CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@sundogplanets @mastodonmigration Yes. And it will likely not become a monopoly. Two competitors in the US, one in the EU, one in China, one in India, and it’s down to 2/min. To replace these, they would need a dozen or so launches per day, adding to the looming environmental disaster

@sundogplanets @mastodonmigration Now imagine having a million data centers in orbit, from musk alone. Before long, every few seconds a satellite will come down – with all its payload burning into the atmosphere

@bert_hubert @marleenstikker I bet you’ll have no problem thinking of 6 others. Pfas eggs, poisonous bouquets, cancerous herbicides, steel slags, toxic fruits, heavily polluted ditches, overuse of fertilizers. Rationally, this cannot go on, yet it still gets worse every year