I'm trying to rage-write an article about all the completely awful, useless, polluting, dangerous shit that companies are proposing to launch into orbit and I can't even tell what's fake and what's real on these fucking techbro websites anymore. It's all so fucking ludicrous.
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Actually, it's simple. They are all real, only some won't get funded. Guessing which will is the problem.
@sundogplanets create Website: Orbital Enshittification Watch
"They get the valuation. We get the debris."
Main goal:
Make every reckless satellite proposal look like a bad investment.
By showing:
cheaper Earth alternatives
regulatory delay risk
insurance/liability risk
public opposition risk;
astronomy/ecology backlash
technical feasibility gaps
reputational harm
weak customer demand
bad unit economics
@sundogplanets
Also provide:
- Investor risk memos
- A bullshit-to-physics translator
- Journalist briefing kits
- Real or Fake? Space Startup Edition
- etc.
@CausticHarmony Oh I really really like this. I might wrap the basic "orbital enshittification index" idea into something else I'm working on... thanks!
@sundogplanets Nobody's going to put datacenters in space. They're too heavy and space makes cooling impossible. It's all BS and hype to get them funding. Ignore it.
@bluemonkeyslippers I can't ignore it, because the FCC is taking it very seriously and is likely going to grant licenses for it. And then there will be hundreds/thousands/tens of thousands of giant useless satellites in orbit, and horrible consequences. At least the 10,000+ Starlinks up there now are useful to the people who can afford to purchase internet access from Musk.
@sundogplanets There won't be any. Licenses or not. Take a look at the radiators needed by the ISS for just a few people and computers. Scale it up for the monstrous needs of even a small datacenter.
Datacenters in space aren't even impractical, they're impossible. It's all hype. Nobody is actually going to try doing it. You can't cheat physics.
It's a scam to get more funding from gullible investors. Just ignore it.
@sundogplanets No. Just a realist
@sundogplanets Utterly agree.
Suspect that history reveals rapid change and increasingly centralised power as key factors in the end of past civilisations.
We are just rushing along that path at an insanely reckless pace with drunk psychopaths at the wheels.
@sundogplanets argh this thread.
tell Bannon he got his 'flooded zone' wish granted.
@sundogplanets
All those you've mentioned!!!
Maybe I've missed some, but these here are very worrying to me as well:
* Kessler Syndrome, cascading damage once a threshold has been triggered, endangering *everyting* in the adjacent orbit(s).
* Impact on the atmosphere and global warming due to aluminium ablation of de-orbiting satellites.
For Big Tech and tech bros, this is all a land grab right now, driven by FOMO and perceived 'street creds' (redeemable in Silicon Valley and with the Tangerine Tyrant).
#satellites #SpaceInsanity #pollution #enshittification #BigTech
We've got all of these 'one trick pony's' or 'to a carpenter Everything looks like a nail'. Each is in this race against the others to get the most without taking the time to see what it does. It's just a great grab to grab a piece of empty space, which is ludicrous & each wants the biggest piece.
@sundogplanets oh I totally agree tech media is mostly just fake news lmao and they're bragging about how "AI is great because it does xyz" or "new AI helps remove all your debt" whatever like no one cares
they are speed walking us to extinction.
@sundogplanets I suppose the rage part should be easy, anyway . . . :-/ The writing part sounds more like work though, and I don't envy you the task of choosing which bits of stupidity to subject yourself to in order to do it!
