FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK NOOOOO
@sundogplanets ok wow I knew these are bad times but this is actually armageddon in slow motion
@sundogplanets Ye Gods this is literally James Bond shit.
Ok, so what happens when those lasers that say, the soon to be finished ELT, fire into space to adjust for atmospheric disturbance, hit one of these mirrors?
Do they reflect towards the Sun or to some random spot on the Earth?
@sundogplanets how can they approve something that the entire world has to suffer under
@sundogplanets and fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck no! Is the appropriate answer
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@sundogplanets Ha… the Great Cascading Crashing Clusterfuck of 2029 is going to be an interesting sight to behold…
@sundogplanets I’m so sorry. This is incredibly fucked up. For you and the rest of humanity.
@sundogplanets I assume SpaceX will make money off the launch services? If so, the function of the satellite comes second to the total number of satellites proposed?
@sundogplanets The appropriation of a Tolkien name is a giveaway that not only is this a bad idea, but it's been done by the worst people.
@sundogplanets I can only imagine the rest of the world very quickly planning to take down US garbage in space, and there may be no solution other than advocating for peace and dialogue.
Satellites can be very fragile, it would be very bad luck if somebody aimed a high-powered laser at them.
That these things have been tolerated until now doesn't mean that they're going to be tolerated indefinitely.
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Above all, could those fucks please stop using names from Lord of the rings (e.g. Earendil, Palantir, Anduril).
At the moment, I’m reading it to my 7-year-old, and I’d rather not be reminded of all that dystopian tech shit while doing so.
@sundogplanets the stuff of nightmares: “But to expand the technology, Reflect Orbital envisions operating over 50,000 satellites by 2035.”
Americans aren’t the only people inhabiting this beautiful planet and the Earth isn’t flat, surely people and institutions from other countries can pick up a fight and resist this monstrosity - considering it would affect everyone. Right, right?
IT would be a shame if the sattelites or the rockets used for their launching needed parts sourced from other places...
Of course, the best way to fight an orbital threat is before it gets launched.
If I remember correctly, most international law on space came during the height of the Cold War, when neither the USA nor USSR were willing to accept the other having any say on what they launched. This led to the idea that the country containing the launch site is entirely responsible for the things that are launched.
Some of this is sensible. There!s a ceiling on sovereign airspace because it doesn’t make sense that ownership of the moon would change every few minutes as the Earth rotates (for example).
There should be more international regulation, but if the USA doesn’t agree, how do you enforce it? A few countries have anti-satellite weapons, but shooting down US-owned satellites would be politically impossible even where technically feasible (and likely cause more environmental damage than leaving them).
& the whole premise is so fucked up. Quoted from one article: "goal of creating a way to power solar farms at night"
Dude, have you never heard of batteries...?
@_elena @sundogplanets look, we all know there are only 2 countries: america and not america. and because america is always at war with not america, for defensive reasons you understand, why would they worries about how it impacts not america
So, who's the CEO of "Reflect Orbital" and can we place a couple of really big floodlights around his home...?
@sundogplanets how major of a crime would it be to shoot an annoying satellite with a big laser or a rail gun? Asking for a friend, as i don't have either of those :((
@sundogplanets How many shit things are getting Lord of the Rings names?
