Mastodawn

René van Paassen 12h ago

Prof. Sam Lawler

I just proofread the American Astronomical Society response to SpaceX's response to AAS's petition to deny on SpaceX's million sat filing. It's a great document, but the fact that we need to say any of this (and spend volunteer time fighting SpaceX's highly paid lawyers) is completely infuriating.

I need to go outside now, really tough that I'm in a city and don't have a hay field available for easy rage-screaming.

Prof. Sam Lawler 18h ago

I had a fantastic bike ride to the recording studio, where I recorded a podcast and probably depressed everybody with the dangerous state of orbit and reentries (almost as good as a hayfield-rage-screaming session, I guess). Now time to try to debug my incredibly bad code for the *hilarious secret project* with @astrokiwi.bsky.social

(Wish me luck, I am pretty sure I am just getting worse and worse at coding over time)

Prof. Sam Lawler 14h ago

The calculation is definitely not peer-review ready, but it will be good enough for *hilarious secret project*!

Now time for an 8pm media interview about satellite pollution stuff. Which would be great, except that I have to run a fairly important Zoom meeting at 6am tomorrow (thank you very much, daylight savings time, for making this even shittier timing than it was originally).

Thank you so much for taking the time to post on here! You are amazing!

@sundogplanets you have programmers available to you, just ask!

Dan York 18h ago

@sundogplanets @astrokiwi.bsky.social When will the podcast be available?

Dirk Willrodt 15h ago

@sundogplanets @[email protected] you're not getting worse, you are getting better, which usually means one obtains better understanding of what bad code is and how much we write that is bad 😁

Random Canuck 🍁😷 💉 VE3ZDN 9h ago

@sundogplanets @astrokiwi.bsky.social Please post a link to the episode when it drops! I would love to listen to it.

Rupert V/22h ago

@sundogplanets You're in Christchurch, right ?
Go ahead and scream. No-one will take any notice.

teledyn 𓂀 21h ago

teledyn 𓂀 21h ago

Here's an old favourite
https://youtu.be/g_cwuRmjhsY?si=JaJDvG6Jt-8U92rQ

#screamingsongs

Yoko Ono - Why

YouTube

Conny Nasch 13h ago

@teledyn @sundogplanets thank you for the link 😏

Roy -- the dull one 21h ago

Maybe if you rage-scream a haka, it will seem quite ordinary in NZ.

Conny Nasch 13h ago

@oldclumsy_nowmad @sundogplanets 😁

Paul Barnfather 21h ago

Endless Screaming 21h ago

@clanger9 AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Dealiah 19h ago

@sundogplanets Sit in your car, turn the engine in and crank up the radio; works wonders.

Prof. Sam Lawler 19h ago

@Dealiah I don't have a car here! But good suggestion if I did have one :)

@sundogplanets Thank you for working on this.

Go ahead and scream. If anyone asks why, tell them. Maybe they will scream too.

ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘19h ago

@sundogplanets Maybe you can find a cushion or pillow to scream into? Or get into an empty elevator and scream there? So much enraging stuff happening right now

Roger Moore 18h ago

@sundogplanets
The absolute worst part is that orbiting AI data centers are a complete bullshit idea made up only to justify SpaceX buying xAI. It's just a cascading series of mistakes, where Musk uses one of his not immediately failing businesses to buy up one that's crashing to protect his undeserved reputation as a brilliant businessman. Now he has to put real money into a crackpot idea that will accomplish nothing but damage near-earth orbit and the night sky.

Isaac Ji Kuo 10h ago

@VATVSLPR @sundogplanets If I recall correctly, Musk was just copying Bezos, who talked up this (complete bullshit) idea of orbiting AI data centers as an idea for whatever the heck his late-to-the-party space boosters were going to do.

I mean, everyone who isn't a moron can see that space tourism is a bust. And it's hard to see there being a market for a second Starlink - not that the first one is a good idea. So what's supposed to be the market for Bezos's space rocket?

James Tweedie 14h ago

@sundogplanets
https://dair-community.social/@alex/116262086029818691

Alex Hanna (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video Musk thinks data centers in space wouldn’t need ANY maintenance. I loved @[email protected]'s response to this on our latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. Check out episode 73: "Data Centers in Space!?”. (with @emilymbender)

Distributed AI Research Community

Conny Nasch 13h ago

@MyricaGale @sundogplanets OMF! I have had to post this on my FB site as all my close friends are on that. They just have to realise how far from reality the US is sliding!

James Tweedie 4h ago

@connynasch @sundogplanets Great! It needs to be made known far and wide - it will affect everyone on the planet. And it's being hidden behind Donnie and Bibis Big Iranian Adventure.