2026-07-01 12:02 UTC
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@esoastronomy@mastodon.social 2026-07-01 12:03
SpaceX plans to launch 1 million satellites for space-based data centres. This diagram shows the satellites that would be visible above our VLT: ⚪ invisible satellites in Earth’s shadow 🟠 2000 satellites brighter than magnitude 7 🔴 200 satellites brighter than magnitude 5 2/4 📷 ESO/O. Hainaut
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-07-01 12:21
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social The FCC should only authorise spectrum over USA, not orbits and not RF elsewhere (AST). Not fit for purpose. "The most extreme proposals come from SpaceX & Reflect Orbital" Those should be rejected by any sane civilisation. SF is not blueprints, but entertainment and/or warnings.
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@Bitchableiter@troet.cafe 2026-07-01 13:24
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social 👀
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@scottytrees@mastodon.social 2026-07-01 13:54
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social we're fucked
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@zero@mastodon.cisti.org 2026-07-01 14:10
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social Whoa. I was thinking it was a computer-generated image. But it's real!!!
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@f4grx@chaos.social 2026-07-01 14:14
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social it is now time to bang on the table.
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@vSourceCode@mastodon.social 2026-07-01 14:24
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social Technology evolves. Trust compounds—or disappears.
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@Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-07-01 15:00
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social Elon Musk is a fossil fuel shill. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-announces-massive-xai-data-center-saudi-arabia-x-rcna244804 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/business/xai-humain-saudi-musk-spacex.html https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187 His numerous boondoggles are intended to launder money for thuggish Russian oil oligarchs & murderous petrostate despots. Imagine how much worse climate change will become under a satellite-enabled surveillance system like his Larry Ellison https://www.businessinsider.com/the-cia-made-larry-ellison-a-billionaire-2014-9 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/ https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2014/09/oracle-the-cia-and-governments-role-in-picking-winners/240320/ https://www.status.news/p/larry-ellison-2020-election-cbs-news-january-6
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@someguy@beige.party 2026-07-01 15:07
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social Neither humanity nor the planet needs this.
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@NathanMurdock@mastodon.social 2026-07-01 15:27
@esoastronomy@mastodon.social Will the datacenters have any advantage in terms of cooling in space? I thought this was a non-starter. Maybe the electricity from the sun is somehow making it worthwhile? I really don't understand why that would be functional. Maybe if there are 1 million of them the math works out? Seems like a high number.