Fun fact to keep you awake tonight: Just had a chat with an atmospheric chemist and the best comparison she could come up with for the pollution that would result from burning up 1 million "AI datacenter" satellites in Earth's atmosphere is a nuclear war.

[alzimon@mastodon.nl]

@sundogplanets Wouldn't *launching* that many of them have even more atmospheric impact??? (btw I had written off "AI datacenter satellites" as a really bad joke and ignored them, but I see more and more serious people like yourself worrying over them. This in itself wil keep me awake. I'll read up tomorrow.)

[derickr@phpc.social]

@sundogplanets @paul_ipv6 I really don't believe this stupid plan is ever going to happen.

Even if they can launch 1000 sats a week, it'll take 20 years (if none fall down). And that's not even taking into consideration the resources needed to build them.

It's more Elon bluster, and just a way for him to get money out of gullible investors. Think Theranos.

There is (unfortunately) plenty of credible schemes to fight.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@sundogplanets sounds like a true musk legacy

[nichni@mastodonapp.uk]

@paul_ipv6 @sundogplanets Isn't that basically the premise of the Martix-movies?

[michaelc@scholar.social]

@sundogplanets Gotta say... that fact wasn't all that fun.

[michael_w_busch@mastodon.online]

@paul_ipv6 @sundogplanets

That is not what that phrase is supposed to mean.

[sophie@hub.somaton.com]

@Prof. Sam Lawler this is freaking grotesque!

[cafechatnoir@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets

Oh.

Well, I didn't need to sleep ever again.

[christo_459@mastodon.me.uk]

@sundogplanets
Musk is a danger to life on earth

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@sundogplanets "... But we do know it was us that scorched the sky."

[calum@mastodon.dazed-gerbil.com]

@sundogplanets thanks for that 🥺

[sauc3@hachyderm.io]

@sundogplanets

Why can't we have the future where we are led by scientists and not the stupidest assholes?

[albertojavier@universeodon.com]

@sundogplanets let's take a moment to remember those idiots who spent years talking straight sh!t about the so-called chemtrails. Chemtrails don't exist, idiots do..

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@paul_ipv6 @sundogplanets

AiWinter is the secret solution to the "Cooking to death" climate collapse.

See? Broligarchs were right when they said AI fill fix #climatecollapse

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@n_dimension @sundogplanets

sadly, "fix" in the veterinary sense of the word...

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@sundogplanets Guess it's a good thing it's a near-impossibility to get that many into the atmosphere though it's not like I want half of that number either, even a tenth feels like a lot.

[malcircuit@thingy.social]

@sundogplanets seems fine

[markhurst@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets I have a bunch of shows in the Techtonic pipeline right now but at *some* point if/when you're available, I'd love to talk with you on the show about this risk

[ericfielding@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets Nuclear war, but without plutonium so a little different.

[olivia_55@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets then what?