A Starlink short video

[Mano]

Dave?........Dave?........

Dave’s not here !





 

[Shuffler]

LOL good luck with that.

[BoilerDown]

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.

[Shuffler]

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.

[Eagler]

Some cant live without facebook so we polute our night skies with gimmicks like this

Eagler

[Vulcan]

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).

[Haskell]

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

[Shuffler]

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

Climate change folks.... conundrum..... do I want gaming internet.... or do I push global warming?

ROTFLMAO

[LCADolby]

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

Not forever, there are technologies in development to remedy space junk out there