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Astronomers just deleted an asteroid because it turned out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster
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He’s fucking things up in space, even.
his stupid fucking internet satellites make planning getting things into orbit real hard. also it's not even his tesla in space. he stole it from mark eberhart
And his 6,000+ starlink pieces of trash in orbit have made earth based telescopes worse. They get in the way of the shot, and the emissions are something like 10x worse than promised.
Him and that tetraethyl lead guy. Just absolute stains.
Edit: no its 32 times the noise. It's a known issue, and it's been happening since the beginning.
But muh rural internet is not as good as muh urban internet! So, forgiven!
How many times can a chunk of our tax dollars go toward paying private companies to not deliver rural broadband? Let's find out!
In many locations it's the difference between having Internet and not having it at all. The only issue with it is it being privately owned.