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

[radio_alelopatia@kolektiva.social]

@sundogplanets I would say, probably nothing we write is going to matter. Both these companies know who to send kick backs to in order to ensure that this will happen... The main thing we have on our side is that if they put 1 million data centers in low earth orbit, it is going to make it impossible to launch anything into space without collisions becoming extremely frequent. Everything Elon does is riddled with bugs, because he is just sloppy and hires sloppy and shitty engineers that are like him, mostly because he is a narcissist, but I digress... These things will break and crash into each other and come crashing down on people's homes and if we are lucky they will land directly on Elon's head. Since once they are in free fall it's basically anybody's guess where they might end up landing. The things these idiots do have consequences... Mostly for other people because that's how statistics works, but if they do enough dumb shit, eventually it becomes much more likely to effect themselves.

[sophie@hub.somaton.com]

@Prof. Sam Lawler comments for US citizens only or worldwide?

[angryant@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@BrianJohnson @sundogplanets Odds definitely say that a million AI datacenters in orbit is just more fragile ego twitter trolling for shareholders.

However playing with the numbers conservatively, using the 2025 SpaceX launch numbers (down from initial targets) and assuming starlink sattellites get retooled (or just rebranded) as "AI datacenters" for twitter/shareholder creds, SpaceX would need 125 years to launch 1mill units. 62.5 years if using Starship.

Plenty damage early on "for the lols"

[pelha@mstdn.social]

@Olson @markmetz @sundogplanets @river this is all making reincarnation look like a bad idea 😣

[s0@cathode.church]

@sundogplanets telling my 1920s time travel companion that in 2026 the capitalists aren’t trying to privatise the night sky — they’re trying to destroy it, for imaginary gains to their bad mechanical Turk.

[benneth9@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Hello 👋, Nice meeting you all Am New Here

[lunaphied@provably.online]

@sundogplanets the fact that any country is just allowed to do this is so fucked

[fraggle@social.coop]

@MimiWhiskers @sundogplanets thank you, glad to see that someone who's an expert has written a thorough debunk. It was obvious to me that it was a terrible idea just because of the cooling but it's great to see all the other reasons laid out clearly too

[cynthiarose@sfba.social]

@sundogplanets
When burning ants alive with a magnifying glass makes you wish you could hear the screams….. cartoonish supervillainy shit right here, jfc

[persistentdreamer@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@sundogplanets I can't believe this is actually fucking real.

[taniacreates@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets can we use a template or create an online petition to bring awareness to this?

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

@sophie worldwide

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

@taniacreates DarkSky is working on a template, I'll share their instructions once it's up

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

@PersistentDreamer I know 😭

[ruhrnalist@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets is it open to foreigners? I don't see that they are asking for an address?

[tseitr@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Nonya_Bidniss @sundogplanets I think I posted something before with china shooting these things down and people cheering, like an american movie, but china is the one that save the day.

[imprinted@mastodon.uno]

@sundogplanets
Building a giant slingshot do you think can work?

[grumble209@kolektiva.social]

@Epic_Null @Nonya_Bidniss @sundogplanets Exactly this.

Epstein kiddie-fuckers get away with it because no one stops them.

Space-destroying tech-bros get away with it because no one stops them.

Why is that?

[johnlogic@sfba.social]

@sundogplanets

At first I had read the company's name as Rectal Orbit.

[fayedrake@furry.engineer]

@enby_of_the_apocalypse @sundogplanets yeah

A giant mirror for “sunlight as a service” is one of those things that sounds great if you’re an executive who likes science fiction and has been hot boxing Silicon Valley narratives for the last twenty years.

But to anyone who reads science fiction and actually gets the underlying themes rather than just “cool tech bro”, the only way I can describe this is a horrifying plan straight out of an Austin Powers movie.