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.