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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So you do like that JWST went up and that its a benefit.

JWST is childsplay compared to the kind of telescopes we can put up in space with a rocket like starship at a fraction of the cost.

Instead of a complicated unfolding structure, Starship will be the housing for the mirror, so we'll have a 9m mirror in space with a vastly simpler setup. JWST was 6.5m and will cost more than I believe the entire starship development budget will ever cost.

Next, put a complicated mirror like jwst in starship, and we could probably get it past 20m!

We also get things like starlink or others constellations that provide global internet with a dish, and soon, because of large rockets like starship, global cell coverage.

Global cellular coverage will be incredibly helpful and even save lives.

We can get so much from it, and the cheaper and more reusable it is to get up there, the more we'll be be able to do and learn to do