OH IT GETS BETTER "Some petitioners—primarily would-be competitors such as Amazon/Blue Origin and Viasat—advance
their standard anticompetitive tropes trying to fearmonger about orbital congestion, operational preclusion, and potential collision risk in opposing SpaceX’s application"
This would be hilarious if I wasn't also COMPLETELY TERRIFIED about orbital congestion and collision risks...
"If Amazon had employed even basic math, it would realize that SpaceX’s proposed system would inhabit only 0.005% of the 1.1 trillion cubic kilometers of space across the 500–2,000 km orbits"
YES BUT IT'S TRAVELLING THROUGH THAT SPACE AT 7KM PER SECOND AND YOU DON'T FUCKING KNOW HOW ORBITS WORK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Ok I need to take a break from reading this or I'm actually going to break something.
@sundogplanets no, encourage them to park their satellites close together to save space! One metre sounds like a nice round number, put them that far apart.
Kessler? Wasn't he in some cooking show?
@sundogplanets You may know all about this, but read this post:
@sundogplanets may I suggest breaking SpaceX?
@sundogplanets I want to apply that logic to other domains. For example cars ! "Cars only use a very small fraction of the troposphere volume, therefore congestion can't be real."
Mar 19, 2026, 3:32 PM@TofuTheSquirrel @sundogplanets If they weren't shouting with their fingers in their ears that would be a good analogy. Bullets are also good.
But they think they are in fifth grade debate and they just have to "have an argument that supports your statement," whether or not itholds up.
@sundogplanets
This is terrifying. Not only for the orbits, the upper atmosphere and astronomy, but in general. Because one can be certain that these people use the same tactics in many different topics. We just never hear about this, because nobody is yelling about it on Mastodon.
Mar 19, 2026, 7:59 AM@sundogplanets in a few month the sky is so full with satellites, that sunrays did not reach earth because the metal of the satellites block them. Seems to be a good Plan to stop Climate change..😂
@sundogplanets Given that planes only occupy a tiny tiny proportion of the atmosphere, we do not need to monitor them, right?
Elon Musk, while firing an AK47 into a crowded shopping mall, insisted "It's fine. If you'd done basic math you'd realise the bullets only take up 0.005% of the available space in there."
@sundogplanets I love a good spray. You are wonderful. Keep going. Thank you.
Mar 18, 2026, 10:55 PM@sundogplanets Thank you for doing this work!! It's so hard to create articulate, logical responses to infuriating nonsense. I really appreciate you powering through! Keep the rants coming if they help you! There are supportive strangers on the internet cheering you on 🥳 😡
@sundogplanets you fear monger! wait, fish monger!