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This seems so science-fictiony that most people won't take it seriously. That would be a bad mistake.
Not only are we messing up the planet, we're also inadvertently shutting our door to space. When we're shut in, we're probably shut in for ever.
And when I say "we" are shutting that door, I mean mainly Musk.
https://robertvanwey.substack.com/p/the-imminence-of-the-destruction
@gleick I'm not convinced shutting the door isn't a good thing. It completely cuts off both the TESCREAList narrative about "good of the future trillions of human minds across the galaxy at the expense of every real person here now except the billionaires" and the prospects of space capitalism. We don't need space; it's awesome to explore but not essential to survival or happiness.
CC: @aburka@hachyderm.io @gleick@mas.to
@khm @aburka @gleick You can do surveying & construction without GPS. Maybe minor cost increase but no harm/danger. You can do farming without GPS, but it breaks some of the current large-scale automation. It can be replaced with locally operated triangulation or legacy LORAN-like. I'm not qualified to speak on the air and sea traffic but making them more expensive sounds good for climate...
@khm @aburka @gleick Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of a Kessler Syndrome situation is that GPS would fail gradually via inability to replace, not suddenly. So my naive view is that we'd have time to deploy replacements that don't depend on access to space. Something GPS-like should be possible with constellations of "weather balloons" tracking their precise positions relative to earth optically.