Matthew DockreyOkay, I'm calling it. Musk is an agent of the Great Filter, sent here to trigger a Kessler Syndrome and trap us on this planet.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push
Jaime Robertson@attoparsec Since he claims to be an Iain Banks fan, though cleary missed the point, I’d say he’s an agent for Special Circumstances. The Culture has already decided we’re not ready for them.
Kingsley Bugarin PLY OAM 🇦🇺No, SC are the good guys.
When a planet is ruled over by vicious, exploitative, authoritarian scum like the arseholes who own and rule this one, they intervene to help the majority overthrow them.
They are the anti-CIA.
Musk is just a deeply stupid, evil Earth human with the reading comprehension of an edgy teen incel who failed upwards.
@kingsleybugarin @attoparsec I’d say it’s debatable that SC are the good guys, good intentions perhaps.
You’re too polite about Musk, who may be the sort of (semi)Useful Idiot SC might use to keep a civilization getting ahead of itself and causing trouble.
Maybe arrange for someone with big ideas to come along and screw things up enough to keep us planet bound for a few generations, and triggering a revolution among the masses who sweep away the oligarchs.
Wishful thinking.
You’re too polite about Musk, who may be the sort of (semi)Useful Idiot SC might use to keep a civilization getting ahead of itself and causing trouble.
Maybe arrange for someone with big ideas to come along and screw things up enough to keep us planet bound for a few generations, and triggering a revolution among the masses who sweep away the oligarchs.
Wishful thinking.