Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies

• Balex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What makes you think Starship isn’t going to Mars?

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  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cryo boiloff for long duration missions hasn't been solved, for one. Have you seen how much it vents just sitting on the pad?

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    • Balex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fair enough. Starship is still in its infancy though so I wouldn’t completely give up hope yet.

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      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be proven wrong and see it succeed, but it takes a LOT more than welding together a steel soda can with engines to get there.

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• theodewere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  you belief in the myths apparently help you to ignore the reality

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  • Balex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You have yet to actually provide any counter points other than plugging your ears and saying “Nu uh!”

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    • theodewere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      the numbers are public, apparently none of you care to observe their reality

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      • Balex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Apparently you don’t know how to have a conversation… Doing a quick search it seems like Starlink is around the break even point for operating costs and revenue, so if you’d like to provide sources to refute that, that’d be great.

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