[foxglacier]

Why are so many people just desperate to imagine environmental, economic, or social harm from any new technology or ambitious projects? Are you all just too old to enjoy the thought of an amazing future that's better than today? Or are you too brainwashed by the negativity in the media and think disasters are the only things that can happen? Or are you just bitter about life and can't have any hope? Or do you just feel smug being a nay-sayer to anything ambitious?

[tzs]

> Why are so many people just desperate to imagine environmental, economic, or social harm from any new technology or ambitious projects?

Rockets aren't new technology and they are not imagining the environmental harm. It has been known for a long time. It is just that with only ~300 launches per year (and about 35000 launches ever) the harm has not risen to the level of something that has to be limited.

A million data center satellites is a significant increase in that harm. Furthermore data center satellite are expected to have a service life of maybe 3-5 years so there will be an ongoing 200-370k replacements needing to be launched. That's 3.3-6.2k launches per year at 60 satellites per launch.

[foxglacier]

You need to quantify this "significant" amount of harm otherwise all you're saying is "doing any activity causes harm to something so doing more of that activity causes more harm" which applies to absolutely every activity. You would only point that out if you're feeling negative, not because it means something.