FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK NOOOOO
@sundogplanets
I read it had the effect of the light of a full moon. Not really that impressive right?
What's the intended use case? I read solar panels somewhere but that's pointless with that little extra light.
@sundogplanets @jonny “workers starving, markets so flush with cash that they have to throw it at geo-engineering projects that can’t make money but will upset _every single fucking remaining_ delicately balanced natural system.”
Literally the only reason I’m getting out of bed right now is because I’ve fully internalised the fact we live in a knockoff version of Cyberpunk 2027.
@sundogplanets here’s hoping the test is a colossal failure and the company goes bankrupt.
@sundogplanets joining Palantir in the category of “awful things named after Tolkien things.”
@sundogplanets Its about the financial gains. I very much doubt any sane person believes it will work but when they float it on the stock market they will make billions. The test project does not even have to work.
It needs to be shot down. A nation with space powers has permission to take them out.
@sundogplanets wtaf?
how does the rest if the world feel about this crap?
Since everyone that trump touches turns to shit I have high hopes that this approach will fail spectacularly. Especially since, as ideas go, this one is a hodgepodge of Dunning-Kruger AI output created by people with no knowledge.
@sundogplanets Eärendil-1.
yep. yep yep yep. is there something I can smash safely around the house, we need some busted pallets out back or something
@sundogplanets fingers crossed this fails spectacularly and all of the satellites explode on launch or something. that would be really funny
@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.
