General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Mano on October 07, 2020, 09:57:50 PM
Title: A Starlink short video
Post by: Mano on October 07, 2020, 09:57:50 PM
Dave?........Dave?........
Dave’s not here !
:salute
Title: Re: A Starlink short video
Post by: Shuffler on October 07, 2020, 10:31:49 PM
LOL good luck with that.
Title: Re: A Starlink short video
Post by: BoilerDown on October 08, 2020, 09:18:28 AM
There was a discussion about this recently on these forums and some people just didn't "get" the difference between low earth orbit and 1/10th of the way to the moon orbit (geo) and how latency compares.
Title: Re: A Starlink short video
Post by: Shuffler on October 08, 2020, 10:15:45 AM
Putting a lot of garbage in low orbit that will be coming back 5 years or so. Then launch more. I bet those tree huggers and climate folks are in a husky fit.
I am sure the folks who study planets are not happy.
Title: Re: A Starlink short video
Post by: Eagler on October 08, 2020, 11:56:45 AM
Some cant live without facebook so we polute our night skies with gimmicks like this
Eagler
Title: Re: A Starlink short video
Post by: Vulcan on October 08, 2020, 01:59:46 PM
There was a discussion about this recently on these forums and some people just didn't "get" the difference between low earth orbit and 1/10th of the way to the moon orbit (geo) and how latency compares.
And some people just didn't "get" the issues with ground handoff and routing across a network zipping at thousands of km/h around the earth.
Also they are claiming low latency but giving a first hop latency of 25-35ms. Not comparable to cable or fibre (here's a clue, first hop latency on fibre is 1-2ms).
Title: Re: A Starlink short video
Post by: Haskell on October 08, 2020, 05:27:24 PM
Putting a lot of garbage in low orbit that will be coming back 5 years or so. Then launch more. I bet those tree huggers and climate folks are in a husky fit.
I am sure the folks who study planets are not happy.
burning up in the atmosphere is no big deal, its not stuck in geo where it will remain forever.
and this will cheapen actual deployment of telescopes into orbit by financing spacex
Title: Re: A Starlink short video
Post by: Shuffler on October 09, 2020, 03:16:38 AM