@lowqualityfacts it takes significantly less propellant to launch them on a one-way trip into deep space. And as an added bonus, they'll die of slow starvation as well.

@neurovagrant less than 2 years after Motorola issued that bond, a significant portion of which was earmarked for Iridium?
Iridium filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the first time. They had to be bailed out and fire-saled, basically wiping out Motorola's investment.

@neurovagrant as usual, Bloomberg can't help themselves. And must omit the facts that are embarrassing.

That century bond in the dot-bomb era?

Motorola, in 1997.

Right as they were cratering from neglecting cellular, struggling in semiconductors, and eating massive losses from Iridium.

@atax1a @BlackDragon @eloy and some of us telling people to stop doing stupid shit like that, have been doing containerization longer than many of these people have been on this Earth. And no, I am not exaggerating in the least.

@jlamoree @lzg wait, you don't just throw them all in a big tub labeled "USB"? (Look, I have accepted that no matter what it will be the wrong cable.)

@sundogplanets I would ask if you were fucking serious and why the FCC hasn't thrown it out, but calling the people left there "clownshoes" is an unforgivable insult to the footwear of professional entertainers.

Also, worth noting, that isn't even fucking *ZERO* on the Kardashev because that's not even a goddamn relevant scale. Please somebody start fucking executing these techbro oligarchs to save the rest of us.

@0xabad1dea best I can do is blame linking this on you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E