Post #2885394

2026-04-01 02:40 UTC

I still, to this day, have a lot of very romantic ideas about space, and how humans across the world (can) collaborate on it. How the ISS is, despite problems, largely a really good example of how people from very opposing countries politically can work together on something bigger than them. I hope that we can achieve that going into the future. I'm choosing to hold onto that hope... even as it seems less likely day by day. #space #hope

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@heartkey@tech.lgbt 2026-04-01 02:49

I remember as a kid in the 90s being fascinated with the idea of high-speed internet coming from satellites, available globally for people for free or at least cheap enough for most people to have. And although the tech is very different in some ways from how the books in the 90s thought it might look, we now largely have that! And as far as I can tell, the actual people (the vast majority of the workers) in both Starlink and SpaceX seem like decent people with hope and determination to simply do a good job! And yet, the person/people at the very top of SpaceX and Starlink does and says things day by day which just squashes my ability to retain that childlike joy at what this tech is and can be. There's not much to this post. Just a bit of a rant to get my thoughts written down somewhere. Wrangling with trying to keep joyful and optimistic feelings in a world which, currently at least, is doing all it can so people don't feel that way. #space #joy #starlink #tryingmybest #retainingwonder

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