Thats 445 million we could have taxed at incredibly high rates if we closed the stupid borrowing against shares until you die because your so wealthy loophole.

That could have required billions with a high enough tax rate.

Would he have still done it then?

Edit: shit, Im wrong if that counts as a donation and is tax deductible:(

Esit: actually im not fully wrong if its tax deductible. If for example he had to sell 2 billion to get 445 million, he'd only get to write off that 445 million. That'd still be 1.1 billion in taxes.

US government will probably call that hacking since they didnt mean for someone to download it even though it was plainly there.

How do you get rid of someone with 60% voting shares?

We think this would humane, but we dont actually know is my understanding.

Not that this was humane either.

Edit: i think you meant CO, not CO2.

Once the cops have someone on a DUI pulled over, its probably a relief to see them blow something so high because they know they have enough time to get to the precinct for further tests.

It can go both ways.

Him having the control to do things like this and having the vision for it can allow for big breakthroughs. People might shut something down early rather than persever otherwise.

They can also fail spectacularly when they cant be stopped

Starshield, not starlink.

Starlink is limited as its a commercial / consumer service.

Starshield is the modified, government owned version of Starlink and is allowed to be used for war purposes like interceptor drones. They fucked with starshield not starlink.

Fucking with starshield is a huge deal and should terrify all allies.

If they hadn't done the stock split he'd be at risk of losing his company if he had to pay the tax bill. He'd probably be okay this one time, but if it happened a 2nd time he'd maybe lose it.

Now he cant lose his company to pay the tax bill.

Edit: its possible the 1st one could have made him lose the company though as a 5% tax bill floods the markets with shares and the price cant support it and drops, so he has to sell more shares to pay the bill from the original price he was billed at. But I think he might have been okay with a 1 time hit. We can watch what happens to the stock price when he sells his class C shares and see what would have happened after the fact though.

Edit: people also know he would have to sell before this stock split maneuver happened and could try to take advantage of it to purposefully increase the price before his bill, then depress the price after he got his bill. It could have turned into some hostile action to remove him. That kind of stock manipulation happens all the time.

some sites in my region that people use went down temporarily, but i never used them.

SpaceX did 165 falcon 9 launches last year, the majority were starlink.

Ya, that's the Eutelsat OneWeb constellation.

It's at around 1200km and 650 satellites. It was put up with Soyuz rockets until the war started and then SpaceX (edit: and India) put up the rest.

Looks like SpaceX is about to launch some of the first replacement satellites, but Arriane has some flights booked as well.

https://www.eutelsat.com/media-press/media-centre/news/eutelsats-oneweb-renewal-moves-toward-launch-first-new-satellites

As you said geostationary have substantial lag. If you want to send a message to someone it can work, but to be precicesly controlling things its not realistic. Its upwards of 600-700ms delay. People who have to use it don't like it, that's why Starlink won people over. They want to build a LEO network though.

They could definitely go for less satellites at a medium height and find a balance on usable ping, and that could save some launches. (edit: bigger but fewer satellites at medium orbits could mean more fuels as well to stay up longer on their own, but they would need more fuel as well to deorbit at the end of their lifespan. I don't know how that would balance out. But I'm sure you could get more than 5 years like the LEO ones are planned for, as long as the hardware is designed to last longer too)

The thing with these LEO satellites is if something goes wrong, they will come down in ~5 years. If you go much higher, it could be decades or hundreds of years. Everyone who screams about kessler syndrome because of Starlink is wrong, but the higher you go with a constellation, the higher the risk becomes.

Accept the risks of them... not washing the dishes?

Id be worried they tried to bug her place as well

Its pretty wild ya.

This was about making the satellites for it. Not about launch capacity.

Its a big step for sure and you can't do one without the other, but their current rockets and plans arent a good fit for it yet.

Edit: I just want to emphasis the "yet". I'm not saying they can't, but they'll need to plan for it.

Seems like a good reason to maybe have random ordering? Then it would need to be reading the content to be able to properly change things instead of something a little less obvious like screen calibration.

LOL dude.

LEO has no kessler risk because they come down too quick.

As you go into higher orbits, you know like the MEDIUM orbits I was talking about so they stay longer with still low pings, the chances of something happening increase and there will still be a lot.

Geostationary is not a medium orbit, and yes the risk isn't as high there, but that is not what they want to build.

edit: To be clear, were talking about Kessler here, and the 'chances of something happening' is that something goes wrong and a true kessler syndrome happens. 0% chance in current LEO like starlink. As you go higher, the % goes up, at least in the low latency area.

Edit: Like China blew up their own satellite in the 800km range, and that debris is going to remain in orbit for hundreds of years now. If we put a constellation in an orbit around 1500km, so we can triple Starlinks latency of 20-50 to 60-150, it'd stay up there for millennia if something happened. That's the risk of a true kessler syndrome. Nobody cares if we fuck things up for a few years down so low with these existing constellations. The world would shrug its shoulders in annoyance.

If he hadn't done this.