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Re:How satellite ‘megaconstellations’ will photobomb astrono... by gambiting on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:22AM (#24292083)
>>Someone had a great idea, we tax all bright objects put in orbit

Well, couple small problems with this idea

1) who collects the taxes? I can imagine some international agency in charge of it which then proceeds to spend the money on other international projects, but how could you guarantee compliance?

2) Countries which are only now starting to launch things into orbit would(rightfully) say - hey, how is that fair? Others have been able to launch thousands of satellites for free, but now that we finally got the capability to do so, we have to pay? Why?

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Re:How satellite ‘megaconstellations’ will photobomb astrono... by simion314 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:30AM (#24292144)
1) we can make an international project to put some telescopes in space, nobody should be excluded because politics, should be only scientists.

2) this always happens, look at intellectual rights. The country with the bigger army forces the rest to play by their rules.

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