These growing pains suck, but the future of space exploration is in space. Any future of humanity is a future in which earths night sky is filled with stations and spaceships and satellites.
We ain’t flying to anywhere the telescopes are pointing.
The future of astronomy is not in plopping people onto asteroids. That’s the future of mining, and increasingly that future is looking dark and dystopic.
that’s a great vision, but we don’t have to trade ground-based astronomy for space-based astronomy. that would put us in a ‘dark age’ of astronomy for the rest of my lifetime, until all these yet-to-be-launched telescopes get built.
It’s not a great vision, it’s what is happening. It is the very thing that is being complained about in this article and in your comment.
There will be mitigations, and no, it won’t be as good as not having the interference in the first place, but we’re not putting the expansion of space infrastructure and exploration on hold until novel terrestrial observations are exhausted, because that day will never come. So when to rip the bandaid off? Let spacex build their network, let starship go online, let the new lift capabilities drive the price of launches to unseen lows, and let the actual exploration of space begin.
we’re not putting the expansion of space infrastructure and exploration on hold until novel terrestrial observations are exhausted
Who’s we? And who’s doing this exploration?
The privatization of space is not some great move forward for humanity. We don’t need science to bow down and open wide for rich technocrats who adhere to and aspire to the Great Man theory of history.
These growing pains suck, but the future of space exploration is in space. Any future of humanity is a future in which earths night sky is filled with stations and spaceships and satellites.
We ain’t flying to anywhere the telescopes are pointing.
The future of astronomy is not in plopping people onto asteroids. That’s the future of mining, and increasingly that future is looking dark and dystopic.
that’s a great vision, but we don’t have to trade ground-based astronomy for space-based astronomy. that would put us in a ‘dark age’ of astronomy for the rest of my lifetime, until all these yet-to-be-launched telescopes get built.
It’s not a great vision, it’s what is happening. It is the very thing that is being complained about in this article and in your comment.
There will be mitigations, and no, it won’t be as good as not having the interference in the first place, but we’re not putting the expansion of space infrastructure and exploration on hold until novel terrestrial observations are exhausted, because that day will never come. So when to rip the bandaid off? Let spacex build their network, let starship go online, let the new lift capabilities drive the price of launches to unseen lows, and let the actual exploration of space begin.
Who’s we? And who’s doing this exploration?
The privatization of space is not some great move forward for humanity. We don’t need science to bow down and open wide for rich technocrats who adhere to and aspire to the Great Man theory of history.