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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....

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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 https://youtu.be/z5rRZdiu1UE

@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

@sundogplanets fucks sake

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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 😬😬😬

@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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>Earandil-1

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...

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Absolutely fucking ridiculous decision 🤦‍♂️🤔

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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.

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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 oh no

@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 idiots

@sundogplanets yup

@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 ?

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@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.

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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

🙍🫤😿

@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.