Yeah I'm going to agree with you on this one. It blows my mind that as a species we have changed the night sky. When I was a child seeing a satellite dart across the sky was exciting because it was as rare as a shooting star. Now I look up and see a satellite every few minutes. That said, there have been a few times recently that Star Link was the only method of communication I've had in remote areas. It has been very helpful. I think as poorly of Musk as much as the next person but I can at least recognize the ingenuity SpaceX and Star Link.
Really Starlink should be absorbed into and ran by the UN. We only have so much LEO to use, one company is bound to become a monopoly and LEO is the world's not any nation's property.
The UN has no teeth by design and there's a lot of money to be made privately, what makes you think it would happen?
pipe dream
Perhaps not the UN, but I agree that I am uncomfortable with Elon Musk at the helm. I'd prefer to see an international non-profit take control. Even just a regular boring board of directors, at least then it would be the devil that we know.
Fuck the UN.
Seriously - when you choose a country with vile fundamental human rights abuses as the head of the human rights commission...
Yeah I'm going to agree with you on this one. It blows my mind that as a species we have changed the night sky. When I was a child seeing a satellite dart across the sky was exciting because it was as rare as a shooting star. Now I look up and see a satellite every few minutes. That said, there have been a few times recently that Star Link was the only method of communication I've had in remote areas. It has been very helpful. I think as poorly of Musk as much as the next person but I can at least recognize the ingenuity SpaceX and Star Link.
Really Starlink should be absorbed into and ran by the UN. We only have so much LEO to use, one company is bound to become a monopoly and LEO is the world's not any nation's property.
The UN has no teeth by design and there's a lot of money to be made privately, what makes you think it would happen?
pipe dream
Perhaps not the UN, but I agree that I am uncomfortable with Elon Musk at the helm. I'd prefer to see an international non-profit take control. Even just a regular boring board of directors, at least then it would be the devil that we know.
Fuck the UN.
Seriously - when you choose a country with vile fundamental human rights abuses as the head of the human rights commission...