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>>12384212

>While I appreciate what spacex is doing to advance spaceflight and international communication, I worry we are losing something essential. That is, a good clear night for research of various cosmic phenomena.

Starlink isn't on a vaccum. The money is being funneled to make launches cheaper to the point that it will just be better to put every single telescope on space instead of doing ground research. I'll take 10-20 years of slightly reduced scientific research to later get a huge boom in them as private companies send entire fucking buildings to space for pennies.