Prof. Sam LawlerI really should not work on visualizations of the night sky with thousands of naked-eye visible stupid "AI data center" sun-synchronous satellites at the end of the day. This sucks.
I should note that there's no freaking way we'd ever get this many satellites into this tight of a set of orbits. We'd be in full Kessler Syndrome way before that. I'm just trying to highlight the absurdity of what these awful companies are asking for. (Now up to 4 separate filings for copycat "AI data center" megaconstellations. Fuck you, SpaceX, for starting all of this rampant waste and destruction.)
Valerie Roney@sundogplanets I've been thinking, in light of the IPOs this lot are all aiming for, if there is an investor audience for your advocacy and education.
If the securities community can understand this is just space-snake oil they're trying to sell, not anything realistic or feasible, that pull back of investor funds may be a more effective thwarting of harm than the FCC will ever manage.
@vlrny I agree this is avery good idea. Do you have any ideas how I would talk to them? I have absolutely no connections, and they don't seem very excited to listen to scientists about anything...
Johanna, CanCon varietyI don't know anyone directly, but as a grad student in a weird meandering nterdisciplinary program ... I've attended some events and learned a number of 'climate' academics are finance and insurance researchers with industry support, because they get more traction going for the bank accounts than the latest glaciology model on the Antarctic.
Have you got academic channels to fintech endowed chairs? Disaster Finance researchers? Who insures such schemes?
Insurance apparently has leverage where all the urban sustainability programming in the world does not, because if they refuse to insure homes when someone wants to build on a floodplain or eroding coast ...
the developer drops out.
Wonder if there's a parallel in space tech?