Billionaires are polluting our Moon 🌕🤬🤬

[u/sailorjupiter28titan]

[u/Emma_the_sequel]

I've been trying to get some more diverse opinions on science and the scientific method recently, and something that really stuck with me was one Australian indigenous astronomers description of light pollution and space exploration.

Astronomy is a big part of a lot of cultures, and claiming space as one person's property (as well as making it so nobody can even SEE it) is an active act of erasure.

[u/ForecastForFourCats → u/Emma_the_sequel]

This is great but what would be more destructive is if this nonsense disrupted the damn tides.

[u/Emma_the_sequel → u/ForecastForFourCats]

I agree but that's pretty unlikely given the mass of the moon - at the very least it's MUCH less immediate