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Starlink v2 satelites will ruin science. (feddit.org)
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[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Honestly astronomy from earth is notoriously difficult, for various reasons.

  • there's already a lot of light pollution, due to atmospheric light dispersion, so finding a good spot for telescopes is already difficult.
  • there's the issue that images become blurred, again because atmosphere.
  • We already have telescopes in space, why no re-use them with an additional camera?

Spaceflight is unstoppable at this point. I look at the colonization of Mars like a distillation process: we remove all of the restless assholes and billionaires from Earth, and they leave us and leave us the fuck alone. That's a good thing; We should support it.

[–] CouncilOfFriends 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem is radio wavelengths are much longer than visible light thus the huge size of radio telescopes on earth, which would also make a space-based one a challenge

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