• @maegul@lemmy.ml
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    3311 months ago

    It feels like we’re approaching a situation where good clean astronomical data is going to have to be collected off-world.

    Like, people in astronomy must be talking about such a scenario and how far away it is and what needs to be done.

    A moon base seems like an obvious solution with dishes and telescopes all over the place.

    • maëlysOP
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      11 months ago

      well polluting earth orbit with parasite radio frequencies is in SpaceX business model favor: that way the scientific communtiy well be obliged to have observatories beyond starlink orbit (ie Leo i think), so u would have to create ur cluster of radio astronomy satellites and would have to contract SpaceX to deliver them for you to the intended orbit…just a guess but one would think this way, since every company is profit driven after all.