Radio astronomy? psh
People in the outback need to scroll tiktok too!
25 years ago I thought the future held so much promise, and if you had asked me what I would have thought it would be like a quarter of the way into the 21st century, I’d have imagined information and communication would have become mind-blowing.
Instead, it’s all just a big transport system for cramming way more commercialized hype and spammy crap than old media ever could have dreamed of.
I’d rather have gone backward 25 years.
I remember as a kid laying in the yard waiting for the satellite to come around. Once you spotted it you knew it would be back in 90 seconds, if I remember correctly. That was 50 years ago….
That’s the idea. The 24/7 global surveillance umbrella - all Earth, all the time.
These bright, shiny satellites are putting at risk our connection to the cosmos, which has been important to humans for countless millennia
That’s the whole point!
Well, outer space is the place! Hubble has provided amazing images and information for decades. (I so hope NASA takes Elon Musk’s offer to launch an update Hubble mission at no cost to NASA). James Webb Infrared telescope is expanding our reach. On Earth they use multiple radio telescopes to gather data. Why not a radio telescope constellation pointing out into space?
There are several private space stations in the works. Capitalism in space is the way to go.
I’m not sure I see anything wrong here. He is radiating at an allocated frequency (so it’s allowed and necessary for comms satellites to do that) and apparantly he has some equipment that emits electromagetic radiation (everything electronic does) that the super duper sensitive telescopes can see. It sounds like it might be sort of like a guy pointing a high power flashlight into your eyes while a firefly passes by, a human can’t see the firefly but a super sensitive sensor might. But is it illegal for the firefly to fly by or is it just a bunch of astronomers cursing a different tech than they use? Because guess what... space is just going to get more crowded, not less so they need to adapt somehow.
Elon must be using equipment that is over 75 years of age...
Maybe it isn’t a leak but simply additional unknown signals?
Astronomy research = a welfare program for Ph.D. holders.