Fun fact to keep you awake tonight: Just had a chat with an atmospheric chemist and the best comparison she could come up with for the pollution that would result from burning up 1 million "AI datacenter" satellites in Earth's atmosphere is a nuclear war.
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@peterjriley2024 I am a co-author on that...
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Well, they are rockets so that makes sense.
Is the primary concern with nuclear pollution not the radioactive contaminants? Do satellites acquired induced radioactivity over their useful life on top of that?
@lispi314 This is purely looking at soot and particulates/aerosols, not radioactivity
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Fun fact to keep you awake tonight: Just had a chat with an atmospheric chemist and the best comparison she could come up with for the pollution that would result from burning up 1 million "AI datacenter" satellites in Earth's atmosphere is a nuclear war.
@sundogplanets Had a recent chat with someone I know who knows a fair bit about this stuff. Their main points - "one of the dumbest ideas the AI bros have ever come up with," and that cooling these things would present huge challenges due to there being no conduction in the vacuum of space. "Heat budgeting is one of the most difficult parts of spacecraft design." Truly stupid times we live in.
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Fun fact to keep you awake tonight: Just had a chat with an atmospheric chemist and the best comparison she could come up with for the pollution that would result from burning up 1 million "AI datacenter" satellites in Earth's atmosphere is a nuclear war.
@sundogplanets wait! Wait!
Is this secretly a geo-engineering plan to reduce global temperatures by Stratospheric Aerosol Injection?!
Have we all been horribly wrong about Elon all this time?
/s
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sadly, "fix" in the veterinary sense of the word...
@paul_ipv6 @n_dimension @sundogplanets
Or, put it to rest. 🥴
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Fun fact to keep you awake tonight: Just had a chat with an atmospheric chemist and the best comparison she could come up with for the pollution that would result from burning up 1 million "AI datacenter" satellites in Earth's atmosphere is a nuclear war.
@sundogplanets what happens, when they stay at a Lagrange point and are dumped on the moon at the end of their lifetime? Would the created dust cause problems?
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Fun fact to keep you awake tonight: Just had a chat with an atmospheric chemist and the best comparison she could come up with for the pollution that would result from burning up 1 million "AI datacenter" satellites in Earth's atmosphere is a nuclear war.
@sundogplanets well, that’s comforting…
…horrifying…I meant to say horrifying!
WTAF are they thinking?!
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talking about it in terms like this is how we'll get the press and public more aware. hopefully before it's too late.
@paul_ipv6 @sundogplanets It doesn't work with global warming. Why should it work this time?
That's why scientists drink.
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@paul_ipv6 @n_dimension @sundogplanets
Or, put it to rest. 🥴
@Edelruth @paul_ipv6 @n_dimension @sundogplanets Like... a 9mm infantry first aid kit.
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Fun fact to keep you awake tonight: Just had a chat with an atmospheric chemist and the best comparison she could come up with for the pollution that would result from burning up 1 million "AI datacenter" satellites in Earth's atmosphere is a nuclear war.
@sundogplanets I'm remembering an interview I did in the early days of what became Starlink. I asked what problems they would expect with a 1000 satellite constellation, then 10,000, then 100,000. At 1 million, they said "it's an artificial crust at that point"
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