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> from as little as 99 USD a month
> 550 telescopes
So about ~55 to 60k USD a month to just have some telescopes on your land? Nice little earner.
Far from unique! There were and are telescope hosters in the Atacama Desert, which is as good as it can possibly be for the amateurs.
What do people do with this astronomical data?
Why do they pay for this?
Colter Mccorkindale’s comment is the best part.
“Sooo....the stars at night really are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas?”
I would never have thought of this, but it is really cool. Living in the city with light pollution, we can see a dozen or so on the best nights.
What an ingenious business idea.
We need more of this. Thanks for making the world more awesome!
Not, in fact, optical interferometry :(
sadly won't be possible for anything serious next decade as each space trillionaire and country launches their own 10,000+ constellations
sky will be constantly twinkling, will be weird
we'll have to switch to space telescopes above LEO
Really great idea! But one still has to buy a telescope and send it to this guy, I think it would be cool if one could just rent everything at once. For non-serious people that have a lot of money that they would like to put to use looking at the stars. Or maybe a time-share like concept.