i cannot describe how angry i would be at this shit.
i am angry at the idea. want to share angers?
meet me at the launch site with some molotovs, we got some anger to share.
you know those water balloon slingshots?
Just need the Kessler syndrome to put a stop to it all.
Does that apply to LEO? Seems to be self clearing in the medium term
I was a space kid, followed every space shot since 1965, was a super fan of Apollo 11, I had a subscription to Nat Geo growing up, just for the Space photos.
So I can’t believe I’m saying this: Maybe we’ve gone far enough for now, and we should have a moratorium on space for the next 50 years.
We should concentrate on Earth for awhile, dontcha think?
maybe just for this one guy you know
I’ve been really passionate about space. My bday is on the anniversary of the moon landing, and my one aunt has always reminded me of the fact. My great grandfather worked for NASA and my aunt gave me his stargazing binoculars that his brother gave him when he got hired at NASA. That part of my family instilled a huge love of science in me, esp space stuff. I wanna go to space more than anything, but I don’t have the brains or constitution to be an astronaut. So I just daydream, stargaze, and write poems about the cosmos.
Not gonna happen. Not with the effective altruist cult running things.
I dunno, every engineer not working on space almost certainly ends up optimizing some sort of ad delivery system. The tech industry is almost completely enshittified.
I was thinking more like Climate Change and Infrastructure and whatnot and suchlike.
That’s great, but that comes from funding those things, not shutting down a different industry. It’d be better to shut down non-productive industries like bombing brown kids in the Middle East.
Believe it or not, you can do two things at once. Some people are interested in space, some in geology. That’s fine.
i just tried to chew gum and walk and my personal injury attorney would like to know your address (they think you’re cute)
Kinda missing the point there.
Right. Elon hires people on the basis they’ll be making Mars travel possible, but that Starship is really for dumping metal all over the night sky.
Elon Musk is such a goddamned literal supervillain that he managed to make the theme of Firefly wrong.
Apparently, they can take the sky from you.
Ads on the fucking moon are going to do it for me.
If we get that we’ll also definitely get a Moon Banksy.
… ‘Bansky goes to Space’ …
That would make for quite a story.
That’s where you draw the line?
(Also, say hi to your chickens for me)
Well, at least we’ll always have Sinatra.
theoretically
Billionaires don’t give a fuck about anyone but themselves, not even their kids. And, we’ve all agreed to let billionaires run the world, it seems.
We’re just a few millimeters away from revoking that agreement though. There’s not that many of them.
Why not vantablack them? I thought they were already sending prototypes up that aren’t reflective and avoid the light pollution problem.
The real issue is when other countries that don’t give a shit throw stuff up there and we can’t do much about it.
The real issue is when other countries that don’t give a shit throw stuff up there and we can’t do much about it.
Dude, we are the country that doesn’t give a shit and throws stuff up there and we can’t do much about it. WE ARE.
I mean. We shouldn’t probably. But can’t is a pretty strong word for that. Non reflective paint is a great idea. Stealth satellites.
They might put a million satellites into orbit, but they’re certainly not going to be orbital data centers. At least not as we currently understand data centers. The idea that space is cold and therefore a great place to put data centers that get hot is the idea of a stoned moron talking out of their ass. Space is a vacuum, you know what else is a vacuum, the part of your portable coffee mug that keeps your beverage warm or cold for ages, because vacuum is a crazy good insulator. Just because space is cold doesn’t mean the heat from an orbital data center can dissipate into it. This dumb idea is never going to happen unless data canter technology improves to the point where they aren’t environmental disasters anymore.
They already have orbital, distributed, data centres.
It’s called Starlink. It’s already got the equivalent of entire cabinet worth of hardware in a single satellite.
Scott Manley has been doing the maths and shown how it’s already incredibly viable with current tech, especially with how they can already cool 20kw of Starlink sat just fine.
The biggest constraints on earth are town planning costs and delays/time, and of course power. (most DC cooling systems are closed looped)
Starlink satellites carry antennae. That’s all they are. Not serious computational equipment.
It’s either data centres in space or giant mirrors to reflect sunlight.
Presumably his engineers have explained this to him but he didn’t listen
To cool the iss they’re exchanging heat into water pumping to ammonia exchangers then radiated through infrared. The radiators for a space data center would need to be prohibitively massive as I understand it.
For real. Thermal regulation of spacecraft is a problem that current, non-data center, satellites are struggling with and increasing the load by orders of magnitude isn’t going to make things easier. You can easily calculate the area needed for radiative heat transfer for a perfect radiator and you quickly end up with some gargantuan panels. Perfect radiators are also perfect absorbers, so the whole system goes to shit if the panel isn’t facing deep space.
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Here are the numbers as of March 2026.
everything the tech bros touch, dies
Literally the plot of Horizon
It’s so infuriating… I occasionally do astrophotography and it’s getting to the point where any long exposure just has satellite streaks everywhere… Fuck Musk.
I remember just 10 years ago using a special app on my phone to alert me of any potential satellite flares so I could run out and catch them.
Now I can’t look at the night sky for 2 minutes without seeing one.
You can actually see some in broad daylight. I was shocked one day looking up and seeing one (white dot in the picture, verified with sat tracking app).
This photo is AI!
Yikes. This was not a serious comment. I thought that’d be obvious because… it’s literally blue sky with a white dot.
Poe’s Law strikes again:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe’s_lawAdding a
/swould help convey that intent a little more. And if you’re going for the “Got ya!” satire effect, you could always hide it in a spoiler.How so lol?
For the uneducated, what do these look like and can you see them in areas with light pollution?
Yes. They are technically reflected sunlight, so they are as bright as the sun, just very small. It makes sense you can see them during sunlight, since they are reflections of sunlight. You will typically only see them on the side of the sky opposite the sun, but the exact angle depends on the location and orientation of the satellite and the surface that is actually doing the reflection.
Generally speaking, they are dots that fade in somewhat gradually, moving at a consistent pace (typically slower than a shooting star, but faster than an airplane at cruising altitude) in a straight line direction for awhile at full brightness, then fading away.
To me, they look exactly like all the other stars in the sky, except they move, a bit slower than a plane, and they don’t blink.
If you look towards the horizon with the sun, a little before sunrise or after sunset, you’ll probably be able to see flashes of them as they catch the light.
He never respected his fellow man, why start now?
Well that wannabe nazi took everything else, so why not the sky?
I thought they couldn’t take the sky from me!
We haven’t even finished burning the sky and boiling the sea!
And serenity is nowhere to be found.
