FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK NOOOOO
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 Blond 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.
@sundogplanets CO2 weren't enough to warn the earth they need to make their own mirrors? 😠
@sundogplanets This is absurd. I understand that FCC's area of competence is radio spectrum, so why the fuck did they approve this if it has nothing to do with them? Why didn't they pass the accountability to another entity, I don't know, perhaps the FAA?
Moreover, why do USA-based agencies have this kind of power over initiatives that affect the whole world???
@sundogplanets Unfortunately this was inevitable, the current American admin hates science and hasn't met a potentially environmentally disastrous new tech they don't like. Asking for feedback was only ever for show, the decision was already made, much as it was with all the new satellite constellations... Meanwhile their voters are railing about their foes geoengineering and having weather machines, as well as chemtrails.
@sundogplanets yes, because adding more solar input to an overheating planet is an amazing idea
@sundogplanets I can't fathom how incredibly dumb someone has to be to think that all we need right now is more sun time. This is beyond stupidity. These "persons" must be from another planet and they want to terraform, I don't see any other rational explanation.
Remember in fictions, when aliens try to eradicate us, all people of different nations join forces to reach the same goal : getting rid of them.
When will that happen ?
@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.
@sundogplanets
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?
@sundogplanets fuck, seriously???
@sundogplanets We‘re not trying to grow food in the domes of Ganymede here. What are these people smoking?
@sundogplanets I am afraid we need to plan for an astronomy in the post-Kessler era 😭
@sundogplanets Peak stupid, peak stupid.
There’s no other use for this actually than a rich morherfucker to shine to his overnight party.
@sundogplanets This is going to require a new form of Luddite.
Hope India or Russia shoots it down with a missile...
@sundogplanets this is the smallest issue, but I hate how every company (or in this case, satellite) that’s named after something from Tolkien is just terrible for society. Palantir, Anduril, Erebor, etc. There’s probably upwards of a dozen by now.
Corporatism on a globalism scale.
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
@sundogplanets this is literally Karl Pilkington idea
@sundogplanets Oh FFS…what‘s next?
Breaking news: in a surprising twist Reflect Orbital announced their satellites themselves will not be solar but rather nuclear powered. „By using nuclear power we make sure our totally safe satellites keep working just as long as the sun. Check out our lifetime-subscriptions at 20% off for early investors.“
@sundogplanets the mind boggles, what a crock of an idea
