• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m so glad other countries are coming up with their own satellites just for the expressed interest to boycott musk.

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      1 day ago

      No, please no

      We don’t need thousands of satellites to provide internet, the entire idea and design of Starlink is utterly stupid.

      I can look up at the sky not and see stars and… Those fucking star link satellites.

      We’re already close enough to a Kessler effect scenario without adding thousands of satellites, and with governments world wide now ready to just shoot satellites (seriously, can everyone please stop voting for dumb fucks while we’re at it?) can we please PLEASE stop this?

      Just use fiber internet or where not possible, use geostationary satellites. We don’t need semi low latency everywhere

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        1 day ago

        There are areas of the planet where there is no signal or fibre. Clearly as you and I are capable of posting on an online social; you and I are not in one of these dead spots but they do exist. And some of these areas have to exist in order to provide sustainable lifestyle for the other more built up areas (farmland gets left in the dark much of the time)

        Just something to think about before you run around running your mouth talking down with privilege of where you’re speaking about it.

        And before you even utter the phrase ‘they should…’ or ‘someone should’

        No. Stop. You first. you’re someone. You up end your life and go live there and fix it ‘sustainably’ and bump into all the problems with your online solutions and work it out and fix it before you talk about what everyone else should be doing in areas and lifestyles you don’t care to exist in enough to empathize or understand yet still benefit from.

        And why is it only a problem with OTHER COUNTRIES do it while you sit there mute as musk does it?? So it’s all ok that he does it under the name of capitalism but should any other country act in their own agency you suddenly get all crunchy about it?

        No. Absolutely not buying this ‘ok for me but not ok for thee’ bull rap.

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          4 hours ago

          If they have electricity, than fiber is practical. For the tiny few that don’t, fine. But even then, for the billions invested in launching these satellite clusters, it just might be cheaper to build a handful of crazy long terrestrial microwave links.

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          23 hours ago

          There are areas of the planet where there is no signal or fibre.

          So, we should take the billions per train launch, and install microwave backhauls and cellular service to cover those dead zones.

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          1 day ago

          Why? That won’t accomplish much.

          I just want people to know we are Fucked. This stupid fucking satellite Internet race is going to destroy Earth’s orbital infrastructure.

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            1 day ago

            Oh hell no. Fuck off with this won’t stand up to the bully but will stand on everyone else you think you can bully bullshit.

            You are being the exact reason we are fucked.

            Coward.

            • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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              1 day ago

              We have to stand up together, there’s literally nothing I can do by myself. That’s why I need to let people know, so they stand with me.

              I’m sorry if you feel like you’re being bullied.