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I had the same feelings as you.

I feel like serious issues are being brought up but there is also a bit too much righteousness attached to it rather than just pragmatic concerns. Maybe it's just the news reporter adding it though. News always want to add drama and specialty even to mundane events that might be solved easily. Sometimes throwing the discordia apple onto the dinner table.

In this case it seems it was just a mistake recognizing human made objects as asteroids. They mentioned it happened with Tesla Roster and also the Rosetta spacecraft. So yeah, it's pretty boring and the solution is very obvious. Have/improve a shared database of outer space objects.

Now I don't know if the journalist or some astronomer or someone else added the part with *A ’deplorable’ problem*

The definition of deplorable: "deserving strong condemnation; completely unacceptable" "children living in deplorable conditions"

Is this really a 'deplorable' problem? I really don't think there is any need to use such shaming and guilty oriented words for such a small matter. The amount of righteousness is just too much. It will cause people that would on the same side as you with just slightly different jobs/opinions to feel attacked and diminished. In my opinion this is what caused all big tech to flip from democrats to republicans. People over critized tech companies, painted them as villains. Everyone is just trying to do the best they can. It's better to be constructive, offer help, empathy, ask questions, dial back the righteousness. This way people don't feel attacked and punished but rather inspired to do better together.



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