What the actual fuck.

[cy@fedicy.us.to]

Not enough cover. Build it on a pickup truck!

CC: @sundogplanets@mastodon.social

[michael_w_busch@mastodon.online]

@Kiloku @sundogplanets

SpaceX's hype has never been constrained by facts.

[nev@flipping.rocks]

@sundogplanets it's incredibly embarrassing and pathetic that a lot of the techie sorts with access to power now are people who…like I say, there's no such thing as reading too much science fiction, but there IS such a thing as reading too LITTLE stuff that ISN'T science fiction.

[kwayk42@sechtor.social]

@cy @sundogplanets I mean if I'm in international waters with a gun powerful enough to shoot down satellites, I'm pretty sure I'll be good

[mariyadelano@hachyderm.io]

@sundogplanets @adambecker.bsky.social this rec made me happy to see because it’s published by Hachette (where I work) and I just got a copy from the office to gift to a family member who’s been a bit too AI-optimistic.

[heymarkreeves@mstdn.social]

@sundogplanets @adambecker.bsky.social

[alephwyr@chitter.xyz]

@sundogplanets Hell is not below the earth

[quinn9282@mas.to]

@sundogplanets Other than the obvious, how on earth are you supposed to be able to maneuver such a large number of satellites in extremely close proximity in orbit to prevent them from colliding with each other or anything else at all? With that number of satellites, even if just one collision were to occur at some point, it would be beyond disastrous (at worse, we'd have like many thousands of satellites/junk concurrently raining down into Earth kinda thing).

[cy@fedicy.us.to]

Entire US navy vs 1 boat boi with a wave motion gun

[riaresists@mastodon.social]

@schrotthaufen @sundogplanets
Elon paid for it so…
#ImpeachTheGQP

[bjn@mstdn.social]

@sundogplanets Orbiting data centres are stupid for a huge range of reasons, not the least powering them, cooling them and fixing them. Just another idiotic idea from Musk (Optimius, Cybertruck, The Boring Company, “Full” self driving, etc….).

[mkj@social.mkj.earth]

@nev Or when you're reading science fiction which was intended to be a warning, and treating it as something that should be done because it's Cool!

"I have read Do Not Build The Torment Nexus and decided to dedicate the rest of my life to ensuring that we *never* have a Torment Nexus" said no billionaire ever.

@sundogplanets

[mycotropic@beige.party]

@sundogplanets

“Orbital data centers are the most efficient way to meet the accelerating demand for AI computing power,”

Demand isn't accelerating, you're forcing it on everyone you assholes!! We can't NOT use it when you make it an integral part of every product you sell ASSHOLES!

[hattom@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets my condolences. The moment I saw this story, my thoughts were with you.

[mycotropic@beige.party]

@angelastella @pthenq1 @sundogplanets

That's the plot of #Seveneves
https://www.nealstephenson.com/seveneves.html

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@mycotropic @sundogplanets and orbital days centers are a horrible idea

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@sundogplanets
The Kardashev "levels" are pure fantasy, not even good SF.

[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.