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No. I love space science, but knowing the origin of the universe will not bring us indoor lighting, refrigeration, clean energy, or anything like that. It is valuable in so far as it's worth some investment, but not so much it prevents us from providing global Internet.


Starlink is not going to solve last mile access problems except for a small number of people. Even rural areas have towns, and it's a matter of spending the money to bring Internet to them the way we did electricity.


You have no idea of what basic physics could learn from cosmology a priori, and neither do I.




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