unfortunately Scientists have no power, so they are basically begging these companies to work with them to find solutions and the companies just aren’t doing that. The best they can do is twice the maximum brightness scientists have called for, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01238-3 estimates there could be 100,000 of these objects in the sky in the 2030s, 30x the amount we have currently.
astronomy is massively impacted by all of this, just because America refuses to build infrastructure like everyone else does, thanks America. Thanks Musk.
ah yes, the “you used flowery language to make a point and thus I’ll decide that everything you said is wrong!” technique
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06672-7.epdf?sharing_token=N9yAfmt2e_GVtwPy77HJetRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PFsLwdWnqlxtsKwpSN7Boq0-VZBfGQbMetAbo437Wt1qJnPYFLp9WgedI-jqcxrYcV5ukwWY9p_dhA4S6iwLOz0StMV6Cb8k8hS32gEexB7vqsPRwL1C98AnGCP-Fzu88UWpDICmoYy6v0UHlQfJmtQ7r3Hn2SM32YSSCOdCXESf8d6iCXB5WfW1SWH4zKLC0%3D
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acf40c
unfortunately Scientists have no power, so they are basically begging these companies to work with them to find solutions and the companies just aren’t doing that. The best they can do is twice the maximum brightness scientists have called for, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01238-3 estimates there could be 100,000 of these objects in the sky in the 2030s, 30x the amount we have currently.
astronomy is massively impacted by all of this, just because America refuses to build infrastructure like everyone else does, thanks America. Thanks Musk.