What the actual fuck.

[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.

[too_little_caffeine@dotnet.social]

@sundogplanets You gotta build Skynet somehow

[frantasaur@mastodon.ie]

@sundogplanets Ugh! Musk and the other tech bros are the next “great filter” we need to survive as a species.

[utf_7@mastodon.social]

@ppulfer @troed @sundogplanets do I talk to an AI?!

[ppulfer@mastodon.ie]

@utf_7 @troed @sundogplanets, not yet but soon I guess 🤣

[chancerubbage@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets @Barbramon1

Typical SpaceX Starlink communications satellites are roughly the size of a table or small car, weighing between 570 lbs (260 kg) for earlier models and up to 1,630+ lbs (740+ kg) for newer "V2 Mini" versions. They measure approximately 2.8 to 3.2 meters long, 1.4 to 1.6 meters wide, and are thin, designed for flat-packing in Falcon 9 rockets.

[faithinbones@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets this will be a catastrophic disaster

[cogean3125@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets
Takeaways: "Orbital data centers" for "accelerating demand for AI" (snicker). "This filing seems quite rushed"..."the details were left vague"

Bottom line: it's an investor scam. The people who wasted billions on AI R&D are looking for the "greater fool" to unload the investments onto, and need a fantasy project to convince people they can still get in on the ground floor of something. Once the IPO is through collecting gullible people's cash, their mission is accomplished.

[troed@swecyb.com]

@ppulfer

The point is that it's _really difficult_ to remove heat in space. Those datacenters will need to run at _much_ slower speeds than datacenters on Earth.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1o1d0xd/why_cant_we_put_data_centers_in_orbit_where_they/

@utf_7 @sundogplanets