What the actual fuck.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@sundogplanets

What people should suggest is that Elon Musk personally move himself into space to oversee the development of his glorious satellite network.

By all means, we should hurry him to the asteroid belt personally so he can collect the raw materials and then fashion the satellites. Tell him it will cut launch cost costs.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@kwayk42 @dougwade @sundogplanets

A rail gun is completely unnecessary. As a scientist pointed out back in the good old Ronnie Reagan, Star Wars days. The way you defeat a network of satellites is to throw a bucket of sand into the right orbit.

[clintruin@mastodon.social]

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @W6KME @sundogplanets
Let's remember who we're talking about here...
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https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115989156933538439

[benjaminklein@mastodon.nu]

@sundogplanets @adambecker.bsky.social brilliant book and well worth the read. Every time I hear someone mentioning one of these tech bros being intelligent I want a copy to throw at their head. Maybe we need to start explaining to politicians that if LEO is a shooting gallery it means no more GPS, do they remember what it was like navigating the world with paper maps, because we are going back there.

[ukeleleeric@mstdn.social]

@teajaygrey @sundogplanets the cost of the fibre link is not mainly about the physical cable. The thing that takes time and money is getting permits for digging up roads, access through private fields, planning permission for connection points, and so on. And each new route of cable has to have this sorted from scratch, and some public authorities are slow, obstructive or just downright awkward.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@sundogplanets I’m (jokingly) pretty sure aliens are behind this stupidity. Why else would we be purposely stranding ourselves on this planet by filling up the sky with space junk?

Oh right, because we can…

Times like these I like to disassociate much more hilarious reasons than what reality actually offers, as to why things they way they are. Today it’s aliens, tomorrow? Tardigrades maybe.

[netraven@hear-me.social]

@sundogplanets god damn cardassians!!!!! /s

[m0khr@mastodon.radio]

@jakebrake @sundogplanets
Cool 'robots' that are just remote waldos...

[oliver_schafeld@mastodon.online]

Dieser neuerliche SpaceX/Musk-Blödsinn wird sachlich zerlegt in diesem Astro-Blog

https://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/blog/2026/01/27/musks-ki-rechenzentren-im-orbit/#more-18511

Liest sich nicht immer flüssig, wirkt aber sachlich fundiert.

[bashstkid@mastodon.online]

@Pepijn @sundogplanets Only if Step 2 involves a knife missiile.

[palmandneedle@norden.social]

@deborahh @sundogplanets long at times. And kinda weirdly chunked up. But enjoyable

[oneiros@ruhr.social]

@sundogplanets
All in sun synchronous orbit?

[shadsterling@mastodon.social]

@kwayk42 @spycrab @dougwade @sundogplanets for me, watching the fireballs as they burn up in reentry as the spacecraft that is the net fires its thrusters to take them down, would be more satisfying than smashing them to hazardous bits still in orbit.

(The pollution from the reentry isn’t great, but the smashed bits would reenter eventually anyway, so it’s the same pollution with different timing)

[galaxis@mastodon.infra.de]

@sundogplanets Preparing exciting stories to sell their IPO?

[algaeman@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Shortsighted? No, I think they've invested long-term in SpaceX stock.

[thegaffer@hobbitwhispers.social]

@sundogplanets Apropos of nothing, I recommend Becky Chambers’ SciFi book “The Galaxy, and the Ground Within”. A great read premised on the Kessler Effect.

#SciFi #Satellites #StarLink #Space

[troed@swecyb.com]

@sundogplanets I'd still like journalists to start asking questions when "data centers in space" come up. Questions like:

-"How will you cool them?"

I really can't imagine there's a whole business plan drawn up thinking "space is really cold" will solve it but I'm starting to doubt ...

[ppulfer@mastodon.ie]

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

For example, datacenters are being constructed with massive discounts by councils/municipals and in turn, water and electricity bill of residential area gets higher to pay that offset of costs.

[ids1024@mathstodon.xyz]

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @sundogplanets Plus the big question of how you cool a GPU datacenter surrounded by the vacuum of space.

But then, you probably don't really need to know anything about datacenters to realize that moving them into space is just going to make every aspect of them more difficult and expensive...

[hmig@front-end.social]

@sundogplanets - so much for ever seeing stars again