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Prof. Sam Lawler

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116337015253122494

I very much appreciate the way they wrote this: "SpaceX, which recently reported two Starlink satellite failures that created new space debris, yesterday accused Amazon and its launch partner Arianespace of negligence that 'needlessly and significantly increases risk to other operational systems and inhabited spacecraft.'”

It's too bad that 2 giant evil companies hating each other does not result in anything cancelling out, and will probably just cause more problems...

ScottMGS 18h ago

@sundogplanets Playing chicken in space.

Jo - pièce de résistance 18h ago

@sundogplanets get off my lawn!

Frank Bennett 🇯🇵18h ago

@sundogplanets Pardon my French, but what a fucking mess.

@sundogplanets "Space orbit is for me to destroy, not for you"

Grumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱17h ago

@sundogplanets CAGE MATCH: MUSK VS BEZOS. FIGHT TO THE DEATH.

Conny Nasch 17h ago

@grumble209 @sundogplanets 😂 😱 🤣

D. G. Marshall 17h ago

Didn't SpaceX just tell the FCC that a million Starlink satellites in orbit wouldn't be a hazard?

Now they're claiming a smaller number of Amazon satellites would be a hazard?

Conny Nasch 17h ago

@davidtheeviloverlord @sundogplanets Yes, the same complete hypocrisy as is being shown in full view in the US. Rules and hazard are only for "the other side" 🤔 😂

@davidtheeviloverlord
Honstly the #Amazon/ #BlueOrigin vs #SpaceX thing probably probably cannot be overestimated in this: The current #FCC is completely ignorant to consumer needs like “working space infrastructure” (much more than previous incarnations), but when it’s Mega-Corp vs Mega-Corp is always when regulatory agencies really start acting. NGOs and civil society are often dismissed in the name of “the economy”, but when it’s the “the economy” against itself regulatory agencies have to start mediating or both sides will fail. Even in this political climate. Even with the #plutocracy. And they’re both close to the regime, so the FCC cannot just take sides it has to intervene here.

I expect great things from this.
@sundogplanets

Brandon 17h ago

@sundogplanets never have I wanted space lasers more than I do now

@brandonscript @sundogplanets ESA are currently working on that with OMLET (Orbit Maintenance via Laser MomEntum Transfer) a ground based laser to change the velocity of low orbit debris

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/02/Moving_space_debris_out_of_the_way_with_OMLET

Moving space debris out of the way with OMLET

Brandon 16h ago

@robchapman I like omlets @sundogplanets

@brandonscript @sundogplanets yeah, I was thinking when I watched the video... that'd work on a satellite, if you so wanted

David Revoy 13h ago

@robchapman @brandonscript @sundogplanets That's the most anticlimactic name I ever read for a powerful laser ray...

@davidrevoy @brandonscript @sundogplanets I am sure there is a 'you can't make an OMLET without breaking eggs' joke in this somewhere

@robchapman @davidrevoy @brandonscript @sundogplanets Beat me to it Rob. 🤣

@robchapman
Literal space lasers.

drgn_laser_end_hit

drgn_laser_start

@brandonscript @sundogplanets

@sundogplanets It's reminding me of this company that wants to go into space to dim the sun. If they'd aim at reflect orbital's space mirrors they could potentially cancel each other out.

https://mastodon.social/@newsletterTF/116338903367516510

ReallyCanadianFly 4h ago

@fembot @sundogplanets what could possibly go wrong?

@reallyflygreg @sundogplanets
:lol.sob:

@sundogplanets ...wenn #amazon und #spacex sich gegenseitig weltraumvermuellung vorwerfen... kannste dir auch nicht ausdenken.

ich geh' mal popcorn machen in der microwelle... 🍿

Ed Suominen 17h ago

@sundogplanets Things are pretty bleak in this tech dystopia when you find yourself rooting for the Kessler effect…

@edsuom
i’m actually kinda rooting for the #Kessler effect: If #Capitalism can no longer expand, it will die. There’s only Africa (and a bit of Asia) left...
@sundogplanets

roboberto 15h ago

@sundogplanets its funny how spaceX is stalling since musk turned russian

ĞÖKÜ👻👻™15h ago

@sundogplanets they are preparing for war from space

Lstn2urmama4 13h ago

@sundogplanets they both better admit it's a chain link fence with broken links and they are both to lazy to go fix them or are waiting for a lawsuit from each other 🙄🙄🙄

And to quote Steelers Wheel, "Here we are, stuck in the middle of them."

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦11h ago

@sundogplanets sigh, reading about this kind of techbros doing techbro shit in space stuff I am almost at a point where I would welcome Kessler syndrome with relief… Almost.

@sundogplanets Like "I was here first" 😫

Blessd are the Chessemakers 🌱9h ago

@sundogplanets safety concerns for thee, but not for me...

SunnJax 🌷🏳️‍🌈

@sundogplanets @arstechnica
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever…”

[Angry manchild 1] “You hurt my satellites!” 🛰️
[Angry manchild 2] “Well you’re blocking my rockets!” 🚀

“…lived there, on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” 🌎

(With apologies to Carl Sagan, on behalf of embarrassed and ashamed human beings everywhere…)

RealGene ☣️9h ago

@sundogplanets
They're about three months from intentionally crashing their stuff into each other.

@sundogplanets profits _and_ machismo incentivize a game of chicken with the stationkeeping fuel, now that they bring it up, don't they

ReallyCanadianFly 4h ago

@sundogplanets good thing capitalism is great at managing conflicts without the need for government regulatory bodies. 🙄