What the actual fuck.

[ondrejzizka@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets IMHO it's another dumb way of Elon Musk to hype his techno bullshit. Orbital datacenter is a stupid idea on so many levels. Nobody will pit actual money into it. (Maybe the current US government, but nobody sane.)

[tadbithuman@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets scientists need to build lasers to zap them out of earth. Put them into a trajectory to leave the earth.

[underflo@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

“What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”

[realgene@hachyderm.io]

@sundogplanets
This is Elon Musk stroking his dick in public, daring anyone to say something.

[agowa338@chaos.social]

@sundogplanets

Tbh, it is time to find a way to remove junk like SpaceX satellites from orbit without blowing them up with a ballistic missile. Aka. we need a way to free up the sky again or we'll just be stranded down here and not even be able to see the stars anymore...

[realgene@hachyderm.io]

@PalmAndNeedle @deborahh @sundogplanets
A two-volume bilogy, but his publisher said "nah, squeeze it into one, who cares if you rush the ending."

[neia@zoner.work]

@Merovius@chaos.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social @robpike@hachyderm.io I like the idea of a datacenter where the heat budget is impossibly strict, nobody can replace failing hardware, the geolocation changes radically every minute, and there's a good chance it collides with a loose screw going at 2km/s.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@sundogplanets not to mention that they can’t cool serious datacenters in space… so what are they really?

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@irina @sundogplanets Hmmm. So, thinking selfishly it could theoretically happen within my lifetime.

In the back of my mind is this kind of thing, as drawn to my attention some time ago by the esteemed professor themselves:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_gun

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@sundogplanets Surely someone has done the math here: roughly 10^1.5 satellites per launch. Roughly 10^2 launches per year. Average satellite lifetime of (optimistically) 10^1 years… Is 10^6 satellites even possible? (never mind orbital intersections, etc.)

[tartley@fosstodon.org]

@Kierkegaanks @sundogplanets it's whatever is so ambitious that no investor can figure out it's unrealistic until it has successfully propped up the share price until the next one

[pamela1960@kolektiva.social]

@sundogplanets Countries need to start banning satellites above their near space, and either jamming them or destroying them if not moved.

[edelruth@mastodon.online]

@sundogplanets

🎶🎵 It's raining not-men-but-satellites 🎵🎶

[crystal_fish_caves@mstdn.party]

@sundogplanets rogue asteroids no longer need to fear being detected and intercepted, or have Bruce Willis land and destroy them. We will never see them coming through the cloud of billionaire supported space junk in the way.

Time travel must not be possible or someone would have come back to us 100 years ago and thwarted the system that lets some have BILLIONS while others live on the street.

[alphapuggle@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets I swear if we lose our night sky for *AI* I'm going to lose it

[alisonw@fedimon.uk]

@sundogplanets
You can't have effective data centres in space though!
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

[alisonw@hachyderm.io]

@irina @the_wub @sundogplanets
But we already know - what goes up *will* come down (and in an unknown and uncontrolled manner too).

[zl2tod@mastodon.online]

@sundogplanets

Where does the FCC get off in thinking it can make decisions that affect the entire planet and all humankind?

There's a tui in the tree outside loudly proclaiming "Ripe Plums".

@adambecker.bsky.social

[ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us]

@kwayk42 @dougwade @sundogplanets
Giant silly putty katamaris ... in space!

[c_dan4th@mstdn.social]

@sundogplanets Just doing this math says there’s a maximum of 30,000 operational Starlinks at any given time unless they’re ramping up to way more launches/year, more satellites/launch, or less shitty satellites. None of these seems super likely.