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  • We could, but it’s way more expensive. There was a ~10m dish added to space VLBI, but the ground stations are several times larger, up to a few 100m. And you need dish size for sensitivity: in interferometry the largest distance between two telescopes gives the size of the synthetic instrument, but the size of the individual dishes fills up the detector.

    Also, if something breaks it’s almost impossible to fix in space.






  • In short:

    • In the beginning he won an election with supermajority, since than they changed election rules so it’s harder to get them removed (rules favor the single strongest party, so they can be beaten in 1v1 only, but the opposition has several parties)
    • Many young people who had enough left the country, but it got harder to vote if you emigrated
    • They introduced a public work program that local mayors use to threat people to vote for them
    • Orbán realized that leaders in the EU stopped believing him, so he made new friends with Russia, Kazakhstan, etc
    • He uses the only power he has - he can pose as the leader of an EU county legitimizing these autocracies, and
    • vetoing EU decisions un favor of his New friends
    • EU was created with a good faith, a county cannot be kicked out
    • So the only lever they have is closing the money tap that would dry up his guild of thieves - that is happening right now