What the actual fuck.

[utf_7@mastodon.social]

@troed @sundogplanets damn, should be relpied to @ppulfer

>why is this a problem? Datacenters in space would eliminate a lot of problems like access to free solar energy, cooling, etc.

[kingtor@frontrange.co]

@sundogplanets why wouldn't the FCC robber-stamp it? Isn't their job to rubber-stamp shortsighted companies' plans?

[estelle@mstdn.social]

@sundogplanets ....uhhhhh.

okay, plan b, china builds as many nuclear reactors as it takes to laser broom earth orbit clean, and then we have about 40 years to figure out how to stop the aluminum oxides from destroying the ozone layer,

[ppulfer@mastodon.ie]

@utf_7 @troed @sundogplanets, no worries. :) Indeed, a much harder challenge but image the outcome if we would normalize this?

Tbf, I think we're not there yet and the announcement is more like a distraction but I'd welcome the actual technological outcome.

[tfiebig@wybt.net]

@sundogplanets For my own sanity i haven't read the news yet, so no clue what you are making fun of here... Did Elon typo Kessler Syndrome again. 😂😅

[utf_7@mastodon.social]

@ppulfer @troed @sundogplanets tbh, i cannot imagine a useful outcome. mind to share your thoughts on the benefits?

[ppulfer@mastodon.ie]

@utf_7 @troed @sundogplanets, my thoughts are on the biggest resource consumption of a datacenter: Cooling and Energy, which is very taxing right now on our existing capabilities.

We'd shift from constant CO2 emitting energy consumption on earth to solar in space and move away from using fresh water for cooling, which is becoming more and more scarce.

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@sundogplanets of course they will allow.

They want this to be free of ALL privacy law, as Space is not regulated.

[debe@mastodon.nz]

@PalmAndNeedle And I can't say I'm looking forward to the future damage to our ozone layer ... Again. @sundogplanets @ehproque

[glitzersachen@hachyderm.io]

@sundogplanets

Haha. Perhaps they mixed up Kardashev and Kessler...

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@sundogplanets I suggest we all become amateur radio astronomers but instead of receiving we transmit. We agree on a satellite to fry every day until starlink costs too much to keep running.

Obviously we can't do this. Not everyone can afford a radio transmission setup & a satellite antenna, & the FCC in the USA & the equivalents in other countries would be very mad, but I wish we could do this.

[syntaxxor@sk.girlthi.ng]

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social And for data centers, no less. These aren't providing some useful service, they're just running out of room to put their stupid AI data centers so they're trying to put them in orbit. What a fucking joke

How will they even cool them??? Cooling tech in space is notoriously difficult as the only way to remove heat from a body in space is to radiate it off. And that's extremely slow. Aren't they already having enough trouble cooling their data centers inside an atmosphere?

I'm just honestly stunned at the continuing level of destructive stupidity these people show. Can't wait for a million space-borne data centers to blot out the stars in order to provide... checks notes technology that still won't be able to provide correct information.

[glitzersachen@hachyderm.io]

@nev @sundogplanets

There is such a thing as not thinking enough.

And good SF doesn't hand-waves "technology" out of thin air either.

[jasperb@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets this is the peak of irresponsibility you might think, until you wake up next morning.

[utf_7@mastodon.social]

@ppulfer @troed @sundogplanets use solar on earth and don't use fresh water but a liquid cooling circuit and on the roof top a liquid/air heat exchanger?

[dan131riley@federate.social]

@Pepijn @sundogplanets Curiously enough, a million orbital data centers would in fact get us to approximately Kardashev level 1.00000000000001.

[thestrangelet@beige.party]

@sundogplanets JFC, everyday its news of yet another billionaire's hard-on to destroy the only inhabitable planet we know of.

[ppulfer@mastodon.ie]

@utf_7 @troed @sundogplanets, I agree, that would be a great option as well and is supposedly our current policy. Reality is different though: Datacenters and municipals are signing NDA's, so that the public never really know what the impact on current population. At least in space they would have no other option.

[tallsimon@mstdn.ca]

@sundogplanets Perhaps it's time to put that information into the CRASH clock. Consider sending the FCC a summary.

If the critical delay for orbital corrections drops enough, perhaps even below even that associated with standard operations, then there's a really good argument to deny the application.

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

So, when they all collide and fuck up all access to earth orbit for decades, where on the Kardashev scale will we be?

Asking for a planet.