What the actual fuck.

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

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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

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

@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.

@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.

@sundogplanets Sounds like they used AI to generate this. The Kardashev scale is a classification of _civilization_, not "situation". I see this sort of auto-correct in lots of AI slop.

Recent news articles kept referring to Tom Human as the Border Guard.

If this wasn't so serious, I'd laugh.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @sundogplanets SpaceX's unwillingness to be good citizens, and the US government's unwillingness to do anything about it...people are going to die eventually, and possibly a lot of them.

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What people should suggest is that Elon Musk personally move himself into space to oversee the development of his glorious satellite network.

By all means, we should hurry him to the asteroid belt personally so he can collect the raw materials and then fashion the satellites. Tell him it will cut launch cost costs.

@kwayk42 @dougwade @sundogplanets

A rail gun is completely unnecessary. As a scientist pointed out back in the good old Ronnie Reagan, Star Wars days. The way you defeat a network of satellites is to throw a bucket of sand into the right orbit.

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Let's remember who we're talking about here...
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@sundogplanets @adambecker.bsky.social brilliant book and well worth the read. Every time I hear someone mentioning one of these tech bros being intelligent I want a copy to throw at their head. Maybe we need to start explaining to politicians that if LEO is a shooting gallery it means no more GPS, do they remember what it was like navigating the world with paper maps, because we are going back there.

@teajaygrey @sundogplanets the cost of the fibre link is not mainly about the physical cable. The thing that takes time and money is getting permits for digging up roads, access through private fields, planning permission for connection points, and so on. And each new route of cable has to have this sorted from scratch, and some public authorities are slow, obstructive or just downright awkward.

@sundogplanets I’m (jokingly) pretty sure aliens are behind this stupidity. Why else would we be purposely stranding ourselves on this planet by filling up the sky with space junk?

Oh right, because we can…

Times like these I like to disassociate much more hilarious reasons than what reality actually offers, as to why things they way they are. Today it’s aliens, tomorrow? Tardigrades maybe.

@sundogplanets god damn cardassians!!!!! /s

@jakebrake @sundogplanets
Cool 'robots' that are just remote waldos...

Dieser neuerliche SpaceX/Musk-Blödsinn wird sachlich zerlegt in diesem Astro-Blog

https://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/blog/2026/01/27/musks-ki-rechenzentren-im-orbit/#more-18511

Liest sich nicht immer flüssig, wirkt aber sachlich fundiert.

@Pepijn @sundogplanets Only if Step 2 involves a knife missiile.

@deborahh @sundogplanets long at times. And kinda weirdly chunked up. But enjoyable

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All in sun synchronous orbit?

@kwayk42 @spycrab @dougwade @sundogplanets for me, watching the fireballs as they burn up in reentry as the spacecraft that is the net fires its thrusters to take them down, would be more satisfying than smashing them to hazardous bits still in orbit.

(The pollution from the reentry isn’t great, but the smashed bits would reenter eventually anyway, so it’s the same pollution with different timing)