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

[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

[nuwagaba2@mastodon.social]

@badastro
If the voice is heard, will it change anything?

[alextecplayz@techhub.social]

@hollowone @badastro ...until those collisions cause hundreds of thousands, to millions of untrackable little objects and debris that puts every other satellite and space station at risk.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@badastro has he actually spent money or resources on it or is it his usual investor fraud in time for the space x ipo?

[hollowone@mas.erb.pw]

@alextecplayz @badastro well, we’re doomed to die on this planet anyway…

[rafaelguerra@social.vivaldi.net]

@badastro , wow elon is a melon, a melon dusk.

[tinamariausa@mastodon.social]

@badastro

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@badastro But AGI will fix it, and there will be abundance, and those future people not yet born will be mad at you for stopping him!!

… or some other bullshit reason like that

[agt@mastodon.scot]

@badastro Surely this photo’s wrong? I assume all his satellites would be on the far-right?

[pinkpolonium@indieweb.social]

@badastro I’m so tired of making fun of the nonexistent brilliance Elon has built his whole personal brand around, so i’ll skip to the ask (for 🇺🇸️ans):

👉️ TODAY is the last day ‼️ to submit a public comment to the #FCC about spacex’s megaconstellation.

👉️ MONDAY is the last day to comment on the #ReflectOrbital filing.

The SciAm article has links and instructions. The more of us who speak up, the harder it is to ignore.