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Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by pera on Saturday July 11, 2026 @08:49AM (#48871613)
In the mid 20th century some people believed urban motorways were "progress" and wanted to build them everywhere, see for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_%28New_York_World%27s...

Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by rvba on Saturday July 11, 2026 @09:00AM (#48871675)
Thank you for sharing this.

This vision is absolutely horryfying, yet at same time incredibly interesting.

Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by pera on Saturday July 11, 2026 @01:09PM (#48873744)
If you wanna look into another example search for the Abercrombie Plan in Edinburgh: it was a very ambitious urbanistic plan to "modernize" this city. For instance they proposed to demolish all of the historical Georgian and Victorian buildings in Princes Street and replace them with brutalist buildings and a motorway.