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Elon Musk is creating the Manhattan project of today. He is working with the globohomos....and Essentially building the Prison of the future.
He is not smart. In fact he is really dumb. He says stupid things....and never says anything smart....
People assume because he says 'snappy things' that he must be smart....because his PR people told him...
I have not heard him ever say an intelligent thing which is original....please. someone prove me wrong. An original Elon thought....do they exist?
Seriously why prop up $80k cars that are tim cans basically the same as $50k toyatas? Why prop up starlink? His stuff is cool but it's not $2T market cap cool imo
Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vuMzGhc1cg
Must watch. Has a lot of other arguments.
Starlink will be far superior in both latency and bandwidth than the currently available options. It's a worthy project to create a global wireless internet network. Like all technologies, it will be used for both good and evil. If Musk didn't do this, someone else would... he just had the best access to the cheapest rockets so it makes sense he got it done first.
No someone wouldnt. Because no one else is receiving subsidies from governments and generating hype without delivering on promises. Not mentioning the environmental impact and space impact of those satellite launchings.
No....no...no ..
Do you have Credentials other than twitter user???
Show me yours and I'll show you mine.
Explain why starlink will be better? You get possibly (if it even goes off well) a fraction of a difference in latecy (there is a limit...)......if....for what cost? Rediculous expense; Space Garbage; Increased Complexity of collisions and possible fallout effects; proprietary system with no way to debug it yourself; Monopolistic end goal; Possible human rights violations on the global scale; A new technocratic boundary that physically separated the haves from the have nots through a subscription model;
Then....
How about when someone else decides to compete.....?
I don't see a reason, perhaps you can enlighten me.
I don't know if this is the right forum for this, but here goes nothing...
30ms latency anywhere on Earth is comparable to traditional cable internet, which is impressive for satellite communication. Ever listen to two people trying to talk via satellite and there's a 1-2 second delay? The limit is the speed of light traveling over distances. Starlink satellites solve this by having orbits very close to the earth - it's a big difference compared to latency in the 250-300ms range.
I don't know about you, but cable internet already costs about $80/month in my area and the price keeps going up (along with faster speeds as they upgrade the cable network). Starlink is comparable price without having to run wire - so you could get service out on the farm, or anywhere remote.
This is true, but I think it has been exaggerated a bit. Space, even at Low Earth Orbit, is pretty big. All of the objects large enough to be a problem are tracked and have a known trajectory. Starlink satellites are designed to deorbit automatically after about 5 years and break up during re-entry, so if the project does go out of business the problem of space junk will solve itself.
I haven't looked into this. Are you talking about the dish/antenna? I suppose it has to be proprietary or else people would be able to use the service without paying. A system this expensive couldn't be free.
I don't see how it's monopolistic. If anything it's the opposite, since it is offering an alternative to the cable companies who have a strangle hold on the ISP business with the help of government stifling competition.
I agree this could be a problem with tracking, but no more of a risk than a regular connection to the internet. Most people carry a sophisticated tracking device in their pocket already.
I'm not aware of any ISP that doesn't use a subscription model. I don't see what the objection is here. Perhaps you could elaborate on this one.
I don't see a problem with this. Just like we had Sirrius and XM satellite radio competing. Competition is a good thing.
ISPs are not monopolies. They are independent and by design can setup your own subnet and just not connect to anyone else....not so with starlink so monopoly.
Viasat and Hughesnet require you to be experienced with installing the dish. So you will be needing a guy to come and install the whole setup and he will need to return when a storm hit and the dish moved a tad bit. He won't be doing that for free
for viasat that $70 gets you 12megabit/s and a whopping 40GB of data.
Yeah it doesn't make financial sense, Musk sells hot air and the last couple of years he's managed to direct all that hot air in to a couple of projects that will never make a buck when that time comes he'll be long gone.
Meanwhile you get fast internet in butt fuck nowhere where homesteading is affordable because land is cheap.
And no the military isn't going to use a publicly accessible network to control drones, it's far more likely half the starlink satellites are military use only using different bands.
I can't argue with that. I just read the news and it said, "Starlink satellites used to control Ukrainian drones"
space is fake and gay