Fun fact to keep you awake tonight: Just had a chat with an atmospheric chemist and the best comparison she could come up with for the pollution that would result from burning up 1 million "AI datacenter" satellites in Earth's atmosphere is a nuclear war.

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

@paul_ipv6 Oh god what a horrible term uugghhh I hate that we are talking about this

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@sundogplanets well that sure cheers me up

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@paul_ipv6 @sundogplanets

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets

talking about it in terms like this is how we'll get the press and public more aware. hopefully before it's too late.

[paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org]

@sundogplanets

"Fun" fact.

[ranx@mastodon.social]

@sundogplanets hopefully I'll be dead already ️

[fennix@infosec.space]

@sundogplanets

You lied, this was not fun at all!

[alzimon@mastodon.nl]

@sundogplanets Wouldn't *launching* that many of them have even more atmospheric impact??? (btw I had written off "AI datacenter satellites" as a really bad joke and ignored them, but I see more and more serious people like yourself worrying over them. This in itself wil keep me awake. I'll read up tomorrow.)

[derickr@phpc.social]

@sundogplanets @paul_ipv6 I really don't believe this stupid plan is ever going to happen.

Even if they can launch 1000 sats a week, it'll take 20 years (if none fall down). And that's not even taking into consideration the resources needed to build them.

It's more Elon bluster, and just a way for him to get money out of gullible investors. Think Theranos.

There is (unfortunately) plenty of credible schemes to fight.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@sundogplanets sounds like a true musk legacy

[michaelc@scholar.social]

@sundogplanets Gotta say... that fact wasn't all that fun.

[michael_w_busch@mastodon.online]

@paul_ipv6 @sundogplanets

That is not what that phrase is supposed to mean.

[sophie@hub.somaton.com]

@Prof. Sam Lawler this is freaking grotesque!