FCC reply comments are due by 5pm EDT Monday 30 March on Reflect Orbital.
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I managed to proofread and comment on the entire 6 page American Astronomical Society draft response to Reflect Orbital's reply and also write my own draft response and not throw my laptop out the window with rage over Reflect Orbital's absolutely fucking terrible plans. Please clap.
Do I think this will actually help? No, not really, the FCC is evil and blinded by $$$. Do I still have to do this? Yes. Yes I do.
For some reason this whole situation reminds me of the ELF (Earth Liberation Front) and the time they burned down that ski resort in Vail. Sunshine Overaker is still on the FBI's wanted list, almost 30 years later.
Burning down a ski resort is one thing. I can see something like the destruction of our night skies inspiring an entirely new breed of activist, the kind that wouldn't shy away from taking down the very satellites trying to steal the stars from us.
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I managed to proofread and comment on the entire 6 page American Astronomical Society draft response to Reflect Orbital's reply and also write my own draft response and not throw my laptop out the window with rage over Reflect Orbital's absolutely fucking terrible plans. Please clap.
Do I think this will actually help? No, not really, the FCC is evil and blinded by $$$. Do I still have to do this? Yes. Yes I do.
@sundogplanets it is important, and, as a senior I can add "quite satisfying", to later be able to say "I told you so" and get grant money to clean up the mess.
As Bucky said, people always do the right thing, but ONLY after they have exhausted every stupid alternative. This is, I think, called, in biology, "the genetic algorithm"
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I managed to proofread and comment on the entire 6 page American Astronomical Society draft response to Reflect Orbital's reply and also write my own draft response and not throw my laptop out the window with rage over Reflect Orbital's absolutely fucking terrible plans. Please clap.
Do I think this will actually help? No, not really, the FCC is evil and blinded by $$$. Do I still have to do this? Yes. Yes I do.
Thank you for doing this.
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For some reason this whole situation reminds me of the ELF (Earth Liberation Front) and the time they burned down that ski resort in Vail. Sunshine Overaker is still on the FBI's wanted list, almost 30 years later.
Burning down a ski resort is one thing. I can see something like the destruction of our night skies inspiring an entirely new breed of activist, the kind that wouldn't shy away from taking down the very satellites trying to steal the stars from us.
@Legit_Spaghetti @sundogplanets
Unfortunately, slingshots won't shoot that far.
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I managed to proofread and comment on the entire 6 page American Astronomical Society draft response to Reflect Orbital's reply and also write my own draft response and not throw my laptop out the window with rage over Reflect Orbital's absolutely fucking terrible plans. Please clap.
Do I think this will actually help? No, not really, the FCC is evil and blinded by $$$. Do I still have to do this? Yes. Yes I do.
As a complete lay person, with no formal expertise in this matter whatsoever, is it appropriate to write a comment that just says "This is a fantastically stupid fucking idea. What the hell are you thinking? No no no no!"
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I managed to proofread and comment on the entire 6 page American Astronomical Society draft response to Reflect Orbital's reply and also write my own draft response and not throw my laptop out the window with rage over Reflect Orbital's absolutely fucking terrible plans. Please clap.
Do I think this will actually help? No, not really, the FCC is evil and blinded by $$$. Do I still have to do this? Yes. Yes I do.
@sundogplanets CLAPPING!! It wil have an impact.
Also cc'ing @Paulatics as she is on the case in #Canada
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@Legit_Spaghetti @sundogplanets
Unfortunately, slingshots won't shoot that far.
@Mikal @sundogplanets I don't think you'd need anything as dramatic as an anti-satellite weapon (not that anyone could even build such a thing without government funding and without setting off all kinds of alarm bells among the different alphabet soup agencies). Compromising a satellite's software would be a much cheaper and slightly more achievable way to do it.
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@Mikal @sundogplanets I don't think you'd need anything as dramatic as an anti-satellite weapon (not that anyone could even build such a thing without government funding and without setting off all kinds of alarm bells among the different alphabet soup agencies). Compromising a satellite's software would be a much cheaper and slightly more achievable way to do it.
@Legit_Spaghetti @sundogplanets
Where are the antifa super hackers when you need them? Or maybe night sky liberation front?
But, yeah, wouldn't that be hilarious. Hack them so they turn the wrong way and use whatever thrust capability they have to launch themselves out of orbit on a slow path out into deep space. Byyeeee
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@Legit_Spaghetti @sundogplanets
Where are the antifa super hackers when you need them? Or maybe night sky liberation front?
But, yeah, wouldn't that be hilarious. Hack them so they turn the wrong way and use whatever thrust capability they have to launch themselves out of orbit on a slow path out into deep space. Byyeeee
@Mikal @sundogplanets That would be funny, but I don't think they have enough propellant to get there. Deorbiting should be possible though.
Of course, that kind of unplanned maneuver would increase the risk of an ablation cascade, but that's where we're headed anyway with these turbostupid gigaconstellations.
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I managed to proofread and comment on the entire 6 page American Astronomical Society draft response to Reflect Orbital's reply and also write my own draft response and not throw my laptop out the window with rage over Reflect Orbital's absolutely fucking terrible plans. Please clap.
Do I think this will actually help? No, not really, the FCC is evil and blinded by $$$. Do I still have to do this? Yes. Yes I do.
@sundogplanets standing ovation
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@sundogplanets it is important, and, as a senior I can add "quite satisfying", to later be able to say "I told you so" and get grant money to clean up the mess.
As Bucky said, people always do the right thing, but ONLY after they have exhausted every stupid alternative. This is, I think, called, in biology, "the genetic algorithm"
️Grattis application starting something like
"Now that the Kessler syndrome is at most a decade away it is time to start working on a clean-up system. In this [...]" -
I managed to proofread and comment on the entire 6 page American Astronomical Society draft response to Reflect Orbital's reply and also write my own draft response and not throw my laptop out the window with rage over Reflect Orbital's absolutely fucking terrible plans. Please clap.
Do I think this will actually help? No, not really, the FCC is evil and blinded by $$$. Do I still have to do this? Yes. Yes I do.
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