What the actual fuck.

[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?

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@irina @sundogplanets Hmmm. So, thinking selfishly it could theoretically happen within my lifetime.

In the back of my mind is this kind of thing, as drawn to my attention some time ago by the esteemed professor themselves:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_gun

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@sundogplanets Surely someone has done the math here: roughly 10^1.5 satellites per launch. Roughly 10^2 launches per year. Average satellite lifetime of (optimistically) 10^1 years… Is 10^6 satellites even possible? (never mind orbital intersections, etc.)

[tartley@fosstodon.org]

@Kierkegaanks @sundogplanets it's whatever is so ambitious that no investor can figure out it's unrealistic until it has successfully propped up the share price until the next one

[pamela1960@kolektiva.social]

@sundogplanets Countries need to start banning satellites above their near space, and either jamming them or destroying them if not moved.

[crystal_fish_caves@mstdn.party]

@sundogplanets rogue asteroids no longer need to fear being detected and intercepted, or have Bruce Willis land and destroy them. We will never see them coming through the cloud of billionaire supported space junk in the way.

Time travel must not be possible or someone would have come back to us 100 years ago and thwarted the system that lets some have BILLIONS while others live on the street.