the fact elon mask genuinely might ruin the night sky for everyone makes me wanna sharpen my shovel and get to work
For those who are confused, SpaceX has been putting a metric fuckton of little sattelites into low earth orbit, and they’re well on their way to making earth-based visual astronomy impossible.
Like, this was a picture taken by an observatory in Arizona
The streaks are all SpaceX satellites. So you can see why that’s a bit of a problem.
Oh, so this isn't just generally shitty because the sky won't look the same, it's undermining and entire avenue of vital scientific inquiry for sake of one company's profits.
