FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK NOOOOO
@sundogplanets are we going to a subscription service for sunlight access?!?
@sundogplanets Oh what the fuck. This is a disaster.
Would be ironic if there was a VEI 8 volcanic eruption just after these stupid satellites were launched 🤦♂️😟
@sundogplanets I wonder if we can crowdfund launching 100 tons of sand into a counter-synchronous orbit.
@sundogplanets ...how hard would it be to shoot one of those down/away from earth with a kinetic rocket without Kessler-ising all of low orbit?
Because of this, I dreamed of being with a friend by moonlit trees and telling her about Reflect Orbital. Her response: WTF!
Can't we just stop doing shit!
@sundogplanets I've lived too long. Or somebody has, anyway.
@sundogplanets anyone care to explain what the benefit of having more sunlight on earth is supposed to be? Seriously i don't know. My first theory is #billionaires plan to create a #nuclear winter to a) get rid of most of the population while they survive in bunkers b) "solve" #globalwarming by creating a 100 year cloud cover. Or longer if required. The mirror satellite serve for the resorts in #Albania & #Gaza so they can play food gardening while tanning like when #America was great.
@sundogplanets @lisamelton This is some ass hat health influencer extolling the virtues of 24x7 sun exposure isn’t it?
Who the fuck actually wants this?!
@sundogplanets "Single test satellite"
So when it fails, they'll take it down and never try it again ?
So when it fails, they'll take it down and never try it again !
@sundogplanets this is a great video breaking down why this is a bad idea to begin with https://youtu.be/0rF2oZPe_WI?si=YsSg0HaPGlkWyxEh
@sundogplanets They have completely lost their minds! WTF!
"But to expand the technology, Reflect Orbital envisions operating over 50,000 satellites by 2035, effectively surrounding the Earth with a fleet of mirrors."
@sundogplanets
Maybe I’m naive … why can’t we exist in the tempo of our surroundings. We seem to always want things bigger and faster while the natural world just moves along at a steady forward pace…
If it's out of governments' jurisdiction to regulate it, then it's also out of their jurisdiction to protect it.
Who is launching the startup to shoot this thing the fuck out of the sky, and how do I donate to that cause?
@sundogplanets "....even if the Commission had authority to review and condition these operations (which it does not), these harms are unlikely to occur.”
So, the commission didn't review the operations but has concluded that harms are unlikely to occur. Seems legit....
so in summary just a scam
@sundogplanets the fact that these sorts of people steal names from Tolkien's legendarium drives me mad. People go and build the eye of sauron and start calling it by a heroic name
@sundogplanets the math about their offer to intended clients still doesn't math, right? What happens when they go bankrupt?
@sundogplanets Oh... seriously... 🙄 The problems just keeps piling up 😠
@sundogplanets Didn't have Icarus on my bingo card for 2026 😱
@sundogplanets they mean 2 in 1: miror satellite that (with a small bump of a micro meteorite or space junk) will be transformed into a giant random-spinning death-ray from space… yay future!:/
@sundogplanets Billionaires just gotta have their solar powered death rays.
@sundogplanets And why do they keep using names from Tolkien’s ?
@sundogplanets Are they out of their mind? 😡
@sundogplanets surely other countries are within their rights to shoot this fucking thing down before it gets into orbit
Kessler-Syndrom 3....2....1 ... done . Oupsi.
@sundogplanets Reflecting sunlight *back* on an overheating planet. The FCC is trying to kill us, right?
I can only conclude they took a massive bung to approve something which they admit is outside their jurisdiction.
@sundogplanets what the actual fuck.
And tech bros, please stop naming these abominations after Tolkien.
@sundogplanets Hope the EU is going to approve of a plan to shoot those things out of the sky.
@sundogplanets how can a single country unilaterally approve something that will fuck up astronomy research for everyone?
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Why do all the most fascist projects seem to have Tolkien-stolen names these days? Palandir. Valar Ventures. Etc.
@sundogplanets I'm filing this under J, for 'just because you can do this doesn't mean it's the right thing to do'.
Fucking #TechBros...
Absolutely fucking ridiculous decision 🤦♂️🤔
Let's hope in November the Pumpkin in Chief losses his grip and Brendan Car nitwit, tosser, wanker, bastard cunt is FIRED, and taken to court.
@sundogplanets this is so much of BS fresh out of bad movies that honestly, I could see some states actively wanting to disrupt these one by crashing some of their sattelites into them.
Brendan Carr is an asshole @theverge
@sundogplanets it just seems mad to me that the (very compromised) communications agency of one country make these decisions that affect the whole world. Once again America acting like it's the only thing that exists
@sundogplanets Wasn’t this a plot of James Bond film???
@sundogplanets Is there a point where Kesser's syndrome would be (overall) preferable over continued commercial use of space?
@sundogplanets Didn't you pay a US billionaire so that you can watch the sky? 🤐
Next up: Charging for breathable air.
