What are satellites good for anyway? We should get rid of satellites entirely.
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Wasn't April 1 yesterday? 🤔
Location services are useful.
Yeah, totally worth a bazillion dollars and gigantic surveillance apparatus just because Joe can't follow a simple map or ask someone in the streets how to get somewhere.
I think first of all it is useful for commercial activities.
Although I suspect the military sector is the main reason they exist from the beginning, like many other technologies (well, the internet...).
Btw, GPS & co technically can't monitor anything, they are push-only.
An interesting stat: approximately only 1.27% (133 of 10,500) of all satellites in orbit are related to global positioning services.
GPS is used by many many many many many things, civilization would probably grind to a hold without it at this point. Also GPS is not surveillance, a gps chip/antenna just listens to pings and figures out where it is based on that
Down with Satellites!
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if we get rid of satellite , how can we see America landscape from Africa ? or see Paris landscape from Philippine ? or see pacific ocean from the red sea ? People travelled the world through the eye of satellite .
We have Bitcoin nodes up there though!
Elon sad noises... Ok, I'll bite the shitposting trap 🤣
Satellites are vital for scientific research in certain fields, as well as for defense, disaster management, space exploration, navigation, and even some valid cases of communication. We certainly don’t need a satellite constellation as massive as Starlink, companies are using satellite-based internet as a crutch instead of developing proper infrastructure.
That said, we do need alternatives to GPS that aren’t controlled by a single country. So... maybe drastically reduce the US and Musk’s stake in the game? Getting rid of satellites entirely would set back human development. Getting rid of some of Musk’s satellites might actually be a good idea, considering the amount of space junk they’re creating for very little value.
The first paragraph sounds like an AI-generated answer with a list of things we don't really need and that would not exist if not for massive government (i.e. stolen money) subsidy.
Lol, no AI help coming up with the list above. This is not LinkedIn 🤣. To be fair, I already sounded like ChatGPT way before it was invented (minus the em dashes) hehehe.
And I disagree. I find knowing where a hurricane is, getting a heads up if a tsunami or wildfire is likely going to reach my house, or even knowing how the latest oil spill is spreading all pretty useful information. Also, I don’t want to send humanity 100+ years back in fields like astronomy.
Satellites are just tools. If humans choose a model of surveillance and centralised control, that’s on us, not the satellites. It’s hard to make decentralised alternatives work given current prices and incentives, but fundamentally there’s nothing stopping a Nostr-equivalent for satellites.
Sanity, increasingly rare on nostr.
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It is a 400 billion dollar a year industry. Communications, GPS, videos, defense.
why would you want to get rid of them?
Making it harder for alien invaders to chart a clear path to earth. They're basically a minefield alongside all of the other space junk.
ALL satellites??
Keeping track of all the chemtrails. Way too hard without satellites
Hi fiatjaf 🤟😉🏴☠️ Satellites play a crucial role in global communication, weather forecasting, navigation systems, and even the functioning of the internet. Without them, we’d lose critical infrastructure that supports everything from GPS to satellite internet. Getting rid of satellites would mean a huge step back in terms of technological advancement. While it’s always good to question and innovate, completely eliminating them could create more problems than it solves.
They are for blanketing the planet in low intensity SHF radiation
That’s provided there are actually satellites and not just balloons or antennas fixed to the dome
How else are we going to spy? 🔭
What has the Moon done to you?
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Just some of the things that crossed my mind:
- GNSS positioning (huge impact on logistics)
- Structure monitoring (disaster prevention)
- Precision agriculture (helps feed millions of people)
- Groundwater and watershed monitoring (agriculture, water supply for cities and so on)
- Weather forecast (agriculture and natural disaster prevention)
- Wildfire monitoring (self explanatory)
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Slaves were also essential to many industries.
Satellites for deep space are man-made Earth wingmen, some frigates, some radar boats. And for internally, just as most people today rely on smart wearables to monitor their health, the Earth needs, what could be considered, a planetary-orbiting smart bracelet. Yes, of course, it's also a planetary-level CCTV system.
More like surveillance platforms. Just another way for the Deep State to watch you.