What the actual fuck.

[merovius@chaos.social]

@sundogplanets @robpike lol data centers in space what a publicity stunt. Makes absolutely zero material sense.

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus@cyberplace.social]

@sundogplanets Isn't it obvious that speedrunning Kessler syndrome to no obvious benefit is how you become a multiplanetary species?

It's just science or something.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Is there enough rocket fuel on earth for a million rocket launches?

What about the logistics?

Say you manage to find 100 suitable rocket launch sites and have a successful launch a week from each site.

Assuming a 100% successful launch rate and that all of the satellites end up in the right orbit first time that's still 10,000 weeks before all of the satellites are in place.

So 192 years?

Are my calculations correct?

[chancerubbage@mastodon.social]

@SecondUniverse @sundogplanets @Barbramon1

Of course there is. I did math on the existing numbers months back (there are so many I expected them to be smaller) to determine ideally how much land area each existing then could cover for internet signal.

It’s stupefying even if any one trusted Musk as a carrier. I certainly don’t.

[tock@corteximplant.com]

@sundogplanets The only relevant sci-fi: "we don't know who struck first, but we know it was us who darkened the sky."

[wikitect@mas.to]

@sundogplanets this is like the archetypal gold rush land grab. No thought or card for the consequences on others eg astronomy, debris impact etc. Just selfish short term monetary gain. The polluter should pay!

[maikek@fedifreu.de]

@christianschwaegerl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Don't ask me what this will do to our planet 😞. @sundogplanets

[edelruth@mastodon.online]

@sundogplanets

So, this has all the hallmarks of a 'Musk's name just came up in an Epstein email, begging for a wild party invite to the island’ distractor vibe to it.

You can make 1 million chocolate bars, just like that. I'm pretty sure that the sourcing for parts for satellites is less do-able.

Still. Eyes on.

[retech@defcon.social]

@sundogplanets The US gov't, owned by the broligarchs, won't approve and even fund one of their Epstien friend's projects? Seriously, that's a foolish question. Of Course they'll approve it, give him tax money for it, tell the world to fuck off, and continue with impunity.

[l_yah@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets I am so disappointed, man. When I was in highschool, I thought Elon Musk was so cool. The "real life Iron Man." Now, what the fuck.

[irina@critter.cafe]

@the_wub @sundogplanets spacex already deploys 20-60 satellites per launch - and this is the same delusional management who think they can turn around launches in a day or less, so the bottleneck would (in their eyes) be building the satellites themselves

[rvlara23@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

This is why he was so invested in Trump winning.

Can't be having all that regulation, now can we?

[ondrejzizka@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets IMHO it's another dumb way of Elon Musk to hype his techno bullshit. Orbital datacenter is a stupid idea on so many levels. Nobody will pit actual money into it. (Maybe the current US government, but nobody sane.)

[tadbithuman@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets scientists need to build lasers to zap them out of earth. Put them into a trajectory to leave the earth.

[underflo@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

“What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”

[realgene@hachyderm.io]

@sundogplanets
This is Elon Musk stroking his dick in public, daring anyone to say something.

[agowa338@chaos.social]

@sundogplanets

Tbh, it is time to find a way to remove junk like SpaceX satellites from orbit without blowing them up with a ballistic missile. Aka. we need a way to free up the sky again or we'll just be stranded down here and not even be able to see the stars anymore...

[realgene@hachyderm.io]

@PalmAndNeedle @deborahh @sundogplanets
A two-volume bilogy, but his publisher said "nah, squeeze it into one, who cares if you rush the ending."

[neia@zoner.work]

@Merovius@chaos.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social @robpike@hachyderm.io I like the idea of a datacenter where the heat budget is impossibly strict, nobody can replace failing hardware, the geolocation changes radically every minute, and there's a good chance it collides with a loose screw going at 2km/s.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@sundogplanets not to mention that they can’t cool serious datacenters in space… so what are they really?