Alistair K on Nostr: and, importantly, who presumes to authorise on everyone else's behalf? Space programs ...

and, importantly, who presumes to authorise on everyone else's behalf? Space programs are a disaster on this front. My sky is not the business of any other country's government, and barely even my own countries' governments. This practice reeks of the same foul scent as when the petro lobbyists robbed us of customary rights that we'd held, as pedestrians, since prehistory.