- Colter Mccorkindale’s comment is the best part.
“Sooo....the stars at night really are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas?”
- I would never have thought of this, but it is really cool. Living in the city with light pollution, we can see a dozen or so on the best nights.
What an ingenious business idea.
- We need more of this. Thanks for making the world more awesome!
- Not, in fact, optical interferometry :(
- sadly won't be possible for anything serious next decade as each space trillionaire and country launches their own 10,000+ constellations
sky will be constantly twinkling, will be weird
we'll have to switch to space telescopes above LEO
- You misunderstand the issue.
Satellites don’t include light sources and there’s nothing to illuminate them when in earth’s shadow.
- I’m seeking funding to open up a rail gun ranch where you can sit in your lawn chair and blow satellites out of the sky.
- Probably legal in Texas? If it's directly over "your land?"
- If your application says it is meant to hunt feral hogs, then they will allow it.
- Feral hogs IN SPAAAAACE!
- Kessler‘s farm?
- I'm thinking of "space roombas" that glide around and bump all the sats in LEO into the atmosphere like a game of pool
Only problem is they are toxic as they burn up and create a lot of pollution
* https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-space-orbit-satellit...
(too bad gravity is impossible to overcome cheaply or do the opposite and yeet into sun)
