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  • Prof. Sam Lawlersundogplanets@mastodon.social
    Apr 14, 2026, 7:20 PM

    Oh hey, there's an ASTRONOMY MITIGATIONS section!! All of the collective astronomy yelling and screaming is working!!!

    ...oh wait it's all total bullshit, because they don't actually have anything close to a satellite design or even a size. Three whole sentences at the very end of the document!! They care so much about saving the night sky and all of astronomy research!

    And with that, I desperately need to go take a walk in the woods.

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  • Danielcaeruleus657@masto.es
    Apr 14, 2026, 8:26 PM

    @sundogplanets I work in collision avoidance and space debris and cataloguing and this shit is just getting worse and worse... I can't believe how much they want to launch. It's just not feasible!! Fucking millionaires...

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  • S A MSarcasmAlertMaybe@mstdn.social
    Apr 14, 2026, 11:17 PM

    @sundogplanets
    Looks like another grift to keep their investors wallets open while a few psychos continue the race to be the first trillionaire. The others in that race won't mind being 2nd, 3rd, 4th.....
    And or the long plan is to build a gigantic space station for billionaires and slaves piece by piece while disguised as doing something good for everyone.

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  • Holger DittmannHolgerTDittmann@ruhr.social
    Apr 15, 2026, 1:57 AM

    @sundogplanets Since a lot of Techbros are obsessed with naming their crap after concepts and items from High Fantasy or Sci-Fi I‘m actually amazed that no one has yet come up with the datacenter constellation „Hactar“. The giant computer from The Hitchhiker’s Guide which disintegrated into a dust cloud that enshrouded the planet Krikkit to isolate the inhabitants from the rest of the universe and make them paranoid. But maybe that’s just too obvious even for Techbros.

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  • Cat WestCatawu@mastodon.social
    Apr 14, 2026, 10:04 PM

    @sundogplanets They would, if they could have their way, pollute the skies, day and night to the point where they could project ads across the sky. To them, everything is for sale. Nothing is collectively ours. Starlink remains a private profit endeavor using and abusing the sky above as their personal playground and the earth below as their garbage dump. Guess where we are?

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  • lachlan slowly taming rustlachlan@mastodon.social
    Apr 14, 2026, 10:32 PM

    @sundogplanets Other than seperating investors from money, and - let's face it - a proxy for a dick measuring contest - what's even the point? Underwater data centres was odd, but made some sense to me. Being in space just makes everything about a computer work worse - I mean, let's start with cooling, powering, radiation hardening and cosmic rays for a basic 4.

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  • Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧f800gecko@mastodon.online
    Apr 15, 2026, 12:56 AM

    @sundogplanets

    What Bezos, Musk and even the nice folk at NASA have done is they've managed to abstract humanity. To them, humanity is merely an object in a great masterly program, called upon when needed (for funds extraction), otherwise null, a hindrance even, when it appears unbidden.

    Our priorities need revision.

    Until we can buy time by mitigating climate change, all this stuff is fireworks at the close of a long weekend—except come Monday, we won't be going back to work.

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  • ysb33rysb33r@mastodon.social
    Apr 15, 2026, 2:37 PM

    @staringatclouds @sundogplanets I have exactly the same question.

    A country is supposed to have control over its airspace and overflights are only allowed by signed agreements or special permissions. In the same vein it should have control over its outer sky and only approved satellites should be allowed to pass through or "hover".

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  • Looking for explanations…Susan60@aus.social
    Apr 22, 2026, 2:43 AM

    @sundogplanets

    So it’s just a completely uncontrolled experiment, with no ethics approval from anyone who really knows anything, & definitely no informed consent from all of the human participants.

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