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FCC approves giant space mirror as astronomers warn of risks to the night sky
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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2026
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Why the fuck is every dystopian industrialist naming their shit after Tolkein? Does an artificial moon designed to fuck the natural order sound like something he would want to endorse?
Like many other things today, Peter's fault
They don't have the literacy / abstract thinking necessary to understand themes and like the 'vibes' of nerdy things being cool now.
These corporate jerks see themselves as Aragorn but in reality they're Wormtongue
Elon likely never read Foundation, and it's frustrating that he's getting credit for it.
I do firmly put that on the people not doing their research, though. We should absolutely be bullying the shit out of people for being disingenuous in this way.
If I recall he was pretty anti fascist