Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

[badastro@mastodon.social]

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-growth-of-satellite-mega-constellations-could-ruin-the-night-sky/

[chasteen@hachyderm.io]

@badastro hey, Phil! Nice to see you on here.

[avacadoavenger@mastodon.social]

@badastro I love my starlink and its a badly needed technology but there needs to be some limitations on constellation sizes and orbital paths.

[snaefell@mastodon.social]

@badastro Kessler syndrome incoming.

[christo_459@mastodon.me.uk]

@badastro
He will destroy the ozone layer and make the study of space impossible.

[heartofcoyote@neuromatch.social]

@badastro COLOSSAL waste of resources.

[catdad@ohai.social]

@badastro STUPID. FUCKING. PLAN. ELON.

If anyone knows how to etch or tattoo these words directly onto his eyeballs, could you make it happen, please?

[juandesant@mathstodon.xyz]

@AvacadoAvenger @badastro it’s not a badly needed technology. What it is insane is that as a society we’ve made it cheaper to launch satellites to provide coverage rather than build 5G cellular capacity and/or fiber broadband…

[aphrodite@chaos.social]

@badastro

How realistic is his bluster?

A million satellites would require how many launches? How much material? How much precision hardware?

This, imho, is just another time the biggest bullshitter in the corporate space is bullshitting to drive hype and get access journos to mindlessly repeat what he makes come out of his mouth hole.

[avacadoavenger@mastodon.social]

@juandesant @badastro I'm going to argue with you that we need the ability to communicate on this planet. I live in a vast nation that has huge gaps in coverage that only a satellite constellation can address. We made nothing cheaper. Elon Musk did.

[alandvalonline@mastodon.social]

@badastro Can we just send HIM into space? Maybe sit him in his space tesla...

[saddestrobots@jorts.horse]

@Aphrodite @badastro
even as bullshit and bluster, it's a way to plow under regulation and just claim the whole space (which, in this case, *is* space) for arbitrary exploitation

[susannelilith@rheinneckar.social]

@badastro Könnte auch eine Plan vom Rest der Galaxis sein, uns hier festzuhalten. Wir kommen dann einfach nicht mehr raus, weil keine Lücke mehr da.

[brouhaha@mastodon.social]

@badastro
There goes the neighborhood.

[julescelt01@universeodon.com]

@AvacadoAvenger @juandesant @badastro I live in Colorado and in the mountains it is difficult to get coverage. Except there is satellite coverage in nearly 100% of those areas. Those satellites already exist.

In the 1990s I was using GPS to map vegetation in my job, rarely did I not get at least one satellite.

Coverage is dependent on orbital routes of the satellites, not the number of them.

[minnamoira@mementomori.social]

@badastro I frown to the idea that one man is going to do so much damage to our environment. Well, for sure these million satellites disappear to space ... but even if you can do it, it doesnt mean you should. We are ruining Earth as we speak so now he wants to shit all over cosmos as well.

[minnamoira@mementomori.social]

@alandvalonline @badastro I can chip in to this idea.

[gokayburuc@mastodon.social]

@badastro So what will happen to those satellites after their service life expires?Will space debris form around the Earth?

[hollowone@mas.erb.pw]

@badastro that’s ok, as long as somebody else had a tech to shut them down at scale. i think to some forces that’s natural ambition to consider. Otherwise it will be fun night time sky to observe them all coliding one day

[mattmoose@mastodon.world]

@badastro
Will someone disempower this motherfucking bastard please