What the actual fuck.

[iamlayer8@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn
Which step exactly is the one where #magicHappens?

@sundogplanets

[fiend_unpleasant@mastodon.social]

@jackemled @sundogplanets Oh we CAN do this and yes the FCC in the USA & the equivalents in other countries would be VERY mad.

I'm not far enough in my ham radio journey to help much in the procurement of Ka band equipment but I figure with enough hours of watching https://www.youtube.com/@saveitforparts someone should be able to figure out how to get the good stuff cheap.

[2rad0@defcon.social]

@sundogplanets

I don't know if that can be profitable, they have to convince a lot of suckers to pay a premium price for an inferior non-wired internet connection. Each node is deorbited every 5 years or so, so that's 200,000 nodes being turned into a dumpster fire and crashing back to earth each year. say each costs $1,000, then it's a billion in overhead they throw away just to repopulate the mesh hardware every 5 years, ignoring the even more critical launch, operations, and insurance costs, I suspect hardware costs are well over $1,000 per node, but I can't find any real numbers to base this on.

The bigger problem though is why TF are phone companies even entertaining the idea of participating in the creation of a new competitor that could easily turn into a monopoly and crush them?

[iamlayer8@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets
My only thought: externalities

[legit_spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al]

@Kiloku @sundogplanets The Kardashev scale is meaningless drivel. It's just some dude making shit up in the 1960s to get government funding from the Soviets. Anyone who references the scale like it's meaningful, ESPECIALLY in an official filing, is not a serious person.

All of these tech idiots need to be bullied aggressively until they go away. We need to locate that idiot from Pretoria's childhood bullies and get some historical data to kick things off.

[kaievans@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets I kind of think the project is cool as fuck and makes a ton of sense. Fuck that guy obviously

[emily_s@mastodon.me.uk]

@sundogplanets 30x more satellites than objects that we are currently tracking in orbit? (Including debris from stuff that blew or was blown up)

One company?

Well that's fucking ridiculous.

[fiend_unpleasant@mastodon.social]

@CStamp @sundogplanets I'm sorry I thought calling Elon Musk a giant child molesting, aspie supremacist, queef would have conveyed that I think he is wrong to do this.

It's important to be factual when we are trying to stop shit heads from doing shit head things so they can't argue back.

How do you think they could damage the atmosphere? And again the US government has jurisdiction over the Ka band in the US, not space. Anyone could decide they hate the new satellites and shoot them down.

[oisin@mastodon.ie]

@sundogplanets WHAT on earth are they going on about, they are like 12 year old boys

[los0220@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets At this point I'm quite sure they're deliberately trying to cause a Kessler syndrome, so we could never escape the hell billionaires are going to lay upon us.

[earl@mast.john1126.com]

@sundogplanets

Do you see the red laser making a giant letter X?

This is a frame of video from "Attack on Skynet base ⧹ T800 Arrival ｜ Terminator Genisys".

You're only "dead" if you reject God's offer of eternal life through the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on a cross. Follow Him and live.

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@sundogplanets oh this surely won't render the planet's orbit unusable for generations, no way.

But also, are you surprised one bit? This is the company that sent a car in space for the lolz

[mtor@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets We aren’t even a Level 1 civilization. Also, this shows their complete lack of understanding of what that scale actually means.

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@sundogplanets I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong with that. Completely risk free with no drawbacks whatsoever.

[zgryphon@gweep.cat]

@michael_w_busch @sundogplanets Trust techbros not only to envision littering on a cosmic scale, but also to equate it with a theoretical hallmark of a hyperadvanced civilization.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@zakalwe @sundogplanets

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[michaelgemar@mstdn.ca]

@ids1024 @GhostOnTheHalfShell @sundogplanets Exactly. The cooling issue alone should rule out space for data centres.

[davidbcohen@twit.social]

@ppulfer @utf_7 @troed @sundogplanets Yeah, Elon might get away with ignoring laws here on Earth but you can’t do that with the laws of physics. Space is not full of magical infinite solar energy or cooling.

This is just a grift to keep the investment for his companies flowing in.

[llanciawn@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets #SpaceTwitter

[cdunnpasadena@sfba.social]

@oblomov @mycotropic @sundogplanets this is clearly just advertising BS. In addition to being a generally bad idea, 500-1000 km is well into the Van Allen belts, so the radiation makes this even more stupid