Today I learned a new rebuttal to the constant response from tech bros to me complaining about satellite pollution: WeLL JuSt PuT ALL yOuR tEleScOpEs iNtO SpAcE!
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Today I learned a new rebuttal to the constant response from tech bros to me complaining about satellite pollution: WeLL JuSt PuT ALL yOuR tEleScOpEs iNtO SpAcE! While astronomers have way more ground-based research telescopes, greenhouse gas emissions from astronomy are dominated by the few space missions. I had no idea there was such a big discrepancy.
Thanks for the great/depressing/important paper @jknodlseder
Dr. Jürgen Knödlseder (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image I’m happy to announce that our paper “Scenarios of future annual carbon footprints of astronomical research infrastructures” was published today by @NatureAstronomy. In the paper we modelled the future evolution of the annual greenhouse gas emissions of astronomical facilities based on past trends for different scenarios. We demonstrated that without a #degrowth in the number of facilities astronomical research will not reach sustainability. 🧵 1/4 https://rdcu.be/dR0r8
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Perhaps we can dispel any remaining misconceptions that tech bros are smart.