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Then just look at Elon Musk's and Bill Gates' projects. One is weaning us off hydrocarbons, the other is curing disease.


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> Gates is buying up all the arable farmland, and taking advantage of poor African countries.

Can you expand on that? I'm sure there are easier ways for him to make money if that's what the purpose is.


https://www.vox.com/recode/22528659/bill-gates-largest-farml...

(to be fair, 'all of the farmland' is not really appropriate: 300,000 acres out of 900 million. He's still the biggest single owner though).

And, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43817537, for one perspective on his Africa ventures.


If you're referring to the Starlink satellite constellation, Kessler syndrome isn't a real concern. Those satellites are in low orbits.


NASA and MIT beg to differ.

And the light pollution on its own is a concern - why the everloving fuck should Musk of all people get to block humanity's starlight for his own private profit.




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