🚨 Beyond the limit 🚨

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@Jumpmed @esoastronomy
Also his friend that made him rich. Peter Thiel and totally evil Palintir.

[neia@zoner.work]

@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @esoastronomy@mastodon.social Reflect Orbital is worse than useless. It transmits a few percentage points of sunlight to a spot on the ground. This is intended as a means to make solar farms operate at night, but a satellite providing 5% of sunlight to a few square kilometers of solar power is going to be a lot more expensive than 5% more solar panels and increasingly cheap batteries (like iron flow batteries).

The orbiting datacenter plans are a way to get super expensive computers nominally beyond Earth jurisdiction, but maintaining an orbital datacenter is basically impossible and they can barely shed heat.

The satellite internet swarms are an alternative to previous generation internet satellites. Lots of close satellites to take the place of fewer, further ones.

[stephendedalus@hostux.social]

@esoastronomy
"Firefly" intro: "Burn the land and boil the sea, You can't take the sky from me."

Oligarchs: "Hold my beer!"

[newhereish@mastodon.social]

@esoastronomy That is literally selling stolen moonlight. That light those mirrors would collect belongs to all of humanity, not to some rocket bros with sonnengewher vibes.

[clydesider@mastodon.scot]

@esoastronomy FCC should only be allowed to authorise geosynchronous orbit above USA. They have no right to pollute space above me or anyone else who doesn't live in the USA.

[starkrg@myside-yourside.net]

@esoastronomy This is disturbing to say the least. If there's truly no way to stop them from doing this, though, what if we just taxed the hell out of them and used that money to build a scientific outpost on the far side of the moon. That way they get their sky-destroying capitalist's wet dream, and we get a nifty new place to do science and, most of all, the sky would be clearer than on Earth.

[misssqueakybrew@mastodon.social]

@esoastronomy When they lose their orbit, they'll probably kill us all.

[a_goodall_spaceship@norden.social]

@esoastronomy someone has to tell him that it will stay dark under his bed.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@Huntn00 @esoastronomy

Necro-capitalism
Jim stewartson
Mind War

American Necrocracy: How the U.S. Government Became a Death Creator
The world needs a revolution of the living.

https://www.mind-war.com/p/american-necrocracy-how-the-us-government

[vampirdaddy@chaos.social]

@esoastronomy
Why does the FCC have authority over the space above Europe?

They already allowed a US satellite company hogging european HAM radio frequencies even when in radio range of europe.

[numerfolt@kirche.social]

@esoastronomy I'm not surprised at all, great job!

[dtl@8bitorbust.info]

@esoastronomy would it be possible to use this image in a talk, with appropriate credit?

[incognitim@mastodon.social]

@esoastronomy

#KesslerSyndrome

[mimblewimble@mastodon.social]

@esoastronomy We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky

[disisdeguey@expressional.social]

@connynasch @gunstick @esoastronomy I think Elon Musk is a threat to Humanity. I hope he gets stopped before all these madness gets real.

[rustedcomputing@discuss.systems]

@esoastronomy Seems like it would be a lot cheaper for the government to force investment in rural fiber...

[lydialurch@mastodon.social]

@esoastronomy Why would anyone want sunlight at night?

[truenorthspice@mastodon.world]

@esoastronomy

my eyes can't handle that moving and flashing in the night sky!

[deepfryed@fosstodon.org]

@esoastronomy don't worry, 80k and beyond they'll be stopped by Kessler syndrome very quickly.

[cassandravert@indieweb.social]

@esoastronomy Wow, that looks like a lens that's all scratched up, but it's the sky.