What the actual fuck.

TheStrangelet :bc:

@sundogplanets JFC, everyday its news of yet another billionaire's hard-on to destroy the only inhabitable planet we know of.

Patrick

@utf_7 @troed @sundogplanets, I agree, that would be a great option as well and is supposedly our current policy. Reality is different though: Datacenters and municipals are signing NDA's, so that the public never really know what the impact on current population. At least in space they would have no other option.

Tall Simon

@sundogplanets Perhaps it's time to put that information into the CRASH clock. Consider sending the FCC a summary.

If the critical delay for orbital corrections drops enough, perhaps even below even that associated with standard operations, then there's a really good argument to deny the application.

David Marshall

@sundogplanets

So, when they all collide and fuck up all access to earth orbit for decades, where on the Kardashev scale will we be?

Asking for a planet.

Josh Wood

@sundogplanets You gotta build Skynet somehow

Franchesca

@sundogplanets Ugh! Musk and the other tech bros are the next “great filter” we need to survive as a species.

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@ppulfer @troed @sundogplanets do I talk to an AI?!

Patrick

@utf_7 @troed @sundogplanets, not yet but soon I guess

Chancerubbage

@sundogplanets @Barbramon1

Typical SpaceX Starlink communications satellites are roughly the size of a table or small car, weighing between 570 lbs (260 kg) for earlier models and up to 1,630+ lbs (740+ kg) for newer "V2 Mini" versions. They measure approximately 2.8 to 3.2 meters long, 1.4 to 1.6 meters wide, and are thin, designed for flat-packing in Falcon 9 rockets.

Lenora

@sundogplanets this will be a catastrophic disaster

Charley the Cogean

@sundogplanets
Takeaways: "Orbital data centers" for "accelerating demand for AI" (snicker). "This filing seems quite rushed"..."the details were left vague"

Bottom line: it's an investor scam. The people who wasted billions on AI R&D are looking for the "greater fool" to unload the investments onto, and need a fantasy project to convince people they can still get in on the ground floor of something. Once the IPO is through collecting gullible people's cash, their mission is accomplished.

Troed Sångberg

@ppulfer

The point is that it's _really difficult_ to remove heat in space. Those datacenters will need to run at _much_ slower speeds than datacenters on Earth.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhysics/comments/1o1d0xd/why_cant_we_put_data_centers_in_orbit_where_they/

@utf_7 @sundogplanets

Tom

@sundogplanets did they solved the cooling problem?

Oliver Schafeld

Does anyone have estimates how much #Starlink stock might be earmarked for #Trump loyalists?

#corruption #maga

Comrade Weez

@sundogplanets KESSLER NOW

Benjamin D. Hutchins

@sundogplanets ... what the fuck does that even mean? I know I could search for it, but I'm not sure I want that in my search history.

George B

@sundogplanets

It's not April fools but it is the day after he appeared in the Epstein files in the most embarrassing way possible

Sam Oldman 🐀

@sundogplanets I thought the Dyson sphere was supposed to go around the Sun, not around the Earth ...

draNgNon

@sundogplanets did someone just finish reading @cstross 's _accelerando_ and decide it wasn't featuring future earth as a dystopia?

Brendan Halpin

@PalmAndNeedle @deborahh @sundogplanets I was a big fan but 7 Eves turned me off: dopey biological determinism leading to sexism & racism...

Wandering Adventure Party

What the actual fuck.