Comments by "" (@danielwhyatt3278) on "Elon Musk's satellites 'blocking' view of the universe | BBC News" video.

  1. To be entirely frank, I’m not really bothered by this. Astronomers have been relying too much on ground-based radio receivers for far too long now. I understand, it is easier to just build on the ground versus using systems in space, but honestly, we have been using ground-based radio receiving dishes For many decade now and there has been very little to know advancement in the technology as there are just so many limits when using it within a thick atmosphere that earth has in the first place. For the general public, outside of any sort of furthering research, radio receivers to try and analyse things in space are not important at all. Certainly not for environmental studies. So honestly this is less of a problem and more of an opportunity (in the wider scope of things) to actually try and push past simply relying on earth as a receiving point and actually try and go out in space and try and get the backing to get it done. SpaceX for one could be a very good option for this in the future if Starship truly does function as intended, to get equipment up into space. It could be used to assemble dishes up there that could function a lot better beyond the limits of earths atmosphere. Astronomers are constantly complaining about starling, when they themselves aren’t doing anything to actually improve their own systems to get beyond these limitations and are expecting to just get everybody else to do what they want when the world moves on. They need to do the same, and look beyond the limits of our atmosphere that are causing this limitation in the first place, even though it does cost more. The times are changing, and astronomers need to do the same. In the end, they will benefit far greater than just relying on what they’ve already got and somehow expecting different results.
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  2.  @scootergrant8683 Absolutely on point. It’s crazy that people complain about him when there are others who do far worse and aren’t at all open about it and don’t allow any public platforms to actually allow decisions rather than just making decisions out right on their own.
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  3. He’s not trying to do this intentionally. It’s just an unfortunate side-effect. If a strummers wants to get past this, they need to stop constantly relying on platforms that have had limitations for decades, and that should get beyond Earths atmosphere and base systems outside it. Something which starship can actually help with in the first place when that is operational.
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  4. HARDLY
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