Post #792494
2026-03-26 14:10 UTC
Replies (17)
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@MattMoose@mastodon.world 2026-03-26 14:51
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social Oh please stop that imbecile from doing more ecological and ideological damage. You have my full support
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@Christo_459@mastodon.me.uk 2026-03-26 15:04
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social Musk must be stopped
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@ChrisCorrigan@cosocial.ca 2026-03-26 15:28
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social @Paulatics@mstdn.ca the perfect collaboration from two of my favourite Tooters!
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@deborahh@cosocial.ca 2026-03-26 15:42
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social hurray! 🌎
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@wilson@nfld.me 2026-03-26 15:58
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social You're doing good work. Thank you
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@makeitmythic@mastodon.social 2026-03-26 16:36
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social thanks for visibly wearing a mask, too.
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@PaulaPapaia@mastodont.cat 2026-03-26 16:47
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social I want to put Elon Musk on a satellite and leave him orbiting for a long while.
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@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-03-26 17:48
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social I suspect exactly zero of these silly "AI data centre" satellites will ever be launched. Data centres are famously hungry for power and cooling. Satellites are famously difficult to run power supplies out to, and exist in a near total vacuum so there is a shortage of stuff to radiate heat out to. The whole scheme makes no sense at all unless seen as solely a scam to get gullible investors to put money into SpaceX.
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@jfmezei@cosocial.ca 2026-03-26 18:48
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social NORAD is the bidy that tracks satellites. It maintains a big database. (During Soviet era, they used radar to detect orbits of undeclared spy satellites).
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@jfmezei@cosocial.ca 2026-03-26 18:49
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social @Paulatics@mstdn.ca great speech BTW.
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@DavidM_yeg@beige.party 2026-03-26 19:33
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social 2023 study showed that as much as 10% of high atmosphere metal compounds were *already* pollution from space technology… and the challenge in that is that unlike other ozone deleters these molecules don’t get consumed, but instead the same molecule can catalyze an ozone destroying reaction again and again, while remaining in the atmosphere for decades. 1/
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@jfmezei@cosocial.ca 2026-03-26 20:35
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca A satellite's orbit is/was defined as a TLE (Two Line Element) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-line_element_set One field is a catalog number maintained by NORAD. It is 5 digits as part of the file format. This year, due to increasing number of objects tracked, we reach this limit and people have to start using a new format that has 6 digits (and 4 digit years !). TLE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-line_element_set Catalog Number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Catalog_Number new formats: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/documentation/gp-data-formats.php (much more complex than TLEs)
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@DLink@posthat.ca 2026-03-26 20:43
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social Fantastic. Thank you
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@bougiewonderland@freeradical.zone 2026-03-26 20:51
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social The clerk’s face at times! Even he can’t manage to totally hide his reaction to this!
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@bjb@fosstodon.org 2026-03-26 21:20
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social The request for approval to launch a million satellites is not so much a request to launch a million satellites as a request for carte blanche for whatever rocket-oriented activities they want to do for the next few decades, without having to ask permission each time. Apparently they did not give a lot of specific details in their request, that's so they can use the blanket approval for whatever they want. 1/2
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@clintruin@mastodon.social 2026-03-26 23:23
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social 🇨🇦 👍 Big Thanks!
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@Crovanian@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 00:14
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca why don’t we pin his net worth to these falling satellites and whoever’s field or house they land on wins the Musk Multi-Million Lotto!