Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
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Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky
Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet
Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)
@badastro COLOSSAL waste of resources.
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Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky
Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet
Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)
@badastro STUPID. FUCKING. PLAN. ELON.
If anyone knows how to etch or tattoo these words directly onto his eyeballs, could you make it happen, please?
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@badastro I love my starlink and its a badly needed technology but there needs to be some limitations on constellation sizes and orbital paths.
@AvacadoAvenger @badastro it’s not a badly needed technology. What it is insane is that as a society we’ve made it cheaper to launch satellites to provide coverage rather than build 5G cellular capacity and/or fiber broadband…
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Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky
Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet
Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)
How realistic is his bluster?
A million satellites would require how many launches? How much material? How much precision hardware?
This, imho, is just another time the biggest bullshitter in the corporate space is bullshitting to drive hype and get access journos to mindlessly repeat what he makes come out of his mouth hole.
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@AvacadoAvenger @badastro it’s not a badly needed technology. What it is insane is that as a society we’ve made it cheaper to launch satellites to provide coverage rather than build 5G cellular capacity and/or fiber broadband…
@juandesant @badastro I'm going to argue with you that we need the ability to communicate on this planet. I live in a vast nation that has huge gaps in coverage that only a satellite constellation can address. We made nothing cheaper. Elon Musk did.
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Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky
Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet
Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)
@badastro Can we just send HIM into space? Maybe sit him in his space tesla...
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How realistic is his bluster?
A million satellites would require how many launches? How much material? How much precision hardware?
This, imho, is just another time the biggest bullshitter in the corporate space is bullshitting to drive hype and get access journos to mindlessly repeat what he makes come out of his mouth hole.
@Aphrodite @badastro
even as bullshit and bluster, it's a way to plow under regulation and just claim the whole space (which, in this case, *is* space) for arbitrary exploitation -
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky
Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet
Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)
@badastro Könnte auch eine Plan vom Rest der Galaxis sein, uns hier festzuhalten. Wir kommen dann einfach nicht mehr raus, weil keine Lücke mehr da.
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Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky
Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet
Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)
@badastro
There goes the neighborhood. -
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky
Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet
Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)
@badastro I frown to the idea that one man is going to do so much damage to our environment. Well, for sure these million satellites disappear to space ... but even if you can do it, it doesnt mean you should. We are ruining Earth as we speak so now he wants to shit all over cosmos as well.
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@badastro Can we just send HIM into space? Maybe sit him in his space tesla...
@alandvalonline @badastro I can chip in to this idea.
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Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky
Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet
Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)
@badastro So what will happen to those satellites after their service life expires?Will space debris form around the Earth?
