It’s Musk’s fault for invoking the dreaded “triple dog dare”.
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That is too funny. Thanks to YouTube, I just watched John Oliver do his last show of the season and the topic was Elon.
John Oliver is one of the most brilliant people on the planet and he does such an excellent job of “explaining” Elon. Seriously smart and so funny. Worth a watch for anyone with 30 minutes to spare.
I watched that too!
I learned Musk is in control of HALF of all satellites in orbit and why that is worrisome.
Specifically they are Starlink satellites, not just random satellites. It’s just that Starlink is composed of a lot of satellites.
They’re relatively small in size, about the size of a large dinner table. They weigh 260 kg or about 575 lb each. There are about 5,500 of them in orbit now. The plan is to deploy 12,000 of them, and perhaps expand the number to 42,000 eventually.
If they weren’t so small I’d be more concerned. If they all fell to Earth, given their small size they’d burn up long before hitting the ground.
If the concern is that he could use them for nefarious means, in all honesty I’m more worried about all the money in the hands of an insane drugged-up manchild and the power that gives than just his space internet.
OK, as long as people are worried. I just thought the fact was eye-catching
The danger of so many satellites isn’t to the ground, it’s that if they lose control of a couple of them they could go banging around into other things in orbit and create debris which leads to a cascade effect and destroys a lot of other orbiting equipment, resulting in a huge gap in our modern reliance on quick and easy communication and information transfer.
But I’m sure the technology is rock-solid. I mean, it’s not like the cars he makes just randomly decide to catch fire or crash themselves into tractor-trailers.
That’s already a lost cause.
Well, I don’t know if you’ve been closely reading this thread, but there’s no existing problem which Musk can’t make vastly worse through hubris and stupidity. 
True.
My understanding is that the starlink satellites orbit at a much lower altitude than everything else. Meaning the risk to GPS satellites and whatnot is minimal, though of course not zero.
There’s been some speculation in this thread about when mass media would begin to refer to X as just “X”, not as “X (formerly known as Twitter)”.
It’s starting:
Before that article, I had once seen a reference to “media platform X,” without any reference to Twitter. But that’s a first for just plain X.
His maturity level really does seem to hover around the region of “15-year-old entitled white boy.”
Concerning.
I for one am shocked - shocked, I tell you! - that Elmo would imply that women aren’t people.
Would it kill you to just link the original article rather than forcing us to give Twitter more clicks?
The link’s right there in the preview.
Just for the record, the onebox doesn’t always load, and depending on the screen, may not include the link. So, please and thank you.