What the actual fuck.

[cresssalad@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets I am fine with this, not because I am happy with having our eternal view of the heavens f*cked up by stinking billionaires and impotent regulation, but because this situation is unmanageable from a physics and mechanics perspective. If all the operators in this sector do this then when 1 sat fails its going to be a big issue. It will make orbital space unaccessible which to me is better as it forces us to show respect and consideration!

[palmandneedle@norden.social]

@sundogplanets I do feel like we're on the path to Neil Stephenson's Seven Eves somehow

[isaackuo@spacey.space]

@sundogplanets @adambecker.bsky.social I have three non-techbro mentality/religion reasons for this:

1) Distract from Tesla's poor earnings
2) Distract from the Epstein files
3) Bezos says he's going to launch zillions of data center satellites so Musk just wants to nab scamee money for it first

But yeah, also Musk is a moron.

[jqmcd@sfba.social]

@sundogplanets Skynet

[minimac@mastodon.world]

@sundogplanets @Nonya_Bidniss

[aachrisg@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@sundogplanets That's what everyone in datacenters wants - unfixable latency and multimillion dollar costs to replace equipment..

[pattyhanson@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Trash filling space with trash.

[david42@mastodon.online]

@sundogplanets Just in case anyone needs to see it: this can't work with today's or even near-future technology.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/01/ai-data-centres-in-space-why-dcs-in-space-cant-work

#OrbitalAI #DataCentersInSpaceCantWork

[nev@flipping.rocks]

@mkj @sundogplanets god knows the Western Canon is stodgy and Eurocentric and male-centric and all that, but like, Greek legends and the Bible and such give you the 101 versions that science fiction writers are adapting/riffing on/inspired by. what i'm trying to say is, even the most basic bitch humanities education could have helped these people

[skjeggtroll@mastodon.online]

@sundogplanets

"From the vanity of the tech-bros who've read science-fiction but not understood it, O Lord, deliver us."

[nurglerider@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets This is just a VC scam.
1. The timeline on launching a million satellites, even "small" ones is decades.

2. Near vacuum isn't a magical environment for heat management.

3. Power from where exactly? And don't say sunlight cause the amount of capture panels needed would be an order of magnitude more material to power a data center.

[countmoosferatu@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Bye, nice telescope views, etc. Hello, Kessler syndrome.

[teajaygrey@snac.bsd.cafe]

I noticed in the credits of re-watching the 4K remastering of Hard Boiled that there was some security company called Starlink, decades ago. fElon Musk couldn't even pick a name that hadn't already been used before.

IMHO, it would probably be cheaper to run fiber to the home, even in the most remote rural areas, than to pollute our skies with satellites for high latency Internet access. But, what do I know? I think last time I checked a 50km spool of single mode fiber could be bought for under $1000.

[w6kme@mastodon.radio]

@sundogplanets The night sky will be spectacular for several decades as all the smashed bits fall back to Earth.

[buckrogers1965@techhub.social]

@sundogplanets

That would disintegrate into shrapnel in days.

The Kessler syndrome, also known as the Kessler effect,[1][2] collisional cascading, or ablation cascade, is a scenario proposed by NASA scientists Donald J. Kessler and Burton G. Cour-Palais in 1978. It describes a situation in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) becomes so high due to space pollution that collisions between these objects cascade, exponentially increasing the amount of space debris over time.[3] This proliferation
...

collisions would accumulate faster than atmospheric drag could remove them.[4] The Kessler syndrome underscores the critical need for effective space traffic management and collision avoidance strategies to ensure the long-term viability of space exploration and use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome#:~:text=The%20theoretical%20cascading%20Kessler%20syndrome,Starlink%2C%20the%20constellation%20of%20SpaceX.

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@PalmAndNeedle @sundogplanets I think I've read that, ages ago. Time for a reread, maybe! My library has it online.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@sundogplanets

If you understand anything about the giant CF of data centers right now this is just the stupidest idea ever.

First, the lifespan of these chips runs on the order of 18 months before they are considered obsolete and the chips fry very quickly so there is a very high failure rate.

Also, the data centers power is determined by the networking of all the components in the data center.

Ask yourself if RF communication broadcast between satellites can work like wires

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@sundogplanets

Well, yeah, the idea of just you know oh we’re going to now reach this science fiction milestone because reasons.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@W6KME @sundogplanets

Just so long as you remember to dodge them. The fireworks SpaceX provided last year over the Caribbean did endanger commercial flights. Now it would be brought everywhere on the planet.

[jplebreton@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets the performance of total seriousness, no matter how absurd the goal, is critical to tech oligarchs' "fake it til you rule the world" strategy. it rarely survives contact with reality but the damage it does is of course very real.