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...
Deborah Preuss, pcc@sundogplanets if you can make a post asking this question clearly, I'll boost it!