A huge synthetic telescope in orbit with an aperture the size of the planet?

How many private earth observation satellites?

The market is huge when weight constraints largely go away and $/kg drops so hard.

Reusing Apollo-style stack, reusing Shuttle engines, reusing Shuttle-style SRBs. Novel?

> equals the value of what they give to the tax payers in return

This seems incredibly shortsighted.

Anywhere on earth is better than space for this application.

Don't be so sure.

Ref: https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

Dogs are the best.

This is so naive.

People do not ask corporations to be evil and they certainly don't demand it. People ask for good value and convenience and corporations respond by doing by amorally pursuing that.

However, when you ask consumers if they want value and convenience at the cost of *evil*, they almost always say no.

Corporations have a demonstrated and well-documented history of actively hiding their evil actions because they know consumers are not aligned with them at all.

If consumers "demand" evil, as you say, then corporations wouldn't try to hide it.

Comparing modern algorithmic/addictive social media to print articles with cliffhangers isn't a serious argument.

No one outside of someone trying to be obtuse would put HN and Tiktok in the same category.

It could be banned with nothing of value lost.

It's well known that foreign actors are all over social and that the west's foreign policy is (rightly so!) hostile to them.

Just like the tobacco companies, social media companies have known about the ills of their platforms for a long time and actively hidden it and/or publicly downplayed it.

We will come to see social media in its current form the same way we view smoking.

It's an illusion that's good enough that our brains accept it and it's a useful tool.

TBH, GCP is very good! More people should use it.