Post by @drunkenmadman@aus.social

2026-02-10 04:19 UTC

@RichardNairn@mstdn.ca @jodmentum@apobangpo.space I suspect part of the attraction for these lunatics is that space is “out of the reach of regulation”. Laying aside that it literally isn’t… why d’you reckon they find that idea attractive?

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online 2026-02-10 07:00

@drunkenmadman@aus.social @RichardNairn@mstdn.ca @jodmentum@apobangpo.space It's not, though. Sure, you can't physically raid a satellite in orbit, but you _can_ raid the ground station and subpoena any encryption keys required. Satellites in space are no more outside of national jurisdiction than ships on the high seas are. Musk has a history of ever increasingly harebrained schemes -- any pie-in-the-sky dream he can sell to investors with the promise of unccountable riches at the ens of the rainbow. It's one of those.

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@shadows@beige.party 2026-02-10 08:04

@drunkenmadman@aus.social @RichardNairn@mstdn.ca @jodmentum@apobangpo.space it all makes me imagine some dystopian movie where they put data centers in space to house AI that controls drones that control the population. So the population can’t get sick of it and burn the data centers.

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