Eine Million SpaceX-Satelliten werden den Nachthimmel ruinieren
Eine Million SpaceX-Satelliten werden den Nachthimmel ruinieren
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What the need for one million satellites when they already plan for 40 thousand?
SpaceX isn’t going to be the only one doing it lol.
> AI satellites
No worries. This AI satellites are not going to ever work. You know, because of physics. The gigantic size of the heat dissipators (physics don’t care about Elmo’s feelings). The beyond enormous size of the solar panels needed.
I pity the poor souls that believe a single word the Ketamine Karen pronounces.
The rich have taken everything else from us, why not the night sky too?
Make them pay a high environmental tax and maybe the good old way of fiber optic cables will come back…
I don’t know by what right they think they are allowed to do this.
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can’t take the sky from me!
oh shit 🙁
And yet it will happen anyway
*are already ruining
Do you want a collision cascade to trap us in this fucking planet for the next century? Because that’s exactly how you trigger a collision cascade that will trap us in this fucking planet for the next century.
Billionaires own this world because we’re too pathetic to do a revolution behind our phones
Pretty much anything from the US is ruining everything. Tariffs, oil, war. They will fuck it up for everyone. Hope the eggs are cheap.
Looks like space is also being corrupted by capitalism.
Burn the land and boil the sea, you cant take the sky from me… o wait, hot damn, I guess I was wrong.
but at least we’ll have overly expensive internet everywhere
Well, yeah, but MONEY!!
Getting closer to wall-e every day. Fun!
Just another huge leap towards kessler syndrome
Elmo grew up watching the Terminator movies and said to himself, „Skynet… wow, that’s so cool !“
Yes but some people make money from this. Isn’t that more important?
So much light pollution in the big cities, they won’t notice, But us folks out here in rural USA, we notice because we can see the stars and the damn satellites.
What night sky? I live in South Wales not far from a factory. 30 yrs ago when I moved here on a moonless night you could clearly see the Milky Way. Over the years the factory has expanded. Every planning application waved though. Each expansion had bright external lighting (as the factory works 24/7). Four expansions later and what feels like a billion watts of external lighting and on a clear night you barely make out the major constellations let alone the Milky Way…on a cloudy night the sky is orange and reflects enough light you damn well don’t need street lighting. Progress eh?
Good thing we don’t have vision like exposures capture.
It’s ok. America doesn’t give a shit about anything but money. They own the world. They own space. It’s all their piggy bank.
These MFs really watch movies and stuff with dystopias and think „I could totally make that!“. Geez. Watch some damn Pokemon or something. I don’t want Blade Runner, I want to ride a dragon or a horse-sized armored wolf or something.
„AI Datacenters“ in orbit has got to be the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard of. It’s a perfect example of how Elon comes up with ideas that sounds really smart but are actually dumb as fuck when you think about it.
A typical NVidia [GB300 chip cabinet](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/gb300-nvl72/) contains 72x GPU’s @ 1,400 watts EACH meaning a total power consumption of about 100,000 watts. It’s the size of a refrigerator which is roughly equivalent to a StarLink satellite.
Current solar panels produce about 20 watts per sqft, so that would require about 5,000sqft of solar panels for just one cabinet worth of GPUs. That’s roughly the size of a football field’s inzone.
And that’s not even considering the heat issue, which you’d think isn’t a problem in space, but it really, really is. Cooling these cabinets on earth is trivial because we can use water or air to pull heat away and dissipate into the atmosphere. There is no atmosphere in space. Because there’s no air you basically have to rely on giant passive cooling radiators. For something like this they would be enormous, at least the size of the solar array, maybe even larger.
So yeah, it’s dumb. Each one of these would be at least half the size of the entire ISS.
I have a telescope and have stargazed for many years now. Years ago I’d very occasionally see a small star lazily drifting through the field of view, which is almost always a satellite. It’d only happen a few times a year. Enough to be a rare curiosity.
Now? These last few years especially I see a satellite or two pretty much every time I take the telescope out. I’ve really started to notice how much more junk we’ve been launching into orbit. A million more would make this so much worse than its already getting.
Already ruined if you live by a city