NO!  It is not a mote,  but a fleet of flying things.  When other countries really get into it,  I’ll be history long before 2050, and maybe you will be, too.  Here is just a taste of the [mentally] suffocating interlopers, all by way of Google:

COLOCATED – Two or more satellites occupying roughly the same geostationary orbital position when viewed from the ground. The satellites are several kilometers apart to avoid collisions, and both use different frequency bands.  [I’m all for avoiding collisions]

BUSINESS SATELLITE INTERNET – When landlines are compromised, satellite-based business continuity services ensure your systems stay online, keeping your company up and running.

(It may have been copying that one that brought me “Are you sure you want to [bring back] all your recycle bin?” with a list of some things I don’t believe I sent to recycle.  You see what feeds my paranoia.

All right, I won’t mess with this anymore….Of course! We knew it was a money-making thing. Why am I surprised?  When I returned to my computer this morning I found the above question.

Looking further, I found, unconnected, MOTE:  “mot (karphos): A minute piece of anything dry or light, as straw, chaff, a splinter of wood, that might enter the eye. Used by Jesus in Matthew 7:3; Luke 6:41 f in contrast with “beam,” to rebuke officiousness in correcting small faults of others, while cherishing greater ones of our own.  Ouch!  Maybe I should change subjects…

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QUESTION FOR THE DAY:

• How close is the James Webb Space Tele­scope to find­ing life?
  What a year of NASA’s James Webb Tele­scope tells us about the search for ex­trater­res­tri­al life.
  Published On 2 Jan 20232 Jan 2023

And when we find it, what are we almost surely to do?  (Old habits are hard to lose).