When the war was turning in Ukraine's favor and they were about to push into Russia, he shut it off and crippled their counter offensive. I remember. Fuck Elon and fuck starlink.
IIRC that was long after that. The initial shutoff of Starlink happened around the explosions targeting the Crimean bridge and them introducing their naval drones.
Which is why Starlink needs to be confiscated and managed by NATO. Somebody has to operate it, and it should be an entity who is on the side of Freedom amd Democracy.
Lol I forgot about that! Yeah fuck em both of course, but I feel like most folks would put their money on the ex-KGB agent who seized and kept control of freakin' Russia over nepo-baby "gamer", "engineer" Musk. What a goofy threat. And I say that as a middling gamer and engineer myself lol
I thought you were gonna say "full head of transplanted hair," but I was disappointed. I've seen tiny guys take on bigger dudes when they have more skill. The age thing is more what I might think of as an advantage for that doughy chud.
I don’t respect Putin very much, but I am 1000 percent sure that a former KGB agent will whoop Musks ass. Apart from that, wtf is he trying to show with challenging Putin to physical combat. What does that have to do with Ukraine?
Don't let the fascists fool you, there are alternatives to Starlink. Eutelsat in France, Telesat in Canada and Inmarsat in the UK, just to name a few examples.
Technically, and this is purely semantics, coverage is the major downside to starlink. They are faster, though.
The coverage of satellites has an exponential factor of the distance of that satellite to earth. If you had the satellite further out then its signal could reach a wider area before being cut off by the curvature of the earth. However, as the distance increases, so does latency.
Now, I don't know, but I would assume its the latency. Starlink has a (impressively) low ping of < 100ms, while existing alternatives usually have 600ms+. Now, that's only relevant if they are using it for stuff like flying drones.
Nah, Elon thinks it's elegant. As in "Ha ha, I spoke like a big boy. I heard that badass line on TV once, on one of those shows I'm not supposed to watch. Bet that guy is now red on face and is so distraught he won't be able to eat broccoli on supper and his mom will yell at him. Owned."
"Be quiet, small man" sounds like a thing Dennis would scream at Mac in IASIP 😄 THE GOLDEN GOD! Dude is copying a comically psycho character from a show, thinking he's being sooo cool 😎
Except for the fact that he doesn't make anything, he pays people who do, then takes the credit for it. Is his way with everything: companies, gaming profiles...
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He makes ambigious statements (I read the linke nitter link).
Eutelsat OneWeb is available now. If it is robust against russian jamming needs to be seen.
Iris2 won't be available before end 2030s or so. But there is another European goverment constellation they mentioned.
It is real and my biggest concern right now is that European politicians seem so quiet about this. This conversation, including Rubio's comment, is scandalous.
I got IP banned on Reddit for saying that someone who pushed a woman on a bike over and made her fall, should be pushed instead. Big violence on my part lmfao
We'll probably have to figure that one out but we largely let the Mods set the tone in communities and, as this is a friendly, helpful community, I wouldn't bet on that post remaining.
It's quite an interesting insight into what kind of thing Musk himself feels is a great insult (hence he is susceptible to it) as well as how much Musk thinks his opinion counts for people such as the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, all of which dovetails with the idea that the guy suffers from both Megalomania and Narcisistic Personality Disorder.
For any reasonably well adjusted person in a position of responsability such as being the Foreign Minister of a country the size of Poland (or, frankly, for anybody self-aware and self-confident), being called "small man" by somebody like Elon Musk is roughly the equivalent in importance to being barked at by a dog that cannot actually harm you.
Disgusting. Why the FUCK would you talk to our allies this way? The guy is a polish government official.. (I mean obviously I know why, Elon is a megalomaniac).
More competition will ensure the oligarchs to behave.
I don't trust the EU tech owners, but I recognize that they are at an disadvantage to the US counterpart (and nationalism is a useful tool to sell their product) so they won't be making overt moves to dismantle European democracy.
It’s really really really not up to trust! Imagine if bec of eu oligarchs thousands of folks died because said oligarchs refused to pay for peoples healthcare!
The one remaining guillotine in France would go around!
So there really is one still in existence? So, like, if a prototype were needed ( just hypothetically speaking, of course), to build more, that could be done?
It's called One Web by Eutelsat. Same latency and reliability, but less Mb/s about 70 Mb/s (and does it matter much for the few Kb packets to relay small amounts of data?).
Eutelsat has about 9% the number of satellites and Starlink is expanding fast. This significantly limits the potential backhaul, which is why Eutelsat doesn't really focus on consumers, but rather governments and enterprise. They don't have the backhaul to offer wide consumer products. Their cost of launch is 10x higher than Starlink, at least, so they'll never be able to compete in backhaul or the consumer space. Of course they could contract SpaceX to launch their satellites, but then they're basically paying the competition to operate, and this power imbalance would be immediately leveraged to their detriment.
The bottom line here is that competitors need reusable rockets, and no one else is even close. However Musk put together the company and strategy pushed space transport forward by decades in a very short space of time, and it's unlikely another Musk figure emerges in Europe. I do not subscribe to the common notion that if we throw enough money at the problem we can solve it. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin confirms this. It appears to require an appetite for extreme risk; the will to blow up hundreds of expensive rockets; and likely a penchant for the disregard of existing safety laws. The EU would never permit this.
Its a tricky balance, on one hand the US system has createst the most profitable and capable companies on earth, on the other hand its also created the most powerful and regulation capturing companies on earth.
I don't really believe in the financial aspects of reusable rockets, but I tend to believe in the financial aspects if an air force gives you free launch sites then a US state gives you public land to use as you wish without any supervision.
Using taxes to pay for something and call it cheap, as shameful with spaceX as it is for EU healthcare (except in one case it benefits one company, in the other whole nations).
I'm not really sure I understand what you're arguing here. That reusable rockets are easy to build as long as the government gives one some land to use? If that were true we would have had reusable rockets many decades ago.
That's weird: Musk and Trump are doing exactly what one would if they were Russian assets, bent on destroying western alliances... You don't have to believe all the evidence that they are... Just imagine that these 2 billionaires are compromised. What would they do at this exact moment in history...?
It starts in the middle. It's smaller and indented because it's then being quoted by the Polish minister on top. Then Elon, fuckwit that he is, responds at the bottom.
It was never meant to be used like this, and Twitter just never changed it out of pure stubborn bullshit
The original idea is that you'd retweet something, say something like "check out this bullshit" and then read the re-tweet, but people regularly use it as a reply feature that boosts to their audience instead and so this UI insanity happens
There's so many places where strategically important resources have been delegated wholesale to the US. Now, concerning mankind, it's theoretically better, of course, to not overdo it with wasteful redundancies. But, unfortunately, we're not talking about some kind of UN-controlled infrastructure, which is maintained and used internationally. Unfortunately, it's controlled by people like this, and that is now coming home to roost.
I mean with the right President there would be reason to take it under the Defense Production Act or civil forfeiture. But Democrats will surely squeal, "our hands out tied" until the next Republican gets elected.
This post was the final straw for me. I deleted all my accounts on non crucial US based services yesterday when I first saw it. I was already angry with what is going on but it was a shallow meme boycott consisting of only drinking kofola now instead of coca cola. It got serious yesterday. Unfortunately I still need to think about the strategy to quit Google since pretty much everything I do is connected to my Gmail.
If you put random political reason unrelated to the app/service, they can remove it. So be extremely critical about their app and services only, have some high standards in what you expect from such services for the free usage data they "steal" from you.
Not fast enough in Copenhagen. Teslas have become so numerous that within 500 metres i counted 25 Teslas parked or driving around. And that was just 1 street.
Copenhagen is saturated with clean, perfectly un-vandalised Teslas...
No, we're apparently letting a South African man, who is/was an illegal immigrant in the US, and who's maternal side of the family fled from Canada because his grandfather was a Nazi and was trying to drum up support to make Canada a Techno-feudalistic oligarchy, do those things.
I have been boycotting X for years now. I think we should all ignore that ignoramus as much as possible, and boycott his companies. Let's focus on making #Europe stronger and more independent.
Hey, rest of the Democratic world, there are a whole bunch of ex feds right now needing funds and direction for their anger. Maybe you should tap into them if you need someone to rid you of this meddlesome Chancellor.
What I meant is, they will be prevented from going bankrupt either way – whether the money hole gets filled by a massive contract or closed by Putin's no-fly request.
As much as I hate Elmo, you can fold Starlink terminal flat and put in a backpack and it weights around 6 kilogram and costs around $500, Eutelsat „portable” OW70L is fucking chonky dome that weights 30 kilos, costs $2000 and needs to be transported in a car. They need to seriously up their game, and do it fast.
Starlink flies at a very low altitude, meaning relatively high atmospheric drag, and a very short period of time before their sats deorbit if they go dead, less than ten years.
It's nowhere near the problem everyone makes it out to be.
I remember a comment on Reddit from someone claiming to belong to Musk's PR team that said they worked incredibly hard to cultivate his image. But they had just been fired as Musk was tired of being controlled, and kept from doing and saying crazy things. This person said the world would soon see just how much of a. all-around monster Musk really was. I didn't believe them at all at the time, Musk was a genius who was going to save humanity! It really makes me wonder about the actual person behind most of these figures and celebrities.
I can actually pinpoint the exact moment I became disillusioned with Elon Musk. It was back in like 2014 or 2015. I also thought he was a genius until I saw him talk about whether or not we live in a simulation. He said something to the affect of "if we are to assume that it's possible for technology to progress to the point of simulating universes indistinguishable from our own then the possibility of us living in a prime universe is one in billions." A bunch of people at the time ate that shit up but I immediately recognized that he pulled that shit out of his ass given that the whole thing is predicated on a giant assumption that by all accounts isn't even likely like at all and that there is absolutely no basis whatsoever for the 'billions' figure. Ever since then it's been blatantly obvious to me that he mostly doesn't know what he's talking about 90% of the time. And when he does know what he's talking about he's willfully deceitful in order to try to manipulate everyone.
Just shows how uneducated you are. Putin was trained kgb agent during the soviet union. You see how he looks at his current age and it doesnt take a rocket scientist to tell he could wreck the ordinary politician and dictators. Russia's whole thing is physical strength.
Putin is a trained KGB office clerk. His job in East Germany didn't require any skills whatsoever.
I do believe that he is good in judo, though. Or, maybe not literally good, but would almost surely be able to kill me with his bare hands. Except, of course he's quite old now, so maybe he'd just get a heart attack in the process? His body might not be in a very good condition, but judo is a thing you don't really forget.
At least it's sure that I can run a lot faster than Putin can, and that would probably give me enough of an edge. Could probably lob some heavy objects at him, then run away to find another heavy object to throw, etc. He's not an honest man or a fair player, so neither does his opponent need to be :)
You're right but I'm also assuming you're somewhat healthy and young. Compare Elon musk and putin. Or really putin with any dictator or politian, be it macron, stammer, trump, tradeu, xe Xing ping or kim jong un. For an old kgb fossil. I a 25 year old man would get absolutely wrecked by Putin in a 1 to 1 fist fight
Putin weighs 50 bucks soaking wet. He’s smaller than my grandmother. Unless the kgb teaches mean shin kicking techniques, I reckon my gran could take him.
Honestly, musk isn't that young either and he's never taken care of himself. Yeah he's only in his 50s, but that's a skinny fat 50 something yo that has never taken care of himself at any point. Putin is your typical strong man bully type, and those types do like to take care of themselves in order to have that bravado image going for them. Plus he does have the training from way back. I'd say it would be even simply because musk had never at any point trained himself physically. He's the richest man in the world, if he cared, he could hire personal trainers and chefs and what not but he doesn't which makes me think he could even curl a 30 lb db or something small like that.
I haven't thought about it, but you're right. He's the richest man in the world. He could (and would need to) literally pay models to fuck him to burn off the calories or whatever else he can come up with. Instead he's just like, "nah."
A big hurtle to get over for being in shape is diet. Sometimes it's just easier to eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast rather than making the eggs and stuff that would actually be healthy. But if you always just have it ready without any thought into it, it's one less hurtle to overcome. So the fact he's not doing anything for it at all tells me he's completely worthless physically. He wouldn't even have to work out that much, just eating healthier with the bare minimum of training could put him over putin easily. But it's easy to see that's not happening
They’re both targeted towards commercial or government business, which is unfortunate from an individual subscriber perspective. I would love to see a euro competitor to Starlink and Kuiper, so I can unplug my Starlink.
Iris2 looks like a traditional Euro project with a dozen companies from different countries involved, to make sure the funding isn’t concentrated in one country. SpaceX has the advantage of improved integration in comparison.
We should reconsider every thing associated with this psychopath… which is why he would stop at nothing until he owned those who might challenge him. Elon may be the most significant threat the western world faces at this time, and I don’t think the solution will come from inside his captured governments.
We should consider buying and nationalizing starlink. It's apparently critical for national defense and security, so it would make perfect sense to nationalize it.
In a perfect world, yes. No one in the current administration and no GOP member in congress wants it, hell, the supreme court might even revoque it if suggested because Vladimir Vladimirovich, our dear leader would not allow the orange governor of neorussland to do it.
Starlink is just putting up cubesats with basic programming variations. The EU space agency can easily provide a competitive service that values freedom and democracy.
So Hughes-Net & ViSat aren't a thing ?
They're satellite internet companies probably based in Europe, but I could be wrong.
(I probably butchered the names)
Also, how rich of Elon, a man whose existence is propped up by government funding to bark & bite the hands that feed them
The main European actor is called Eutelsat. They say they can provide a similar quality of service in Ukraine as Starlink. They have GEO sats and a LEO constellation of around 650 satellites.
They use higher orbiting satellites which come with some trade-offs, lower speeds higher latency and more easily disrupted by weather events. When they say there is no competition they mean in terms of what you get and as much as I hate the man he isn't wrong there is nothing to compete with starlink right now
Elon Musk's atoms are poorly arranged for maximizing utility to the human race and would be better served if they were rearranged into fertilizer for feedcrops. At present they are just in a cloud of un-thought. Utilitarianism must be respected.
I wouldnt be suprised if putin beat his ass. They both might be old decrepit fucks but putin has martial arts training at least. This response to one of my countries government officials is also what pushed me over to finally dropping as much american everything as possible.
before the Ukraine war felon wanted to open a tesla factory in russia, he and putin want to do buisness together and the war in an inconvenience, it is all about $$
My money would be on Putin for sure. There's no way Musk's pale, puffy body has ever been in a real fight, unless you count lying on your back and kicking upwards while screaming to be "fighting" per se.
A more interesting contest would be between Musk and Trump, since Trump outweighs him by probably 80 pounds and has much greater reach. Plus the force of his punches would be concentrated into a smaller area!
Putin is 8 inches shorter and 20 years older than Musk.
Then again Putin would have the very best doping program in the world, Musk would probably take a bunch of unproven experimental hormones and ketamine, not work out, and get an ever weirder looking body.
i find new reasons to hate on this man,
sadly he was an idol when i was growing up
kanye west'd himself real quick. ah they two are friends right! makes sense.
An alternative sure, but not in the manner. StarLink is already filling up the air space and producing a ton of new space debris. It needs to die with an entirely different alternative.
The alternative is putting up "do you want free training on operating a small bulldozer?" signs everywhere, hiring the humans who show up, and laying down underground cable or telephone poles everywhere. Fuck, just slap a "national defense" reason for why there needs to be internet everywhere for military communications.
Starlink outshines in latency vs undersea cables. Small drones use small radios, bigger drones can use bigger military satellites. Just build out communication to rural areas already. Integrate comm lines into road maintenance crews.
nothing will ever be good enough for the fascist. the point is not deals, the point is capitulation. there are winners and losers to the fascist. there is no mutual aid or benefit
They use high flying satelites that stay in a fixed orbit for a very long time.
On the other hand, starlink satelites fly in low orbit where there is enough air that they are dragged down and must be replaced. This is expensive and only possible because SpaceX made rocket launches significantly cheaper.
The advantage of the low orbit is the low latency which makes it possible to steer drones.
I also see (my parents recently "upgraded" to wireless nternet) better speeds and a whole lot less jitter.
My parents get about 100mbps both ways, and relatively consistent jitter. The jitter can vary depending on if there's a storm or something but since those don't usually blow in and out in a few minutes, it's not really a problem.
While I get the sentiment, another solution would put even more junk into low orbit, and cause even more problems for radio telescopes. There was already major concern about this with Starlink.
The questions are, what are the use cases, and can they be served by alternative technologies? When you answer that, then you can look into seeing if the extra latency to GEO is acceptable, or if terrestrial systems can do the job.
Eventually, I could see satellites becoming modules that attach to a frame that handles station keeping and such. That would keep LEO debris down. Would probably need Starship-level heavy lift to make that work, though, and nobody else has a rocket on that level except the chronically overbudget/overschedule SLS.
That would be Eutelsat, but it is smaller in scale (at the moment) and therefore more expensive. It's also said to be less userfriendly, but that should be possible to fix.
That is a lost cause whether they like it or not.
And this was with the help of those things.
I know it's not popular here to say such controversial things like "a diplomatic resolution" but I don't see the point of sending granddads, kids to the meatgrinder.
There would've been an agreement long time ago but it was sabotaged by Boris Johnson who want the war to continue to the last ukranian.
What the hell happened to RF? Did we lose spread spectrum? Why does this have to happen over satellite? Does everything have to be high speed IP based to get the job done? Are all the HAM's dead?
Theyre small, light, and have a low energy profile. It's pretty hard to jam a satellite. You can transfer data pretty fast and reliable and without range limitations. If you lose a device, the enemy still cant listen because they get locked out of the device.
RF mesh would totally fit the bill on everything except fast. As far as listening, you can just do data over RF with the same security level as the sat.
No, but it's a dying breed. Everyone is so used to wifi "just working" that there's little interest in learning basic radio.
Plus, encrypted data on ham radio is SUPER illegal (and the other hams salivate at the project of tracking down where the illegal broadcast is coming from) so the people with those radio skills don't necessarily know how to make it useful in a wartime scenario.
There is! Sort of, in the making. World Mobile is a service that is in the works of getting a decentralised network out to provide internet in rural areas, and 3rd world countries. Really fun project to follow.
When the war was turning in Ukraine's favor and they were about to push into Russia, he shut it off and crippled their counter offensive. I remember. Fuck Elon and fuck starlink.
Not push into Russia, but attempting to retake Crimea.
They're presumably talking about the Kursk Oblast.Edit: probably not, see responses.IIRC that was long after that. The initial shutoff of Starlink happened around the explosions targeting the Crimean bridge and them introducing their naval drones.
Exactly, he basically messed up the offensive to retake Crimea.
Elon & Trump are Russia's greatest weapons.
Which is why Starlink needs to be confiscated and managed by NATO. Somebody has to operate it, and it should be an entity who is on the side of Freedom amd Democracy.
It's not that easy to confiscate sattelites
Sure it is. You just confiscate the infrastructure that operates them here on earth, and order their employees to comply.
I don't think that this would be a good idea, but it is definitely doable.
Oh no I'm hearing from people that wa a technical glitch.
Close. There was a geobarrier that he refused to remove. Because attacks against Russia are aggression.
He also challenged Zuck to a cage match and chickened out when Zuck accepted. They’re both pieces of shit.
He even chickened out of his recent offer to come on the Daily Show and debate Jon Stewart! He's a Nazi coward even when it's just talking...
Did he officially bow out then? Jon gave him all the conditions he wanted too...
Lol I forgot about that! Yeah fuck em both of course, but I feel like most folks would put their money on the ex-KGB agent who seized and kept control of freakin' Russia over nepo-baby "gamer", "engineer" Musk. What a goofy threat. And I say that as a middling gamer and engineer myself lol
Putin is 5' 7", like 160 lbs, and 70 years old. Elon is 6'2", probably 200 lbs, and 52 years old.
I don't think fitness and training can overcome 20 years, 50 lbs, and a full head of height.
Huh great point!
I thought you were gonna say "full head of transplanted hair," but I was disappointed. I've seen tiny guys take on bigger dudes when they have more skill. The age thing is more what I might think of as an advantage for that doughy chud.
As a 6'2" dude, 200 lbs is pretty skinny. I'd bet Musk is closer to 250 lbs of useless fascist.
Musk is so fucked up he's gonna make some noises, groan, then shit himself after the first attempt at a swing
70's isn't too shabby in this day and age for a well kept physique, it's 80+ the rot cements itself.
Putin also practiced judo for most of his life. Musk won’t be standing for long during the match.
It’s Zuck and Elon not Elon and Putin.
The Tweet linked in the OP is Musk claiming that he challenged Putin to a fist fight.
Oh I missed that part. Thanks. I tend not to read his tweets because they make me angry.
I hate Zuck but in this match I’m thinking if it’s not mutually assured destruction, then I might root for Zuck. Elon is becoming a very big problem.
Or 400 pounds of semtex under the cage. 2 birds, one ring.
I would literally give away a kidney to see that live, through binoculars from about a half mile away.
Zuck is actually fit, trains, and is 10 years younger, hence why Elon chickened out.
I don’t respect Putin very much, but I am 1000 percent sure that a former KGB agent will whoop Musks ass. Apart from that, wtf is he trying to show with challenging Putin to physical combat. What does that have to do with Ukraine?
He's just a moron.
At least Zuckerberg looks good now. Musk looks like shite
Eh, I'd say he looks less like a robot rather than good. But yeah.
The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human...sweat, bad breath, everything.
Don't let the fascists fool you, there are alternatives to Starlink. Eutelsat in France, Telesat in Canada and Inmarsat in the UK, just to name a few examples.
It’s faster, cheaper, and on the tech side more reliable (definitely not politically reliable though).
My guess is better coverage and latency with its sheer number of satellites.
They use low earth orbit, which require them to use more satellites, but lowered latency.
Technically, and this is purely semantics, coverage is the major downside to starlink. They are faster, though.
The coverage of satellites has an exponential factor of the distance of that satellite to earth. If you had the satellite further out then its signal could reach a wider area before being cut off by the curvature of the earth. However, as the distance increases, so does latency.
Now, I don't know, but I would assume its the latency. Starlink has a (impressively) low ping of < 100ms, while existing alternatives usually have 600ms+. Now, that's only relevant if they are using it for stuff like flying drones.
I think you'd notice half a second even just browsing the Web.
Yes, but a wep page loading slow isn't critical. Controlling armed drones in a battle is.
Starlink has enough uplink to be able to handle live video streams and a latency low enough to do this with simple tools.
I’m not sure if that still happens, but I’ve seen some pictures of Ukrainian command bunkers literally getting drone feeds using discord screen share.
"Would you like to upgrade to Nitro"
"Be quiet small man"... smallest dick energy I've seen today.
Musk is gonna be copping a lot of that in response to his tweets now.
Isn't it becoming quite widely known now that he's gotten a bad penile implant?
his brain is as broken as his willy
Dick so small he probably drives a Cybertruck.
did elon really say "pipe down pipsqueek" like that worked well for drake? man people with canadian citizenship gotta stop doing that.
Soary :(
I think the ritual to siphon all Canadian aggression into Justin Bieber every year is beginning to fail.
Also a reminder that everyone who is not a Musk sheep should leave Twitter.
Nah, Elon thinks it's elegant. As in "Ha ha, I spoke like a big boy. I heard that badass line on TV once, on one of those shows I'm not supposed to watch. Bet that guy is now red on face and is so distraught he won't be able to eat broccoli on supper and his mom will yell at him. Owned."
That's how dumb shit argue on the Internet. Ad hominem.
Really dude ?? 4Chaners are smarter than Elon, Elon is the definition of rock-bottom
They're just as obnoxious as he is.
You have never seen the wholesomness of 4chaners have you ? It's not something Elon would be, I can guarantee that
"Be quiet, small man" sounds like a thing Dennis would scream at Mac in IASIP 😄 THE GOLDEN GOD! Dude is copying a comically psycho character from a show, thinking he's being sooo cool 😎
It's literally an expression of the outsized amount of power this dipshit wields due to his enormous stolen wealth.
He says that to a member of the Polish government to remind him that he is powerless and owned by the capitalist class.
"Be quiet small man" with an implied "I own you."
disdainful sniff new money, daahling.
If America was a real country this guy would've immediately been removed from any and all companies he runs.
Does SpaceX not have a board?
SpaceX bggest customer by far is the US gvernment. Obviously that is run by Musk, so they will not fire him.
But why? Why did t NASA do this. Instead government funded it and a private citizen controls it and gets all the benefits.
America is a bastion of capitalism, now you figure out the rest, you are smart.
They’re all his pawns
I get what you're saying, but I refer to my car as...my car. I didn't turn a wrench in its construction, nor did I design it, but it's still mine.
I mean he doesn't own it, SpaceX does. And he owns a bit less than half of SpaceX, though he retains most boring power.
Except for the fact that he doesn't make anything, he pays people who do, then takes the credit for it. Is his way with everything: companies, gaming profiles...
"I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat over Ukraine and my starlink system is the backbone of the Ukrainian army."
It's the first sentence of the quoted tweet.
The interior, initial Musk tweet. It's a snippet in the middle of a sentence.
Is this exchange real? Surely this can't be, right?
Looks like it is real https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1898759859459203457#m
OK, so this is where things are now. Wow.
Yeah I could not believe myself. But honestly people in position of power need to be out of twitter. It craves and feed on attention.
Musk has completely lost touch with reality at this point and thinks he's god.
That's what being completely fucked up on disassociatives all day everyday day will do to you.
Being one the richest men in the world and completely unaccountable sure as shit doesn't help.
He's a ketamine addict, so that's probably affecting his cognitive facilities to a degree.
What are the clinical manifestations of Ketamine addiction? I'm asking honestly, because I don't know, and I wonder if he ticks the boxes.
Physical Effects
Damage to the urinary tract – Ketamine abuse can cause inflammation, scarring, and ulcers in the bladder, urethra, and kidneys. This can lead to difficulty urinating, frequent urination, and even kidney failure.
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Thanks! Wonder if Elon gets on Twitter to kill the time while he's straining to piss
I bet on "difficulty with problem solving" + paranoia considered how stupidly he's running the whole stuation.
From NIDA.
I live for the day he Michael Jacksons
https://kyivindependent.com/poland-will-seek-alternatives-if-musk-cuts-ukraines-starlink-access-sikorski-says/
Given Musk's latest remarks, they need to implement an alternative yesterday. I fully expect Starlink to be cut on Monday.
He makes ambigious statements (I read the linke nitter link). Eutelsat OneWeb is available now. If it is robust against russian jamming needs to be seen.
Iris2 won't be available before end 2030s or so. But there is another European goverment constellation they mentioned.
Edit It was govsatcom. Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-help-ukraine-replace-musks-starlink/ and Infos about the Constellation https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-space/govsatcom-satellite-communications_en
Others are also considered: https://mil.in.ua/en/news/eu-negotiates-starlink-replacement-for-ukraine-with-four-satellite-operators/
It is real and my biggest concern right now is that European politicians seem so quiet about this. This conversation, including Rubio's comment, is scandalous.
Why couldn’t it be. I don’t understand at this point how people can read shit like this and go ‘no way he would say that’
I got permanently banned from Reddit for saying this. 17 hours and it's still up uh
Edit: whoops 17 upvotes, not 17 hours ☺️
I got IP banned on Reddit for saying that someone who pushed a woman on a bike over and made her fall, should be pushed instead. Big violence on my part lmfao
.world gave up moderating Saint Luigi. I don't know what .uk's stance was
We'll probably have to figure that one out but we largely let the Mods set the tone in communities and, as this is a friendly, helpful community, I wouldn't bet on that post remaining.
Fuck it feels good to say that doesn't it?
Absolutely
It's quite an interesting insight into what kind of thing Musk himself feels is a great insult (hence he is susceptible to it) as well as how much Musk thinks his opinion counts for people such as the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, all of which dovetails with the idea that the guy suffers from both Megalomania and Narcisistic Personality Disorder.
For any reasonably well adjusted person in a position of responsability such as being the Foreign Minister of a country the size of Poland (or, frankly, for anybody self-aware and self-confident), being called "small man" by somebody like Elon Musk is roughly the equivalent in importance to being barked at by a dog that cannot actually harm you.
For a person who is afraid of being assassinated, he's pissing off a lot of people with the resources who could get him assassinated.
The irony of elon calling anyone else "small" is hilarious....
Elon is quite large actually, especially his torso.
Yup, nothing else of him is either big or medium sized. He has some complexes
Disgusting. Why the FUCK would you talk to our allies this way? The guy is a polish government official.. (I mean obviously I know why, Elon is a megalomaniac).
"Small man"??? WTF. I hate it.
You wouldn't talk to your allies that way. Which once again makes it clear that the current US administration no longer sees Europe as allies.
America as whole sees you as meatshields against the Russian bear
We know. Only the idiots deny it.
More competition will ensure the oligarchs to behave.
I don't trust the EU tech owners, but I recognize that they are at an disadvantage to the US counterpart (and nationalism is a useful tool to sell their product) so they won't be making overt moves to dismantle European democracy.
It’s really really really not up to trust! Imagine if bec of eu oligarchs thousands of folks died because said oligarchs refused to pay for peoples healthcare!
The one remaining guillotine in France would go around!
So there really is one still in existence? So, like, if a prototype were needed ( just hypothetically speaking, of course), to build more, that could be done?
Asking for a friend. . . Of a friend.
I mean, the things aren't arcane devices from a mythical age, they are pretty well documented if you wanted to build your own.
But they are not that simple, I remember reading that long ago people wrote they were amazed about how they were built, especially the portable ones
I'm more in favour of the Mussolini approach. As in: what happened to Mussolini.
How about when Spain voted out their fascist Prime Minister and put him in the Spanish space program:
Nah, we don't want (more) innocent people to die.
Despite the explosion, the only people injured (and killed) in that event were the 3 people in the car.
Love it when the fucking around leads to finding out
Holy shit that jump is crazy. Carlos Slim related as well I assume.
This post has more upvotes on Lemmy than Reddit
It's time for Europe to finally get their own solutions.
It's called One Web by Eutelsat. Same latency and reliability, but less Mb/s about 70 Mb/s (and does it matter much for the few Kb packets to relay small amounts of data?).
Eutelsat has about 9% the number of satellites and Starlink is expanding fast. This significantly limits the potential backhaul, which is why Eutelsat doesn't really focus on consumers, but rather governments and enterprise. They don't have the backhaul to offer wide consumer products. Their cost of launch is 10x higher than Starlink, at least, so they'll never be able to compete in backhaul or the consumer space. Of course they could contract SpaceX to launch their satellites, but then they're basically paying the competition to operate, and this power imbalance would be immediately leveraged to their detriment.
The bottom line here is that competitors need reusable rockets, and no one else is even close. However Musk put together the company and strategy pushed space transport forward by decades in a very short space of time, and it's unlikely another Musk figure emerges in Europe. I do not subscribe to the common notion that if we throw enough money at the problem we can solve it. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin confirms this. It appears to require an appetite for extreme risk; the will to blow up hundreds of expensive rockets; and likely a penchant for the disregard of existing safety laws. The EU would never permit this.
Its a tricky balance, on one hand the US system has createst the most profitable and capable companies on earth, on the other hand its also created the most powerful and regulation capturing companies on earth.
I don't really believe in the financial aspects of reusable rockets, but I tend to believe in the financial aspects if an air force gives you free launch sites then a US state gives you public land to use as you wish without any supervision. Using taxes to pay for something and call it cheap, as shameful with spaceX as it is for EU healthcare (except in one case it benefits one company, in the other whole nations).
I'm not really sure I understand what you're arguing here. That reusable rockets are easy to build as long as the government gives one some land to use? If that were true we would have had reusable rockets many decades ago.
Awesome hopefully it will improve and be a contender world wide.
Here's one: https://www.skydsl.eu/en-DE/Personal/Satellite-internet/Tariffs/Private/Overview
Seems to be about half as expensive as Starlink. 700ms latency though. So you won't be gaming skydsl.
Promising , I bet th latency will improve with time , very good
No, it won’t. If I recall correctly, it's a geostationary constellation
That's weird: Musk and Trump are doing exactly what one would if they were Russian assets, bent on destroying western alliances... You don't have to believe all the evidence that they are... Just imagine that these 2 billionaires are compromised. What would they do at this exact moment in history...?
I can't fucking stand that douche. I wish Luigi would visit that cocksucker. Man, that feels good to say. Fuck Reddit too!
Look at it this way, if they did indeed arrest and frame an innocent man for convenience, maybe he will.
Twitters UI confuses me. Where do I start? What's the next one? And where's the end?
It starts in the middle. It's smaller and indented because it's then being quoted by the Polish minister on top. Then Elon, fuckwit that he is, responds at the bottom.
How is that coherent lol. What happens when 4 or 6 tweets are twoted?
It was never meant to be used like this, and Twitter just never changed it out of pure stubborn bullshit
The original idea is that you'd retweet something, say something like "check out this bullshit" and then read the re-tweet, but people regularly use it as a reply feature that boosts to their audience instead and so this UI insanity happens
Okay that makes sense. I never really got on the twitter train so I'm appreciate the run down.
There's so many places where strategically important resources have been delegated wholesale to the US. Now, concerning mankind, it's theoretically better, of course, to not overdo it with wasteful redundancies. But, unfortunately, we're not talking about some kind of UN-controlled infrastructure, which is maintained and used internationally. Unfortunately, it's controlled by people like this, and that is now coming home to roost.
I mean with the right President there would be reason to take it under the Defense Production Act or civil forfeiture. But Democrats will surely squeal, "our hands out tied" until the next Republican gets elected.
Rubio shouted at Musk, so poor Elon took it out on a foreign country's government official and called him "little man"
This acutally makes sense, which is even more sad.
This post was the final straw for me. I deleted all my accounts on non crucial US based services yesterday when I first saw it. I was already angry with what is going on but it was a shallow meme boycott consisting of only drinking kofola now instead of coca cola. It got serious yesterday. Unfortunately I still need to think about the strategy to quit Google since pretty much everything I do is connected to my Gmail.
My strategy is to use both Gmail and Proton and I'm slowly moving from one to another.
Make sure to leave bad review specifically about those services being bad and poor quality.
But if they are not, it's sad. You should put bad reviews with other real reasons.
If you put random political reason unrelated to the app/service, they can remove it. So be extremely critical about their app and services only, have some high standards in what you expect from such services for the free usage data they "steal" from you.
Try Proton!
No.
Nooo, fuck. What’s the best alternative now?
tuta.com
Hubris. This is hubris.
Nemesis will follow, motherfucker, the Moires don't fuck around.
BYD is already eating Tesla's lunch and I'm waiting for another to replace SpaceX.
Not fast enough in Copenhagen. Teslas have become so numerous that within 500 metres i counted 25 Teslas parked or driving around. And that was just 1 street.
Copenhagen is saturated with clean, perfectly un-vandalised Teslas...
Clean for now.
Yes... For now.
Are we really allowing this American man belittle our institutions for his own profit?
No, we're apparently letting a South African man, who is/was an illegal immigrant in the US, and who's maternal side of the family fled from Canada because his grandfather was a Nazi and was trying to drum up support to make Canada a Techno-feudalistic oligarchy, do those things.
FTFY
facepalm I KNEW* I was forgetting something!
Musk is doing so much ketamine it's affecting your memory!
@alxmg @Blaze
I have been boycotting X for years now. I think we should all ignore that ignoramus as much as possible, and boycott his companies. Let's focus on making #Europe stronger and more independent.
I am with you on this, I’ve been boycotting everything American for that matter, and Musk’s services in particular.
Scheduled to arrived by 2030, but the EU is developing one and it's sounding pretty sweet: https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-space/iris2-secure-connectivity_en
Ah, the full Hitler, a bold move let’s see how it plays out.
Pride goeth before the fall, they say. The hellish part is the wait.
Hey, rest of the Democratic world, there are a whole bunch of ex feds right now needing funds and direction for their anger. Maybe you should tap into them if you need someone to rid you of this meddlesome Chancellor.
The fuck did he think militaries use before 2020?
The high orbit low speed predecessor.
Is there any evidence that Musk is right about Poland only paying "a tiny fraction of the cost"? Seems a strange comment to make
SpaceX is bleeding money but I guess they are taken care of for the next 3.8 years
They'll stop it in a few months when Putin tells them to.
What I meant is, they will be prevented from going bankrupt either way – whether the money hole gets filled by a massive contract or closed by Putin's no-fly request.
3.8 years if we’re really really lucky. My money is that our luck ran out in 2016.
Abandon fucking Starlink and use Eutelsat. Poland should also stop buying US made weapon systems.
As much as I hate Elmo, you can fold Starlink terminal flat and put in a backpack and it weights around 6 kilogram and costs around $500, Eutelsat „portable” OW70L is fucking chonky dome that weights 30 kilos, costs $2000 and needs to be transported in a car. They need to seriously up their game, and do it fast.
Nationalize SpaceX and deport Musk to South Africa where he belongs.
(Ok maybe nationalize it under the next administration.... if there is a next one)
I have a question is an immigrant allowed to be vice president ?
No right ?
That's right, I think foreign born citizens can hold any office except president or vp
Maybe Trump was born somewhere else...
Please consult this reference manual: https://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=235
TBH I think any more low orbit telecom satellite arrays than we already have are just going to become a huge problem in the following decades.
Starlink is already being a problem currently, and it's not even fully deployed
This has been commented before.
Starlink flies at a very low altitude, meaning relatively high atmospheric drag, and a very short period of time before their sats deorbit if they go dead, less than ten years.
It's nowhere near the problem everyone makes it out to be.
Official statemens claim they run for about 5 years, deorbit anywhere, and do NOT always burn up in reentry.
And the aluminium that does burn up, eats away at the ozone layer.
Until we find out that not nearly as much burns up on re-entry as assumed and they've been raining carcinogens for decades.
I didn't say it wasn't a problem at all.
I hate the fact that they just got "permission" to destroy the view of the nightsky.
Isn't it really frightening to let a super rich ketamine infused buffoon get this much power?
I was tricked by Musk into believing his lies before he started to endorse Trump 2.0. I feel stupid now. The sociopathic tendencies are undeniable.
I remember a comment on Reddit from someone claiming to belong to Musk's PR team that said they worked incredibly hard to cultivate his image. But they had just been fired as Musk was tired of being controlled, and kept from doing and saying crazy things. This person said the world would soon see just how much of a. all-around monster Musk really was. I didn't believe them at all at the time, Musk was a genius who was going to save humanity! It really makes me wonder about the actual person behind most of these figures and celebrities.
My life policy is that if someone or something is too hyped,popular, trendy or loved it's usually shit
It's a safe bet and the worst that can happen is something good. Ironic.
I can actually pinpoint the exact moment I became disillusioned with Elon Musk. It was back in like 2014 or 2015. I also thought he was a genius until I saw him talk about whether or not we live in a simulation. He said something to the affect of "if we are to assume that it's possible for technology to progress to the point of simulating universes indistinguishable from our own then the possibility of us living in a prime universe is one in billions." A bunch of people at the time ate that shit up but I immediately recognized that he pulled that shit out of his ass given that the whole thing is predicated on a giant assumption that by all accounts isn't even likely like at all and that there is absolutely no basis whatsoever for the 'billions' figure. Ever since then it's been blatantly obvious to me that he mostly doesn't know what he's talking about 90% of the time. And when he does know what he's talking about he's willfully deceitful in order to try to manipulate everyone.
for me the whole spelunking-rescue fiasco was what broke the camels back.
in my cringe alt-girl era but rät by penelope scott is about this exact topic
Jesus, I didn't even know about that. Fuck that guy.
Also thanks for the banger.
I don't like Putin, but he's a black belt judoka additionally trained in combat by the russian secret services.
He could fuck that misshapen walrus pool toy without even getting out of breath.
Putin is just as full of shit as Elon is.
Mofos couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag.
Just shows how uneducated you are. Putin was trained kgb agent during the soviet union. You see how he looks at his current age and it doesnt take a rocket scientist to tell he could wreck the ordinary politician and dictators. Russia's whole thing is physical strength.
Putin is a trained KGB office clerk. His job in East Germany didn't require any skills whatsoever.
I do believe that he is good in judo, though. Or, maybe not literally good, but would almost surely be able to kill me with his bare hands. Except, of course he's quite old now, so maybe he'd just get a heart attack in the process? His body might not be in a very good condition, but judo is a thing you don't really forget.
At least it's sure that I can run a lot faster than Putin can, and that would probably give me enough of an edge. Could probably lob some heavy objects at him, then run away to find another heavy object to throw, etc. He's not an honest man or a fair player, so neither does his opponent need to be :)
Putin and Jackie Chan are roughly the same age, just for perspective
You're right but I'm also assuming you're somewhat healthy and young. Compare Elon musk and putin. Or really putin with any dictator or politian, be it macron, stammer, trump, tradeu, xe Xing ping or kim jong un. For an old kgb fossil. I a 25 year old man would get absolutely wrecked by Putin in a 1 to 1 fist fight
Putin weighs 50 bucks soaking wet. He’s smaller than my grandmother. Unless the kgb teaches mean shin kicking techniques, I reckon my gran could take him.
He’s also 72 freakin years old, so he’s old enough to be a grandmother as well. The KGB training he underwent 50 years ago isn’t gonna help that.
Who said it would be a clean fight? A tiny novichok capsule in Putin's gloves would make him the winner in a couple of days
Doesn't matter, he'll be dead too.
Honestly, musk isn't that young either and he's never taken care of himself. Yeah he's only in his 50s, but that's a skinny fat 50 something yo that has never taken care of himself at any point. Putin is your typical strong man bully type, and those types do like to take care of themselves in order to have that bravado image going for them. Plus he does have the training from way back. I'd say it would be even simply because musk had never at any point trained himself physically. He's the richest man in the world, if he cared, he could hire personal trainers and chefs and what not but he doesn't which makes me think he could even curl a 30 lb db or something small like that.
I haven't thought about it, but you're right. He's the richest man in the world. He could (and would need to) literally pay models to fuck him to burn off the calories or whatever else he can come up with. Instead he's just like, "nah."
A big hurtle to get over for being in shape is diet. Sometimes it's just easier to eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast rather than making the eggs and stuff that would actually be healthy. But if you always just have it ready without any thought into it, it's one less hurtle to overcome. So the fact he's not doing anything for it at all tells me he's completely worthless physically. He wouldn't even have to work out that much, just eating healthier with the bare minimum of training could put him over putin easily. But it's easy to see that's not happening
I stand corrected.
Putin couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag.
Putin is a small 72 year old man.
He'll I'd fight that POS.
Isn’t OneWeb constellation is debated until Iris2 is available?
But we should reconsider the SpaceX launch contracts.
They’re both targeted towards commercial or government business, which is unfortunate from an individual subscriber perspective. I would love to see a euro competitor to Starlink and Kuiper, so I can unplug my Starlink.
Iris2 looks like a traditional Euro project with a dozen companies from different countries involved, to make sure the funding isn’t concentrated in one country. SpaceX has the advantage of improved integration in comparison.
Well. In my opinion it is about substitues for Ukraine.
https://kyivindependent.com/poland-will-seek-alternatives-if-musk-cuts-ukraines-starlink-access-sikorski-says/ context.
We should reconsider every thing associated with this psychopath… which is why he would stop at nothing until he owned those who might challenge him. Elon may be the most significant threat the western world faces at this time, and I don’t think the solution will come from inside his captured governments.
We should consider buying and nationalizing starlink. It's apparently critical for national defense and security, so it would make perfect sense to nationalize it.
In a perfect world, yes. No one in the current administration and no GOP member in congress wants it, hell, the supreme court might even revoque it if suggested because Vladimir Vladimirovich, our dear leader would not allow the orange governor of neorussland to do it.
Eutelsat!!!
Starlink is just putting up cubesats with basic programming variations. The EU space agency can easily provide a competitive service that values freedom and democracy.
"easily"
The "putting up" is hard to do, especially cheaply.
blast every single one of them shits out the sky. it's an eye sore and he's the small man.
There are already alternatives. Use a mixture of them so they compete with each other for your business. https://www.wired.com/story/starlink-replacement-ukraine-eutelsat-oneweb-project-kuiper-amazon-iris2-elon-musk/
As soon as possible ban Starlink for security, spying risk.
There are alternatives to starlink though. This guy thinks he owns it all
The shares of the most likely alternative are going through the roof.
Put them down like rabid dogs.
So Hughes-Net & ViSat aren't a thing ? They're satellite internet companies probably based in Europe, but I could be wrong. (I probably butchered the names)
Also, how rich of Elon, a man whose existence is propped up by government funding to bark & bite the hands that feed them
The main European actor is called Eutelsat. They say they can provide a similar quality of service in Ukraine as Starlink. They have GEO sats and a LEO constellation of around 650 satellites.
Both seem to be US companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasat_(American_company), https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Network_Systems
They use higher orbiting satellites which come with some trade-offs, lower speeds higher latency and more easily disrupted by weather events. When they say there is no competition they mean in terms of what you get and as much as I hate the man he isn't wrong there is nothing to compete with starlink right now
So we just bring the satellites closer
That's pretty much the whole problem that SpaceX solved with Starlink
Elon Musk's atoms are poorly arranged for maximizing utility to the human race and would be better served if they were rearranged into fertilizer for feedcrops. At present they are just in a cloud of un-thought. Utilitarianism must be respected.
[vibrates proliferously]
How do you speak our language?
I wouldnt be suprised if putin beat his ass. They both might be old decrepit fucks but putin has martial arts training at least. This response to one of my countries government officials is also what pushed me over to finally dropping as much american everything as possible.
before the Ukraine war felon wanted to open a tesla factory in russia, he and putin want to do buisness together and the war in an inconvenience, it is all about $$
My money would be on Putin for sure. There's no way Musk's pale, puffy body has ever been in a real fight, unless you count lying on your back and kicking upwards while screaming to be "fighting" per se.
A more interesting contest would be between Musk and Trump, since Trump outweighs him by probably 80 pounds and has much greater reach. Plus the force of his punches would be concentrated into a smaller area!
Putin is 8 inches shorter and 20 years older than Musk.
Then again Putin would have the very best doping program in the world, Musk would probably take a bunch of unproven experimental hormones and ketamine, not work out, and get an ever weirder looking body.
Honestly I think Putin would beat his ass
Musk would probably be in more danger if he won the fight. Really a win win situation.
i find new reasons to hate on this man, sadly he was an idol when i was growing up kanye west'd himself real quick. ah they two are friends right! makes sense.
most of us were swindled by him. Now we know better
Is he calling people small now to compensate for his fat ass looking like Doctor Robotnik?
An alternative sure, but not in the manner. StarLink is already filling up the air space and producing a ton of new space debris. It needs to die with an entirely different alternative.
The alternative is putting up "do you want free training on operating a small bulldozer?" signs everywhere, hiring the humans who show up, and laying down underground cable or telephone poles everywhere. Fuck, just slap a "national defense" reason for why there needs to be internet everywhere for military communications.
Starlink outshines in latency vs undersea cables. Small drones use small radios, bigger drones can use bigger military satellites. Just build out communication to rural areas already. Integrate comm lines into road maintenance crews.
The US government has already paid over $200 billion across about a half dozen high profile infrastructure projects and countless smaller ones.
But we are supposedly up to ~55% coverage of fiber so maybe eventually it'll be fine.
EU could knock them out of the sky.
What is the alternative?
Geostationary needs a lot more power to transmit.
That's not even the issue with geostationary. The problem is latency to/from satellites in geostationary orbit.
Underground fiber. The thing we paid all our telecoms to install back in the 90s, which they promptly didn't do after pocketing all the money.
I can’t stand the fact that Poland is doing Literally What they wanted - spending a lot of money on defence. Yet, they bark at them.
nothing will ever be good enough for the fascist. the point is not deals, the point is capitulation. there are winners and losers to the fascist. there is no mutual aid or benefit
Thou are right! Someone once said that
Henry Kissinger
To be fair he said a lot of things including:
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
That quote just reminded me of a Bertrand Russell quote:
He was right, unfortunately.
It's weird because Starlink hasn't been around that long that we should have become reliant on it yet.
Was just discussing Eutelsat @ ![email protected] which has a big potentional to fill the Starlink gaps but also as a great investing opportunity!
Then how is it possible that some of the internet carriers offer satellite internet without starlink?
They use high flying satelites that stay in a fixed orbit for a very long time.
On the other hand, starlink satelites fly in low orbit where there is enough air that they are dragged down and must be replaced. This is expensive and only possible because SpaceX made rocket launches significantly cheaper.
The advantage of the low orbit is the low latency which makes it possible to steer drones.
Specifically they're at an altitude of ~600km and the atmospheric drag limits their lifespan to roughly 5 years.
Having used both systems (my parent used to only have satellite available):
Traditional satellite has a ping of around 600-700 ms, while starlink was around 70.
Oof 700ms is going to be worthless for anything besides downloading stuff. Video calls would even be very frustrating
I also see (my parents recently "upgraded" to wireless nternet) better speeds and a whole lot less jitter.
My parents get about 100mbps both ways, and relatively consistent jitter. The jitter can vary depending on if there's a storm or something but since those don't usually blow in and out in a few minutes, it's not really a problem.
But what SpaceX does is so cool, and for the greater good of the humanity!
/s
While I get the sentiment, another solution would put even more junk into low orbit, and cause even more problems for radio telescopes. There was already major concern about this with Starlink.
The questions are, what are the use cases, and can they be served by alternative technologies? When you answer that, then you can look into seeing if the extra latency to GEO is acceptable, or if terrestrial systems can do the job.
Eventually, I could see satellites becoming modules that attach to a frame that handles station keeping and such. That would keep LEO debris down. Would probably need Starship-level heavy lift to make that work, though, and nobody else has a rocket on that level except the chronically overbudget/overschedule SLS.
Be quiet, small man.
Where IRIS 2 🦧
That would be Eutelsat, but it is smaller in scale (at the moment) and therefore more expensive. It's also said to be less userfriendly, but that should be possible to fix.
I challenge Leon to one on one combat. You heard it here first…
Elon is an absolute clown there are alternatives they just aren’t as robust at this time.
We DON'T need them or a replacement.
These things are horrible.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2527902/120-starlink-satellites-burn-up-in-january-2025
You don't. What about Ukraine?
That is a lost cause whether they like it or not.
And this was with the help of those things.
I know it's not popular here to say such controversial things like "a diplomatic resolution" but I don't see the point of sending granddads, kids to the meatgrinder.
There would've been an agreement long time ago but it was sabotaged by Boris Johnson who want the war to continue to the last ukranian.
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/other/eutelsat-in-talks-to-increase-satellite-terminals-in-ukraine-amid-starlink-service-concern/ar-AA1ArMhG
Now I do understand why nations started to name their '' air forces '', '' air and space forces ''
Soon, we may see satellites taken down Space at least until was a place of cooperation. Too bad we start to use it as a new field for combat
What the hell happened to RF? Did we lose spread spectrum? Why does this have to happen over satellite? Does everything have to be high speed IP based to get the job done? Are all the HAM's dead?
Theyre small, light, and have a low energy profile. It's pretty hard to jam a satellite. You can transfer data pretty fast and reliable and without range limitations. If you lose a device, the enemy still cant listen because they get locked out of the device.
RF mesh would totally fit the bill on everything except fast. As far as listening, you can just do data over RF with the same security level as the sat.
No, but it's a dying breed. Everyone is so used to wifi "just working" that there's little interest in learning basic radio.
Plus, encrypted data on ham radio is SUPER illegal (and the other hams salivate at the project of tracking down where the illegal broadcast is coming from) so the people with those radio skills don't necessarily know how to make it useful in a wartime scenario.
Thankgod we're already working hard on that...
Making friends. Everywhere just making friends.
Already happening https://x.com/aourirabderahim/status/1899362362055852429
Cue Rocket Lab
There is! Sort of, in the making. World Mobile is a service that is in the works of getting a decentralised network out to provide internet in rural areas, and 3rd world countries. Really fun project to follow.
Rocket Lab are working on their solution;
https://www.rocketlabusa.com/updates/rocket-lab-announces-flatellite-a-new-satellite-designed-for-mass-manufacture-and-tailored-for-large-constellations/
I am 100% willing to help start a 501(c )(3) with the goal of creating free access to satellite internet