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Deep space experts prove Elon Musk's Starlink is interfering in scientific work (www.abc.net.au)
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Scientists, looking deep into space, have long voiced their concerns that satellites are encroaching on their ability to study the cosmos.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

which would allow poor remote communities in South America, Africa, and Asia access to the internet, which is practically impossible through any other means.

"Practically impossible" is a horrible way to describe it. It's not practically impossible; the solution and methods are eminently doable, they just aren't done (yet) because of cost in poor areas with relatively weak governments. Most of those areas will get reliable non-satellite internet in the years to come.

We can talk up the good of systems like Starlink without hyping it up as delivering something that is otherwise impossible.