You do a lot of good for HN with your interesting submissions, but you've also been vandalizing HN with destructive comments for years. We've asked you not to do this many times.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356880
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18887148
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17952388
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17441941
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17432633
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17113849
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17111984
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14693327
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11705439
Eventually the cost outweighs the benefit. I definitely do not want to ban you, so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this? All users here need to have self-control, and experienced contributors more so.
Please don't censor people just because they criticize HN or the community.
I also read the rest of the comments linked as examples and some of them where obvious to me and some were not.
I'm not a native speaker though and I realize dang has a huge advantage there as well as access to see detailed voting statistics to see what riles people up.
By contrast, earth-based telescopes are doing lots and lots of science right now.
One example: https://www.usap.gov/technology/1935/
> Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station uses communications satellites that serve as relay stations, receiving radio signals from one location and transmitting them to another. The United States Antarctic Program utilizes the satellites for the transfer of South Pole science, operational, and weather data, as well as Internet, telephone, and email services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transiting_Exoplanet_Survey_Sa...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/15/musk-on-starlink-internet-sa...
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-internet-satellites-ma...
Great, why doesn't Musk trade in Ivory? There's a tidy profit to be had. Maybe he can donate a couple dollars to PETA, and everything's fine.
> On July 6, 2016, a near-total ban on commercial trade in African elephant ivory went into effect in the United States.
Hard to make a profit when you're shut down by the government.
> Not the greedy entrepreneurs littering the sky with Internet access satellites.
The "littering" will be done not just by "greedy entrepreneurs" but by millions of people who will pay for faster internet, and by astronomers who want better telescopes.
Also, space telescopes are very expensive, so we have a very small number-- we're not going to ever have enough to look at as much of the sky as we'd like to look at. We've got hundreds of thousands of 0.3 meter scopes out there, employed by everything from outright amateurs to citizen-scientists to auxiliary observing and discovery for research astronomers. We can't give all these people time on orbiting telescopes.
The more satellites are launched the more money SpaceX gets to develop starship, starship reduces the cost of launching satellites and increases the maximum volume of the satellite, with cheaper launches and cheaper mirrors that do not need complex folding launching space telescope becomes cheaper than building a telescope on the earth, which means that new telescopes will be built for space.
The idea that private companies can just do whatever, and there's nothing we can do is just so cliché HN.