Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "" video.

  1. I'm totally with you on that imagined future! Hopefully it will come to pass, and sooner than we may think. As for all these proposed satellite networks, the biggest thing that stands out for me is that none of them are intended to be permanent. For instance, Starlink satellites will apparently be de-orbited and left to burn up after five to seven years, and hopefully all the other proposed networks will have similar limited lifetimes. If the development of these networks follows the development of similar systems on Earth, there will probably be an initial proliferation followed by a gradual and steady winnowing out process, until we're eventually left with one or maybe two competitors that have the market carved up between them. This will still lead to thousands of little satellites orbiting up there, but it will eventually be far less than the complete free-for-all that seems to developing now. It'll make astronomy more difficult, but after an initial burst of almost ridiculous proliferation, the number of satellites will settle down into a more steady and limited number dictated by economics. So the difficulty won't keep increasing without limit. And when there's only one or two big providers it may be easier to negotiate things like the "science loss" tax you mentioned with them.
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