Even the rockets and global satellite internet thing that objectively is kind of awesome is completely ruined by just having the worst people involved.
Although I guess it’s classic USA to have your rockets being built by Nazis.
Just wanted to point out how awesome Tom Lehrer (wikipedia) is as a musician/satirist/teacher as well as just a decent human – he relinquished all copyright ownership over his music catalog and currently* has his songs, sheet music and lyrics available for free download at https://tomlehrersongs.com/.
Here’s the link to Wernher Von Braun where the parent lyrics come from.
*At the bottom of the homepage is the note:
NOTICE:
THIS WEBSITE WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT SOME DATE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SO IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING, DON’T WAIT TOO LONG.
Eh, I’m done thinking rockets are awesome. We’re busy burning the one planet we have down and we’re not learning enough in my opinion from space science to be justifying the pollution it creates. The Starlink satellites are creating way more space junk than we need and risk creating a Kessler syndrome.
We can worry about space when we’ve handled climate change and mass extinction and topsoil depletion and so on. Until then, it’s just wasting fucking time and energy.
The Starlink satellites are creating way more space junk than we need and risk creating a Kessler syndrome.
Sorta good news on that front. Starlink satellites are in such a low orbit that without regular boosting of their orbit they re-enter in short measure. The bad news is that means there are hundreds of pounds of e-waste re-entering and burning up on a regular basis and there have been studies suggesting it’s damaging the ozone layer.
Yeah, I’m leaning towards the same, even though I loved all this space stuff as a kid. Not wanting to sound overly dramatic, but it’s like seeing Musk stealing your childhood or something like that.
If only the times we lived in were actually interesting instead of boring, tedious, and deadly.
Even the rockets and global satellite internet thing that objectively is kind of awesome is completely ruined by just having the worst people involved. Although I guess it’s classic USA to have your rockets being built by Nazis.
Just wanted to point out how awesome Tom Lehrer (wikipedia) is as a musician/satirist/teacher as well as just a decent human – he relinquished all copyright ownership over his music catalog and currently* has his songs, sheet music and lyrics available for free download at https://tomlehrersongs.com/.
Here’s the link to Wernher Von Braun where the parent lyrics come from.
*At the bottom of the homepage is the note:
Eh, I’m done thinking rockets are awesome. We’re busy burning the one planet we have down and we’re not learning enough in my opinion from space science to be justifying the pollution it creates. The Starlink satellites are creating way more space junk than we need and risk creating a Kessler syndrome.
We can worry about space when we’ve handled climate change and mass extinction and topsoil depletion and so on. Until then, it’s just wasting fucking time and energy.
Sorta good news on that front. Starlink satellites are in such a low orbit that without regular boosting of their orbit they re-enter in short measure. The bad news is that means there are hundreds of pounds of e-waste re-entering and burning up on a regular basis and there have been studies suggesting it’s damaging the ozone layer.
Yeah, I’m leaning towards the same, even though I loved all this space stuff as a kid. Not wanting to sound overly dramatic, but it’s like seeing Musk stealing your childhood or something like that.