[ashneo76]

How many of those who are saying that this is for the greater good could be bothered to call up and fight for local fiber. Comcast and ATT spend billions in a town and stall that and that ad campaign gets you side tracked.

Your inabilities at distinguishing the fake from truth shouldn't take away the night sky from all of us.

Go fight the big companies instead of sitting here and talking. Start a local WISP.

Stop waiting for the billionaires to save you.

This is exactly how the rich stay rich. By dividing us and preying on the natural resources.

Nobody goes and fights BSNL in India or the local telecoms in Philippines to establish better wireless links.

This is basically moving the goalposts from one duopoly to another one soon.

For those that haven't seen the sky, go take a trip to natural park. This is akin to saying, I don't use sea water because it is salty. Let some company mine to for oil, because it is for the "greater good"

Nobody should be apologizing for a company. Companies as is cause as much harm as possible. We need better regulation to put checks in these comments and rich ass billionaires who think the world is their toy.

[dang]

Can you please make your points on HN without fulminating? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Flamewar rhetoric leads to less interesting discussion.

[supperburg]

I want a mesh of satellites around the earth. I’m a normal guy who’s has wanted that before anyone was doing it. I don’t think I was brain washed by the billionaire sat mesh propaganda, probably because it doesn’t exist. Huh.

I don’t think your position is very strong. Your team isn’t very large. The vast majority of people live in super light polluted areas, light pollution that takes a way bigger bite out of the night sky than sats ever will. And they don’t seem to care. Plus you have the fact that this emerging space industry, the only part of which you seem to be able to appreciate is low earth orbit, will bring people closer to space than ever before. So who are you to deny space and astronomy enthusiasts of the future the opportunity to actually be in space and experience the stars from there?

For real. Minimal changes to the night sky especially for people (majority) who aren’t into space. Revolution in prices that cascades to space telescopes and actual space tourism and multi planetary society. have you lost your mind?

[ORioN63]

> I want a mesh of satellites around the earth.

I assume your motivation is (alongside with a bunch of us), "bring people closer to space than ever before", but you have provided no evidence, that polluting low earth orbit with arguably redudant satellites is a good approach.

You seem to imply that it will lead in "revolution in prices". I too, commend SpaceX for the landing boosters, but for now it doesn't reduce the price nowhere near enough to let humanity approach the space age. Starlink comparatively, IMO does nothing.

Space tethers, anyone?

[foobiekr]

There's a big difference. We can (and should) fix light pollution incrementally. Once we are dependent on satellite arrays, we will never fix it.