That people are accepting China's tightening of the noose in the name of COVID restrictions in FUCKING HONG KONG of all places proves that there is no end to the slippery slope of government control. Everyone there should know the whole pandemic was an excuse to stop the protests. But there's no tyranny that leftists won't endure and truly believe in. Pretty scary.
“In restaurants, on public transportation and in other closed spaces, avoid talking in a loud voice, especially when not wearing a mask, e.g. during meals.” Don’t speak in a loud voice? Who comes up with this nonsense?
This was a cultural norm in Japan before COVID though. Talking loudly on the train or an elevator annoys people. Don't annoy people.
But that will make them too unreliable for regular work at orbit, magnetic storms are not the rare thing at all.
The idea with Starlink sats being cheap is that he's just going to keep launching new sats constantly to replace the broken ones, forever. It keeps SpaceX funded and launch "cadence" high.
But yeah if we start seeing more downtime due to "magnetic storms", they'll have to rethink their redundancy model.
It really wouldn't be hard at all to take VLEO sats out of operation. This could be a test, but it's a hazardous environment to begin with. That's why the idea some people have that Starlink could provide Internet to firewalled countries like China is unrealistic. They have to play ball with the establishment.
It's difficult to simulate believable legs since people are only wearing headsets. Several VR multiplayer games are like that. VRChat has legs though, so play that if you want VR legs. Don't give Facebook any more attention than it needs. All these articles are ads for them.