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Scientists, looking deep into space, have long voiced their concerns that satellites are encroaching on their ability to study the cosmos.

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[–] Widowmaker_Best_Girl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The actual sane take. I swear musk is constantly living rent free in way too many peoples minds.

Honestly, what I took from this is we should have more telescopes that operate outside of the orbits of commercial satellites.

[–] Veltoss@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what scientists have wanted anyway, even without the occasional satellite there is a lot of interference. I wouldn't be surprised if they leveraged this to try to get more funding for more of them they wouldn't get otherwise.

I wouldn't mind if my taxes got increased if it meant we had a proper fleet of James Webb-esque telescopes out there.