Post #3672631
2026-07-08 12:17 UTC
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116880564364823224
If (or more realistically, when) SpaceX or another techbro-led company has a major 'incident' and destroys low earth orbit for generations, meaning humans cannot leave the Earth's surface, do we sue them? Seriously, what kind of compensation is that for all of us? Fuck unregulated #capitalism and all capitalists.
#SpaceX #LEO #kesslersyndrome
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@zazzoo@mstdn.ca 2026-07-08 13:09
@elasticsoul@mastodon.social I was thinking about this the other day, this mad rush to create the Kessler effect. There is so very much wrong with the techbros' cult ideology but, that aside: If their goal is to maintain an exponential growth in energy consumption, which they see as a metric of human progress culminating in the singularity, then they need to expand out get off the planet before it's all used up. They need solar arrays, they need data centres in orbit and on the Moon and Mars. They need Dyson spheres around stars. None of that can happen if they can't even get a rocket off the surface of the Earth.