I fear this is only the start of it. A minimum of 3-4 constellations more will probably be launched in the near future (Russia, China, EU).
Their obvious dual-use nature makes them tempting, and a military target if a large conflict will take place in the near future. I hope their lower orbit will help any space junk burn up fast.
Hot take: We're in the first stages of building our own Dyson sphere and therefore comets are only useful in the context of capturing them for that purpose.
The idea of a Dyson sphere is that it's built around a star, in attempting to capture and utilize 100% of its energy output. So a shady shell around the Earth is not "the first stages" of a Dyson sphere, because our energy source is on the other side of the shell, and the orbits are completely different.
Sure it is - we build a sphere around our planet to harvest every erg of energy hitting it, and then use that to create and flatten the disc that is one of many we'd need to build to construct the sphere ..
I, a taxpayer, would rather have a cellphone signal in a remote location than lots of amazing pictures of a comet. And I just don't see a solution or compromise that could work. The utility of neat picture vs full cell signal in a Montana canyon cannot be won by taking more pictures and showing me the problem. I made my decision already.
We do not need Starlink! It only provides service to 9 Million! People
We are a planet with 8 Billion People.
Do i want cheap and reliable internet everywhere and perhaps work remote? Yes. Should someone like Musk destroy our look into space for just me and my use case? No.
Why doesn't the comet "streak" also, given the Earth's rotation? 10 minutes is a long enough window to have an appreciable impact on the comet's image. Or is it the case that the telescope is stabilized to the Earth's rotation?
FWIW, if you actually want to photograph a comet or anything that doesn’t move in the sky, you’d take multiple exposures that would make the moving light sources like satellites disappear. Taking HDR photographs like this has an number other benefits as well.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 38.2 ms ] threadTheir obvious dual-use nature makes them tempting, and a military target if a large conflict will take place in the near future. I hope their lower orbit will help any space junk burn up fast.
Is the camera exposure taking a few seconds of break between takes that get stacked later with some "missing" moments in between?
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We are a planet with 8 Billion People.
Do i want cheap and reliable internet everywhere and perhaps work remote? Yes. Should someone like Musk destroy our look into space for just me and my use case? No.
(telescopes in space looking outside should have happened long ago, lets just get it done man)
You mean the obvious object (ball shaped head with a tail) in the center of the image?
That was super hard.