<story><title>SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00041-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fastball</author><text>What &lt;i&gt;useful&lt;/i&gt; science has been achieved in the last 100 years thanks to astronomy?&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, what kind of useful science do you think can be facilitated by globally accessible high-speed internet? The value generated by such a network is clearly orders of magnitude more useful than observing the cosmos, at this juncture of human endeavor. Not too mention that Starlink will allow SpaceX to re-invest more and more money into space launches &amp;#x2F; space travel. I&amp;#x27;d much prefer humans actually visit other celestial bodies rather than just staring at them.</text></item><item><author>Mangalor</author><text>&amp;quot;nonsense reasons&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;You mean...&amp;quot;Science&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>ZhuanXia</author><text>Astronomers will have to get used to this. If we ban these for such nonsense reasons, it will be Chinese satellites blocking their view.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BinaryAsteroid</author><text>The internet was created in a particle-physics laboratory: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;World_Wide_Web&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;World_Wide_Web&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the last 100 years, advances in particle physics have been aided by our study of high-energy mechanisms in the universe (nuclear fusion in star systems, supernovae, acceleration of the expansion of the universe, etc.)..&lt;p&gt;so you have internet thanks, in part, to astronomy..&lt;p&gt;what a silly comment..</text></comment>
<story><title>SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00041-4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fastball</author><text>What &lt;i&gt;useful&lt;/i&gt; science has been achieved in the last 100 years thanks to astronomy?&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, what kind of useful science do you think can be facilitated by globally accessible high-speed internet? The value generated by such a network is clearly orders of magnitude more useful than observing the cosmos, at this juncture of human endeavor. Not too mention that Starlink will allow SpaceX to re-invest more and more money into space launches &amp;#x2F; space travel. I&amp;#x27;d much prefer humans actually visit other celestial bodies rather than just staring at them.</text></item><item><author>Mangalor</author><text>&amp;quot;nonsense reasons&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;You mean...&amp;quot;Science&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>ZhuanXia</author><text>Astronomers will have to get used to this. If we ban these for such nonsense reasons, it will be Chinese satellites blocking their view.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SiempreViernes</author><text>We pretty much &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; globally accessible high speed internet though, and poverty is the main factor blocking significant further access, not mountains.</text></comment>