almost exclusively the domain of mud road territories. Of course, this is partly a correlation (mud road territories have worse governance and more banditry), but there is causality as well.
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tticvs 3mo ago
Well the only thing that has ever solved starvation is improved technology, child abuse I think has nothing to do with satellites, and managing climate change requires massive energy and technology resources especially in space. So clearly you are in favor of starvation and human suffering due to climate change because of your irrational distaste for seeing satellites in orbit. I suspect the root cause is you've overdosed on propaganda on the internet.
noworriesnate 3mo ago
How is Elon Musk going to poison our atmosphere?
- fragmede 3mo ago
  The Starlink satellites burn up in the atmosphere as they end their useful life. The metals that the satellites are made up of don't vanish in the thin air up there. They burn and just hang up there. Now, whether or not this is an impending disaster is for you to decide, but that's the theory of it.

Marha01 3mo ago

> For less starving people? For less child abuse? For less climate change? Yes. The only way to truly solve these issues is technological progress.

zimpenfish 3mo ago
Not really, all three of them are sociological problems. And, at least for the first and last, we could already have mostly solved them but for the intransigent insanity of various political cults. It's not technological progress we need; it's cultural progress.
- inglor_cz 3mo ago
  Logistics of food distribution is a technological problem, and nowadays famines tend to happen less due to absolute shortage of food in a wider region, rather than due to insufficiently developed transport infrastructure. IIRC no place in the world which has hard-paved highways has ever seen a peacetime famine. That's almost exclusively the domain of mud road territories. Of course, this is partly a correlation (mud road territories have worse governance and more banditry), but there is causality as well.

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tticvs 3mo ago

Well the only thing that has ever solved starvation is improved technology, child abuse I think has nothing to do with satellites, and managing climate change requires massive energy and technology resources especially in space. So clearly you are in favor of starvation and human suffering due to climate change because of your irrational distaste for seeing satellites in orbit. I suspect the root cause is you've overdosed on propaganda on the internet.

noworriesnate 3mo ago

How is Elon Musk going to poison our atmosphere?

fragmede 3mo ago
The Starlink satellites burn up in the atmosphere as they end their useful life. The metals that the satellites are made up of don't vanish in the thin air up there. They burn and just hang up there. Now, whether or not this is an impending disaster is for you to decide, but that's the theory of it.