Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service".

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

@river yes, share far and wide

[legocas@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets this is quite outrageous. How is it possible that everything in there public domain / commons seems to be up for grabs instead being protected for its cultural and natural value. Can’t believe this stuff.

[markmetz@sfba.social]

@sundogplanets @river
Happy to share this, do you have any more info about the reflect plan? This sounds as bad as the Russian company that’s planning on running advertisements in space.

[tony_meredith@mastodon.me.uk]

@sundogplanets Plus. It's open for comments worldwide. Right?

[olson@sfba.social]

@markmetz @sundogplanets @river

What?!? Who is gonna see them?

I’m glad I’m old.

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Aside from the whole night sky thing, there are going to be ecological damage done by this. Lots of flora and fauna need dark and light cycles. :(

[mimiwhiskers@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets It makes zero sense to launch datacenters in space. I ain't gonna go through the technical reasons why, but you can read here where someone that actually worked at NASA and google explaining why its a bad idea... https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

But if I could take a moment to poke my conspiracy brain, I think this is more for building an advanced surveillance network against the whole world. You can possibly monitor almost everything on Earth with a network like that.

[keab42@kind.social]

@sundogplanets Are they really Mr Burns-ing it?

[tillymoose@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets
AMEN AMEN AMEN
ACT UP
May be considered as #ecocide, I wonder
Stop the bastards messing with the natural order

[nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets How is it that U.S. companies get to destroy space for the entire Earth?

[enby_of_the_apocalypse@social.treehouse.systems]

@sundogplanets that sounds like something that would’ve sounded so far-fetched it’s cartoonish if it was a thing in a scifi story a few years ago. It sounds like something that would still be if it appeared in a scifi story today. I hate this timeline. Dystopian media should not be an instruction manual.

[markmetz@sfba.social]

@Olson @sundogplanets @river
The idea is that we all will, and we won’t have a choice.

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
LEO "datacenters" make zero sense, even less sense than persistent orbit space-based datacenters would.

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@sundogplanets

Sunlight as a Service from space, aka death ray upon demand. Vaporize entire neighborhoods with a small political donation.

[rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social]

@sundogplanets on it!

[epic_null@infosec.exchange]

@Nonya_Bidniss @sundogplanets No one is stopping us. (please change that)

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@sundogplanets @mayintoronto how does the US government get to make this call, for globe-encircling tech?

[christo_459@mastodon.me.uk]

@sundogplanets
I wish we could just throw the people pushing these things , in jail

[brianjohnson@universeodon.com]

@sundogplanets Ok, so launching one satellite every 10 minutes nonstop would take almost 20 years to launch a million satellites, and that is assuming that someone can build them and deliver them to launch pads at that rate.

Completely unrealistic. Is this really about launching that much or is it about generating hype before trying to sell something or raise money?

[angelascholder@mastodon.energy]

@sundogplanets Nice! "Incompatible browser extensions or Network configuration".