• bitwolf@sh.itjust.works
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    How about no

    How about we take down every starlink satellite so NASA can operate unabated, and our telescopes aren’t interfered with.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    American taxpayers paid for both Starlink and Space X. Overpaid, actually, that’s why he’s the richest man in the world. None of his businesses are profitable, he just skims hundreds of billions off the enormous government grants he gets.

    Since we overpaid for that tech, we should just confiscate it from him. He can be thankful that he doesn’t go to prison for misappropriating government funds.

    He can keep Tesla. It’ll be bankrupt in 2 years anyway.

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    Company says that everyone should give them money and stop using competing products.

    Obvious thing to say in the land of self-interest.

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    “Oligarch mouthpiece demands diverting of major public funds to oligarchs instead”

    Story of America, really.

  • uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club
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    Remember how Elon Musk conned Vegas out of millions with the hyperloop.

    Satellite internet is not the future; it’s cell internet.

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      Conned them and then Nashville, I think it is, is also paying him for it. True stupid, the US isn’t a country of learners, it seems.

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        We already have physical lines.

        Businesses and governments aren’t going to invest in digging and laying down more cables to give people in rural America access to fiber. They’re already reluctant to do it for major cities.

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          They actually have invested multiple times. Problem is the companies they give the money to just pocket it and don’t update their infrastructure. Give this money to the local community or coop owned fiber operators. Stop giving money to these huge corps that don’t need it and fund the small coop and community run fiber operators.

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    Wireless data transmission should only ever be used for nomadic, temporary, and/or sacrificial links.

    They’re useful for quick deployment, but are intrinsically brittle and terrible for resiliency and efficiency.

    The longer the dependence on them for a given use case, the less defensible arguments in support of them become.

    I’m all for the use of satellite delivery of internet services, but only when it’s used in conjunction with a broader roll out of hardwired infrastructure, at which point it can reasonably be relegated to serving as a secondary, backup diverse path.

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      Cory Doctorow described it as anti-futuristic tech. Where fiber networks get better, faster, and cheaper the denser they get, wireless satellite will get slower and less reliable the more people share that spectrum.

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    No fucking thanks. Gigabit+ fiber > Nazi-ass satellite internet that doesn’t have even remotely near the needed bandwidth for actual dense population centers.

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    You cannot actually serve hundreds of millions in the US even if you invested the 75B it would cost to give every household a satellite it just can’t support the bandwidth.