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Isn't it obvious that this will happen? It's like taking a picture of nature and having airplane evidence in it, or take a picture of a city or even countryside and there are cars in it.

I'm sure the same was said about cars and planes. It will be weird and things will drastically change - but so have things the last 2000+ years.



You can easily get yourself between cars and whatever natural thing you're trying to observe on the rare cases that what you're trying to study is anywhere near cars. The only way to do the same for Starlink is to launch multi-million dollar+ space telescope.


But in that case you have to travel to a remote location (most likely using a car or plane ironically).

Hence, is it so far fetched that if you want to explore space in future you will do it from a different vantage point? Like via a satellite, or maybe in 50 years you go to a space station or the moon directly to do so.

With tech it has always been this way- it's nothing new.


The costs are orders of magnitudes more than simply travelling to study nature where it is and will continue to be hugely expensive for a long long time.


I'm sure people said that about cars, trains and the steam engine also.




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