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PaulHoule 2 hours ago [-]
Somebody should have spoken for fiber everywhere 15 years ago rather than telling us rural people to drop dead.
ProllyInfamous 2 minutes ago [-]
I live in one of the few US regions where our electric provider also provides fiber internet to every single customer (EPB, Chattanooga).
Even ramshackel cabins in the middle of nowhere can get gigabit internet (25+ syncronous, actually). ISP giants have effectively lobbied to prevent this from expanding outside of the electric-provider's supply area, despite ready availability and demand.
It's a racket.
cpburns2009 2 hours ago [-]
Exactly this. A family member of mine had no good option before Starlink. Dial-up is obsolete, traditional satellite internet was not available due to some angle of a valley or treeline. A 4G signal booster can only do so much with a poor signal.
wolvoleo 1 hours ago [-]
Wouldn't mandated fibre for everyone be considered 'communism' in rural US?
I mean, even public healthcare is vilified.
verzali 46 minutes ago [-]
A million satellites is implausible any time soon. You need to launch 300 a day for ten years straight without losing any. Just will not happen.
whattheheckheck 42 minutes ago [-]
And we will only use 64kb of ram
verzali 40 minutes ago [-]
Not the same at all my friend.
jiggawatts 38 minutes ago [-]
The science fiction vision of our future is orbiting factories, massive space stations where you can take a holiday, captured asteroids mined for their precious metals, space elevators, etc...
Many people think that this is realistic, eventually.
The eventually is starting now.
How exactly did people think it would happen? Someone clicks their fingers and we live in a sci-fi universe suddenly? Or that magically the entire space industry will restrict their orbits to a few narrow bands to preserve the oh-so-precious long exposure views of sunsets forever?
These articles are just futile bleating.
The future just isn't going to wait for grey-haired astronomers to catch up.
PS: If we can launch satellite constellations cheaply enough to cause an issue for terrestrial telescopes, then almost by definition we can launch telescopes to space at a low enough cost to solve the problem and get a better vantage point without the pesky atmosphere in the way.
CamperBob2 1 hours ago [-]
It is truly a time of insanity.
Why doesn't Musk just put the data centers on container ships, if he wants to avoid red tape?
Even ramshackel cabins in the middle of nowhere can get gigabit internet (25+ syncronous, actually). ISP giants have effectively lobbied to prevent this from expanding outside of the electric-provider's supply area, despite ready availability and demand.
It's a racket.
I mean, even public healthcare is vilified.
Many people think that this is realistic, eventually.
The eventually is starting now.
How exactly did people think it would happen? Someone clicks their fingers and we live in a sci-fi universe suddenly? Or that magically the entire space industry will restrict their orbits to a few narrow bands to preserve the oh-so-precious long exposure views of sunsets forever?
These articles are just futile bleating.
The future just isn't going to wait for grey-haired astronomers to catch up.
PS: If we can launch satellite constellations cheaply enough to cause an issue for terrestrial telescopes, then almost by definition we can launch telescopes to space at a low enough cost to solve the problem and get a better vantage point without the pesky atmosphere in the way.
Why doesn't Musk just put the data centers on container ships, if he wants to avoid red tape?