The current crop of über wealth are supporters of the Democratic party. Radical environmentalists are probably the most anti modern people out there at the moment. I wouldn’t bring “keeping blacks down” into this considering the track record of Democrat policies and their impact on the black community.
How anyone in this day can still support such blatantly despotic nations is a mystery to me. Even if you believe capitalist nations are equally authoritarian, which they clearly aren’t, then you’d still have to admit that they at least have the decency to conceal it by not having concentration camps, political and religious persecution, dictators for life or just straight up starving their populace.
I think the implication is a bit more literal. When you conspire with someone you communicate secretly with them in order to plot and coordinate your actions. You do this by being in very close proximity to them and whispering, so close that you are sharing breath i.e. breathing together.
The argument for is based on being able to receive 144% of the maximum insolation 99% of the time vs ground based which has <100% for 40% of the time and 0% for the rest. Clever engineering could potentially balance those numbers.
I did a back of the napkin calculation a while ago regarding how many car lengths you’d need to put in LEO to have an unbroken traffic jam in orbit and the result was surprisingly comparable to the number of cars we’re currently producing. If you were “simply” launching wire instead I’m sure you could get enough material up there in much fewer launches. I’m curious as to how you would construct such a loop since you’d need to station keep it somehow while it’s inoperable.
That may be true for the feeling of nausea but smart phones almost certainly give rise to all kinds of maladaptive behaviours and subtle mental illnesses.