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Cosmic Queries – Discovering Exoplanets with Gáspár Bakos

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The Negative Effects of Lighting Up the Sky

We're wasting like three billion dollars a year on lighting up the sky which is very harmful for us. The sun reflects back from these satellites and they are sort of useful in broadcasting internet. Almost everyone in the US has relatively broadband internet if you think like there are 10 million people in New York no one complains about having no internet so providing them with another internet is not about saving the world.

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