The main thing is: active Kessler syndrome prevents you from staying in a select orbit, or a group of orbits, long term.

It's not that much of a danger to passing spaceships - the main hazard is to satellites and space stations. You can still reach Moon or Mars with Kessler syndrome ongoing. And it's avoidable even for stationary objects if you don't need a very specific orbit. This is why GEO, the main "very specific orbit", is so tightly regulated - it's one of the worst orbits to lose to Kessler syndrome.

I don't know what exactly are they using, but SpaceX did in fact develop some sort of anti-reflective coating for their sats - after the first batches turned out to be extremely reflective.

Internet is a great boon, especially to people in third world countries. Today, there are people who wouldn't be able to get an education otherwise - but were able to self-educate through Internet. Access to information and access to education used to be some of the greatest inequalities of the world - and Internet does a lot to level the playing field.

"A sky full of galaxies" is just another pretty thing in a world full of pretty things. Internet's benefits go far beyond that.

Kessler syndrome is incredibly overrated. And those megaconstellations sit in LEO - even the sats that die entirely would deorbit from there and burn up within a decade.

SpaceX is not fucking around.

They already dominate the launch industry now - with world-beating performance metrics and a decade worth of technological lead in reusability. They plan to dominate it harder still. Starship, their most ambitious rocket to date, has its first full flight scheduled for ~Q1 2023. Definitely something to look forward to.

I don't think it's a stretch to say that many radicals are similar to each other - not in declared ideals, but in observable methods and behaviors. There's a point when this radical zeal and "anti-establishment" thinking overrides any other thought process.

Which is how radical right and radical left have managed to converge on hating NATO and sucking it up to Putin in many countries. As they did before on COVID restrictions, and long before that on trying to "cancel" media for wrongthink, and before that, and before that. Radicalization is enemy of thinking - which horseshoe theory illustrates.

And people still try to say that horseshoe theory is wrong.

"Innocent until proven guilty" is the first thing that goes out of the window when the court of public opinion is involved.

Above, you see a low effort troll on an obvious throwaway account. Downvote, do not engage.

Often yes. But this one is notable because it manages to be less balls-to-the-wall retarded than the usual climate change hot takes. It at least makes a token effort to remain grounded in fact and not in plain fearmongering.

Especially not when it's spun down. As a hard drive that's not being accessed would be.

Because existing in an arbitrary three-dimensional world is actually hard.

The hardware is quite expensive too - but that would be acceptable if a robot could do things humans do and didn't ask for breaks, sleep or a living wage. The main issue was that of capability. The humanoid robots simply aren't smart enough to do the tasks that would justify their existence.

Only recently did we get the tech to start emulating the more complex behaviors - and things like self-driving cars or humanoid robots that are actually useful start to look like they might be within reach.

Without political will, it's hard to implement solutions. Without the right technologies, you wouldn't have any reasonable solutions at all.

Hell, if a technology is good enough, it doesn't even require any political will to find its implementation. LED lights spread like wildfire because they are more power efficient and more economical both.

On the other hand, V2's guidance was dogshit - but that's just tech levels for you. Modern electronics make it easier to implement guidance.