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  • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

    I feel like this is a good time for everyone to go read "More Everything Forever" by @adambecker.bsky.social because that completely unrealistic and awful techbro mentality/religion the only way to explain this FCC filing (and that book explains this very clearly!)

    Time to go outside and listen to NZ birds as the sun comes up, because fuck SpaceX.

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    @sundogplanets I do feel like we're on the path to Neil Stephenson's Seven Eves somehow

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    • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

      I feel like this is a good time for everyone to go read "More Everything Forever" by @adambecker.bsky.social because that completely unrealistic and awful techbro mentality/religion the only way to explain this FCC filing (and that book explains this very clearly!)

      Time to go outside and listen to NZ birds as the sun comes up, because fuck SpaceX.

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      @sundogplanets @adambecker.bsky.social I have three non-techbro mentality/religion reasons for this:

      1) Distract from Tesla's poor earnings
      2) Distract from the Epstein files
      3) Bezos says he's going to launch zillions of data center satellites so Musk just wants to nab scamee money for it first

      But yeah, also Musk is a moron.

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      • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

        What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?

        Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK

        https://au.pcmag.com/networking/115649/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

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        @sundogplanets Skynet

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        • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

          What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?

          Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK

          https://au.pcmag.com/networking/115649/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

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          @sundogplanets @Nonya_Bidniss 😲😲😲

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          • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

            What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?

            Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK

            https://au.pcmag.com/networking/115649/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

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            @sundogplanets That's what everyone in datacenters wants - unfixable latency and multimillion dollar costs to replace equipment..

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            • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

              What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?

              Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK

              https://au.pcmag.com/networking/115649/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

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              @sundogplanets Trash filling space with trash.

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              • mkjM mkj

                @nev Or when you're reading science fiction which was intended to be a warning, and treating it as something that should be done because it's Cool™!

                "I have read Do Not Build The Torment Nexus and decided to dedicate the rest of my life to ensuring that we *never* have a Torment Nexus" said no billionaire ever.

                @sundogplanets

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                @mkj @sundogplanets god knows the Western Canon™ is stodgy and Eurocentric and male-centric and all that, but like, Greek legends and the Bible and such give you the 101 versions that science fiction writers are adapting/riffing on/inspired by. what i'm trying to say is, even the most basic bitch humanities education could have helped these people

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                • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                  What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?

                  Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK

                  https://au.pcmag.com/networking/115649/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

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                  @sundogplanets This is just a VC scam.
                  1. The timeline on launching a million satellites, even "small" ones is decades.

                  2. Near vacuum isn't a magical environment for heat management.

                  3. Power from where exactly? And don't say sunlight cause the amount of capture panels needed would be an order of magnitude more material to power a data center.

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                  • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                    What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?

                    Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK

                    https://au.pcmag.com/networking/115649/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

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                    @sundogplanets Bye, nice telescope views, etc. Hello, Kessler syndrome.

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                    • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                      What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?

                      Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK

                      https://au.pcmag.com/networking/115649/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

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                      I noticed in the credits of re-watching the 4K remastering of Hard Boiled that there was some security company called Starlink, decades ago. fElon Musk couldn't even pick a name that hadn't already been used before.

                      IMHO, it would probably be cheaper to run fiber to the home, even in the most remote rural areas, than to pollute our skies with satellites for high latency Internet access. But, what do I know? I think last time I checked a 50km spool of single mode fiber could be bought for under $1000.
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                      • Prof. Sam LawlerS Prof. Sam Lawler

                        What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?

                        Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK

                        https://au.pcmag.com/networking/115649/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

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                        @sundogplanets
                        You can't have effective data centres in space though!
                        https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

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