What the actual fuck.

[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@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.

[lcwheeler@ecoevo.social]

@c_dan4th @sundogplanets

[kwayk42@sechtor.social]

@ohmu @dougwade @sundogplanets

KATAMARI DAMACI

[azuaron@cyberpunk.lol]

@sundogplanets I am not an astronaut, but it was my understanding one of the biggest problems in space was radiating waste heat.

I am a computer engineer, and I definitely know one of the biggest problems of data centers is that they generate a lot of waste heat.

Sending ONE satellite into space to be a data center would be the stupidest idea I'd heard all week.

[kaito02@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets somebody stop this nonsense. This will irreversibly deprive our species of land astronomy and the chance of ever leaving this planet.

Maybe the reason why there aren't any aliens is because they all have Elons.