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Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

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  • iamsI This user is from outside of this forum
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    @acm_redfox @kiri @sundogplanets Ice Particle Shotgun Missiles; the ice would hopefully melt under solar radiation and/or enter atmosphere after dislodging/shredding tf out of objects in orbit, maybe? First strike failed? More melting blammo ice cloud blasts. No lazers, grappling hooks, precise kenetic munitions, nukes, etc. Just a cloud of ice belched from high atmo from a dumb metal casing and a falling trajectory.

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      @acm_redfox @kiri @sundogplanets Ice Particle Shotgun Missiles; the ice would hopefully melt under solar radiation and/or enter atmosphere after dislodging/shredding tf out of objects in orbit, maybe? First strike failed? More melting blammo ice cloud blasts. No lazers, grappling hooks, precise kenetic munitions, nukes, etc. Just a cloud of ice belched from high atmo from a dumb metal casing and a falling trajectory.

      :copyleft: Kiri :tux:K This user is from outside of this forum
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      @iams
      Lmao
      @acm_redfox @sundogplanets

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      • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

        If anyone has time and energy to set up instructions for how to submit a comment to the FCC (it's really fucking complicated, on purpose, I'm sure), I would very much appreciate it! Otherwise I'll do it in the coming days.

        Seán FenianZ This user is from outside of this forum
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        #29

        @sundogplanets@mastodon.social A milliuon satellites is utterly barking insane. Based on the rate they're burning out GPU/VPUs in AI datacenters, my rough estimate is they're going to need 140 Falcon 9 launches PER DAY just to sustain the constellation. A million satellites that need replacement every 18 months on average?

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        • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

          Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

          https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

          Comments due March 6.

          I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

          Strider Uwe 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽U This user is from outside of this forum
          Strider Uwe 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽U This user is from outside of this forum
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          @sundogplanets But SpaceX will “scal[e] to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!” How could you possibly be against that?!?

          Yeah, it’s batshit crazy, Musk is hyping for IPO (although I don’t know if he believes it himself… he’s huffed his own farts a few times too many). I’ll be astonished if more than, I dunno, a few dozen ever get launched. By that point, it should be clear what a stupid idea it is.

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          • Strider Uwe 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽U Strider Uwe 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽

            @sundogplanets But SpaceX will “scal[e] to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!” How could you possibly be against that?!?

            Yeah, it’s batshit crazy, Musk is hyping for IPO (although I don’t know if he believes it himself… he’s huffed his own farts a few times too many). I’ll be astonished if more than, I dunno, a few dozen ever get launched. By that point, it should be clear what a stupid idea it is.

            Roger MooreV This user is from outside of this forum
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            @UweHalfHand @sundogplanets
            I think it's more about justifying the purchase of xAI, which otherwise makes no sense, not that orbital data centers make the tiniest bit of sense. It's part of a pattern of Musk using one of his companies to buy another to protect him from the shame of the purchased company going belly up. See Tesla/Solar City and xAI/X for previous examples. Don't be surprised if Neuralink is next.

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            • Roger MooreV Roger Moore

              @UweHalfHand @sundogplanets
              I think it's more about justifying the purchase of xAI, which otherwise makes no sense, not that orbital data centers make the tiniest bit of sense. It's part of a pattern of Musk using one of his companies to buy another to protect him from the shame of the purchased company going belly up. See Tesla/Solar City and xAI/X for previous examples. Don't be surprised if Neuralink is next.

              Strider Uwe 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽U This user is from outside of this forum
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              @VATVSLPR @sundogplanets Yeah, I think you’re right. It’s some crazy tapdancing, I’m just not sure how much of it Musk believes himself… I’d be prepared to believe any number between 0 and 100%

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              • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

                https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

                Comments due March 6.

                I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

                Cedar Fen Farm
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                @sundogplanets

                If other countries have any sense, they'll shoot them down after notifying the UN whatever pertinent commitee.

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                • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                  Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

                  https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

                  Comments due March 6.

                  I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

                  Toni AittoniemiG This user is from outside of this forum
                  Toni AittoniemiG This user is from outside of this forum
                  Toni Aittoniemi
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                  #34

                  @sundogplanets Our economy is no longer serving the public, but the financial system.

                  Data centers in space won’t work, but the investment bankers don’t know that, so bullshit that make number go up rules.

                  Data centers in space are the tulip craze of our age!

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                  • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                    Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

                    https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

                    Comments due March 6.

                    I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

                    naught101N This user is from outside of this forum
                    naught101N This user is from outside of this forum
                    naught101
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                    #35

                    @sundogplanets

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                    • Roger MooreV Roger Moore

                      @UweHalfHand @sundogplanets
                      I think it's more about justifying the purchase of xAI, which otherwise makes no sense, not that orbital data centers make the tiniest bit of sense. It's part of a pattern of Musk using one of his companies to buy another to protect him from the shame of the purchased company going belly up. See Tesla/Solar City and xAI/X for previous examples. Don't be surprised if Neuralink is next.

                      naught101N This user is from outside of this forum
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                      @VATVSLPR @UweHalfHand @sundogplanets like a stupidity ponzi scheme. Using the first stupid as a down-payment on future stupid.

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                      • :copyleft: Kiri :tux:K This user is from outside of this forum
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                        :copyleft: Kiri :tux:
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                        #37

                        @lauerhahn Fair point!

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                        • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                          Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

                          https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

                          Comments due March 6.

                          I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

                          anjaA This user is from outside of this forum
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                          #38

                          @sundogplanets Another huge distraction from the real challenges we face as a humanity?

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                          • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                            Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

                            https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

                            Comments due March 6.

                            I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

                            bitB This user is from outside of this forum
                            bitB This user is from outside of this forum
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                            @sundogplanets

                            Why would they even want AI datacenters in space? We haven't solved how to cool them without massive amounts of water down here on earth, how are they going to cool them up there? Some months back I read of someone else wanting to create the same datacenters in international waters. Is this just a new way for them to try to avoid legal liability? If that's the case, I wonder what kind of content they will generate up there.

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                            • Toni AittoniemiG Toni Aittoniemi

                              @sundogplanets Our economy is no longer serving the public, but the financial system.

                              Data centers in space won’t work, but the investment bankers don’t know that, so bullshit that make number go up rules.

                              Data centers in space are the tulip craze of our age!

                              CyC This user is from outside of this forum
                              CyC This user is from outside of this forum
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                              Our economy never served the public. It is by definition in service to the financial system. Our society on the other hand has at times served the public. Forget the economy, embrace society, and the people with a million spacebux will lose all their power over you.

                              If only I could convince everyone else to do that too...

                              CC: @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
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                              • Awk & shaM Awk & sha

                                @kiri @sundogplanets you’re not missing anything; this is absolutely the problem with data centers, structures famously constrained by their ability to reject heat, in space, a place famous for its insulative properties. It’s stupid.

                                Not to mention that data centers require maintenance and equipment replacement. This aspect of data centers is why companies decided not to put them in the ocean (where heat would be easier to reject). How do they think they’ll do maintenance? Or do the satellites just become trash after a few years?

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                                @kiri @sundogplanets @mmcknett Surely that is the point of doing it, they will break and he has to launch more to fill that gap. It ensures continual launches and hence profits

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                                • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                                  Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

                                  https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

                                  Comments due March 6.

                                  I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

                                  Humble Fan of Atty. WooB This user is from outside of this forum
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                                  Humble Fan of Atty. Woo
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                                  #42

                                  @sundogplanets

                                  what I personally want for my birthday on the 13th is for SpaceX or any large building to fall on Musk and end him.....I won't even ask for a Nobel Peace Prize if that were to happen. I will issue a small smile or two.....I yield back my time.

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                                  • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                                    Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

                                    https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

                                    Comments due March 6.

                                    I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

                                    TehAppKillerT This user is from outside of this forum
                                    TehAppKillerT This user is from outside of this forum
                                    TehAppKiller
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                                    #43

                                    @sundogplanets That means to not comply with Police investigations and Courts orders (grok, grokipedia,...) worldwide through alternative SpaceX internet except by use of force. That means controlling Space launches. In addition to polluting our sky and the Space

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                                    • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                                      Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

                                      https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

                                      Comments due March 6.

                                      I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

                                      MuodM This user is from outside of this forum
                                      MuodM This user is from outside of this forum
                                      Muod
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                                      @sundogplanets AI data centers project means the invasion of public space by one SpaceX!

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                                      • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                                        Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

                                        https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

                                        Comments due March 6.

                                        I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

                                        jorikiJ This user is from outside of this forum
                                        jorikiJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                                        @sundogplanets

                                        science fiction coming alive ...

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                                        • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                                          Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

                                          https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

                                          Comments due March 6.

                                          I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.

                                          klausfiendK This user is from outside of this forum
                                          klausfiendK This user is from outside of this forum
                                          klausfiend
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                                          #46

                                          @sundogplanets Any chance the guidelines for commenting when the FCC was mulling axing/reinstating Net Neutrality are still valid at this point?

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