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I see it as a win-win.
Either Elom and his fellow dipshits waste a ton of cash chasing literal pie in the sky,
Or
A viable commercial presence in space is validated and terrestrial power needs eased.
/S
Can you all not even tell this or sarcasm?
Nah, you're not jaded enough yet, it'll be used to facilitate a wealth transfer. Huge wealth management firms will tie up venture capital in financing SpaceX and BO and smaller space construction firms in a boondoggle and when it fails to materialize a profit they will pocket the proceeds and the losses will be covered by taxes and retirement accounts.
They do this again and again. It's the kleptocracy playbook, they're just getting bigger and bolder and more in your face with it.
My bad. Edited.
Looool gotcha, assume half the people on Lemmy reading your comment are half asleep, either just waking up or going to bed.
Except when they put up about 70x new satellites then what we currently have up there, and cause a cascade of collisions that results in nothing being able to enter orbit (including humans travelling to space).
We're at 14k satellites.
100k is the cascade failure limit.
Space X is proposing one million satellites.
Edit: my "70x" figure is very fuzzy just-woke-up early morning math. No guarantees.
Edit 2: dang! One million divided by 14k is 71.428! I almost nailed it.
No, you don't get it. (Good job on the math though, btw)
Every AI gets to have one, huge Moonraker sized LLM space station. Grok Station 1, Gemini Geosynchronous, Claude Comet. Whatever. But all eggs in one huge solar-powered basket each.
Staffed by 1 or 2 humans each. Required. By law. Armed people. Because, of course they should have guns in space.
Then just see what happens. I bet it would be amazing.
Ok, I see your /s tag now. And no, it was not clear that you're being sarcastic, because I can't see your face or hear your voice. It's the reason Poe's law is a thing.
Better pitch: just put tons of people in the space station and they can type the "AI" responses!