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by estearum 27 days ago
Why would new astronomy infra pay for the Starlink's negative externalities?

Yeah it turns out that "divvy up finite resource" is actually just an intrinsically nightmarish problem when it's something no one intrinsically owns, didn't create, but needs nonetheless, like water and land.

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Well if you build a new telescope where there are already satellites doing their business with no objections, shouldn’t you be required to pay for changes in their business, if the principle is first claimant?