Microblog Memes

Down em all then. We need a satellite with lasers to take out other satellites: whether it's Russia's, China's, or Elon's.

Don't worry, greed ensures that Kessler Syndrome will get them in the not too distant future. Sure hope you aren't reliant on GPS or other satellite services, but at least, for a shining moment, shareholders got some value. /s

Alien 1: "I don't get it, we've been trying to contact them for ages now. You don't think they sacrificed their chance to join the interstellar community in order to have better phone reception or something, did they?"

Alien 2: "Well maybe if you didn't keep sticking probes up their asses, they'd be more communicative!"

Honestly astronomy from earth is notoriously difficult, for various reasons.

• there's already a lot of light pollution, due to atmospheric light dispersion, so finding a good spot for telescopes is already difficult.
• there's the issue that images become blurred, again because atmosphere.
• We already have telescopes in space, why no re-use them with an additional camera?

Spaceflight is unstoppable at this point. I look at the colonization of Mars like a distillation process: we remove all of the restless assholes and billionaires from Earth, and they leave us and leave us the fuck alone. That's a good thing; We should support it.

What’s up with some meme communities and people not posting memes on them?

Is the majority of high detail astronomy done from earth or is it done with satellites? I'm struggling to understand the significance of this