"Don't worry, you can just build one on the moon. You can even pay me to use my rockets to get there." - Elon
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
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Takes money. Does nothing. China builds lunar science complex with particle accelerators and all the cool shit.
Capitalism!
I'm confused because band pass filters exist. Can they not add a filter to eliminate the frequencies that starlink uses?
Also, the starlink satellites use phased array antennas, guess that wasn't a great idea either.
That works great unless you're specifically looking for results in those frequencies.
It's the equivalent of trying to look for a red laser pointer dot on a wall and some jackass put red floodlights in front of you aimed at the wall.
The quote says "it will stop us doing science in that spectrum."
They can filter out starlink's frequencies. What else does that filter out? If the radio telescope uses that spectrum, they can't filter it out and continue to do their work. As I understand, this would be all radio telescopes looking within our solar system.
Space pollution frustrates me because there's truly nothing I can do about it. Maybe someone will democratize a laser or something to shoot down these bullshit non-science satellites, like some Johnny Pneumonic shit, or was it Escape from L.A., no, it was Congo.
*Bandstop filters
Shouldn't the FCC have a say in this?
Yes, that completely destroys the information in that band. That is the point, the satellites are using these bands, overpowering what was already naturally there.
Great. Musk is building a Sophon.
I'm sure Musk is perfectly willing to turn certain constellations off at specific times... For a price, of course.
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