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In a late Friday FCC filing, the company mentions deploying a staggering 'one million satellites' in orbits ranging from 500 kilometers to 2,000km.

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 weeks ago

No no no stop letting this junkie fuck everything up

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 weeks ago

Dyson sphere is supposed to go around the SUN not the Earth. FAIL.

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Surely this will never pan out as every other one of Musk’s promises?

I genuinely don’t understand how they believe a data center in space is a good idea.

[–] troed@fedia.io 18 points 2 weeks ago

... esp. since they'll need to run at extremely low speeds due to the difficulty in cooling them.

I'm starting to think Musk doesn't understand that "space is cold" won't help here.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Just curious, why wouldn't it be a good idea?

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Literally the only thing that works for this idea is solar energy and half the RTT because there is no need to route both up from the earth and back down. You can't maintain that, its hard to cool, its expensive to send up there, radiation not good for computers and on and on.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Fair enough

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 9 points 2 weeks ago

"I'm just going to the datacenter to replace a hard drive"

[–] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Kessler syndrome

[–] bisby@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

https://youtu.be/d-YcVLq98Ew

Basically there aren't a lot of upsides and plenty of downsides

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

they have been doing it for a while. its probably some stock market scam to make themselves look more valuable.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Right next to the one million robotaxis and autonomous robots, I presume.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They can ship em on Tesla semis running through TBC tunnels.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

I totally forgot about those! Just let me hop into my new roadster and drive to the hyperloop station to get to the Starship launch-pad in New York.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Shooting rockets into space now means they have to negotiate a maze of a million satellites along with all the other space junk out there.

We are creating a cage from which we will never leave earth.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Space junk debris field

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Some day in the future some space-archeologist will wonder who the fuck left all that junk out there.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

Muskrat is clearly an alien sent to Earth to ensure our doom.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who wants this again? Why are we polluting the atmosphere even more again?

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

The owner of SpaceX needs income, so it's time to try something new to dupe idiots out of their money.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe a giant one in geosync could work?

[–] tangeli@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

How, when and where will all these satellites come back down?