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Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by mlindner on Saturday July 11, 2026 @03:38AM (#48869704)
The post he was replying to is the reductionist and dismissive take.

And yes progress is good progress.

Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by TimorousBestie on Saturday July 11, 2026 @04:16AM (#48869961)
> And yes progress is good progress.

Many weapons designers thought they were making war “more humane” by creating weapons that killed faster and more decisively.

Haber, on chemical warfare: “The gas weapons are not at all more cruel than the flying iron pieces; on the contrary, the fraction of fatal gas diseases is comparatively smaller, the mutilations are missing.”

Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by skor on Saturday July 11, 2026 @04:24AM (#48870003)
Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by Marha01 on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:08AM (#48870221)
> Many weapons designers thought they were making war “more humane” by creating weapons that killed faster and more decisively.

Do you think the world would be better off if we still killed ourselves with swords instead of drones? The result is the same. A death is a death. The real cause of wars is not "better weapons".

Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by vkou on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:25AM (#48870315)
In that case, isn't the most logical and reasonable way to fight wars would be to immediately use city-killing nuclear weapons?