HAHAHA FUCK SpaceX just launched a nuclear powered satellite.
Sounds like this particular satellite is tiny and doesn't have a lot of tritium on board but HOLY SHIT this is a bad precedent.
@sundogplanets I guess that’s one way to circumvent NZs no-nukes policy …
@sundogplanets Great, between the data centers stealing our water and jacking up our utilities bills, now we can think about getting nuked by a falling satellite from Elon. You can never hate capitalism enough.
Next step: putting an heavier nuclear powered satellite in a heavy version of the launcher, and follow the news for America's innovation: Having a nuclear disaster on their land by themselves.
@sundogplanets Bad precedent is kind of their entire business model. :(
@sundogplanets this is gonna fall to earth some day, isn't it?
@sundogplanets Seems like a test for commercial deep-space exploration to me.
They probably had permits to work on it, too. 🤔
@sundogplanets of course they have a plan to recover it safely once its useful life ends
@sundogplanets Let me say, on behalf of all sane people, NOOOOOOOOOPE.
@sundogplanets I was going to exclaim about how was this allowed to go forward without the requisite discussion and debate prior to its approval, but then I remembered that the US is dead and has no functioning government.
@sundogplanets What fun imagining one of the rockets that take up those satellites blowing up over a populated area, or any other area for that matter.
@sundogplanets Thanks for sharing. The risk from possible launch failure alone is concerning and that's just the tip of the iceberg. 😩
@sundogplanets I always wonder how they will handle the cooling when running nuclear power in space, espescially in sci-fi but now in reality.
What could possibly go wrong…
@sundogplanets I love how the right hand part of the nuclear satellite seems to be made up of an IKEA drawer section attached to one of those stovetop power connectors.
