Comment on FCC Fast-Tracks SpaceX's Plan for 1M Satellites. And It Wants Your Thoughts

• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I said take me to the moon I never meant take me alone

  I thought if mankind toured the sky it meant that all of us could go

  But I don’t want to see the stars if they’re just one more piece of land

  For us to colonize, for us to turn to sand

  • Penelope Scott, Rät

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• SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is more fiction than science. Elon has all the ideas a 12yr would think are cool.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You nailed it too, this is to keep the technological worshippers at his feet, to pump his companies despite their valutations being higher than their stocks could ever justify.

    This is the biggest, most successful confidence game in the world. He is playing everyone, just like he did with the robots in every house, in self driving cars, in AI taking all the jobs, etc.

    They are not anywhere near making this a reality, and the society they’ve created will fall apart to negate this before it’s complete if someone doesn’t stop them elsewhere.

    Although if all the data servers were in low orbit, it would make it a lot easier to destroy them all when we get a sensible government that convicts these people of corruptly seizing all data without true consent or cause and using it for nefarious purposes. A little target practice for new laser type weapons.

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