Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
cole@lemdro.id 10 hours agoI don’t think you’ve ever used Starlink if you think clouds make it fail.
…you do realize it started in Seattle, right?
Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
cole@lemdro.id 10 hours agoI don’t think you’ve ever used Starlink if you think clouds make it fail.
…you do realize it started in Seattle, right?
CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Seattle typically doesn’t get hail core cumulonimbus (supercells). It’s not the same. Plus, I simply am bringing up an edge case since the person who originally replied brought up ships when talking about rural fiber (an edge case).
cole@lemdro.id 1 hour ago
Yeah, fair. Where fiber can be run fiber should be run.
Just scarred from all the times where we spend x billion to expand fiber, it doesn’t happen, somehow nobody gets held accountable.
I mean damn, at least Starlink is providing a service
CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 45 minutes ago
That’s because historically, major ISPs have been given the grants (including Starlink) instead of PUDs. Public fiber is entirely different, it’s managed and installed like a public utility, not a service to be capitalized on. This is why I’ve been so focused on saying that SpaceX should never have been given $1 billion dollars. It shouldn’t have been given to any non public organization.