Prof. Sam LawlerMar 17

SpaceX's highly paid lawyers responded to the hundreds of comments and oppositions submitted to the FCC in one letter, that basically shows they didn't actually read our petitions to deny. And now we astronomers and dark sky advocates who are volunteering our time have to do a shitload more work to respond to their non-response. By Friday.

Fuck you, SpaceX.

Show threadProf. Sam LawlerMar 17
I am feeling seriously depressed about this, and also Reflect Orbital's no doubt similarly infuriating response that's due in a couple of days. I'm not sure what I expected, I guess I'm just not cynical enough to deal with current reality yet. Kessler Syndrome, here we come!!
Show threadpandabutterMar 17
@sundogplanets Kessler Syndrome now features in a near-future dystopian setting that I'm working on, though we don't really see how it impacts the world as a whole—in this setting, the collapse of the United States into smaller confederations has disrupted the availability of broadband, especially since at least one of the Big 4 telecom companies has completely fallen apart. So the internet exists, but people in this region can no longer reach it.
Show threadProf. Sam Lawler
@pandabutter I would read this book!
Mar 17 at 7:53pmWeb
Show threadpandabutterMar 17
@sundogplanets I *really* want to write it. The idea of a localized dystopia, and the characters within being unable to know how the rest of the world is getting on—but distantly aware of the possibility that life in other places is still pretty normal, and the world has mostly kept on ticking? That grabs me.
Show threadShadSterlingMar 17
@pandabutter @sundogplanets bookmarking with the hope that someday I’ll go through my bookmarks and find it has been written