Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 9 months agoCan achieve but don’t and won’t. You might as well be arguing that rural people don’t deserve access to the internet because that’s the only legitimate alternative.
kattenluik@feddit.nl 9 months ago
No, it’s not and you need to read what I said in the second part of my comment.
And if you’re going to be like that, I do believe rural people don’t deserve access to the internet if it means severely polluting the sky, space and the earth while it’s not necessary.
The US government can easily step in, it’s just hard to imagine that ever happening.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Which is why it isn’t a legitimate solution. Starlink exists now.
Why are you so concerned about pollution in LEO but not pollution from digging a million miles of wire and trenches or chopping down forests full of trees, all of which regularly sustain damage and need replacement?
kattenluik@feddit.nl 9 months ago
That’s why I said it’s hard to imagine that ever happening currently, it doesn’t mean it isn’t a legitimate solution.
On Earth you can compensate for the pollution caused by laying in wires, and if this was done by the government it would probably be near or at powerlines (when they exist, which they should) and it could just be part of normal maintenance for example.
None of this can be done with LEO, it’s getting polluted up there and these satellites just get burnt up. We’re removing precious resources from our planet to burn them up for no reason and causing pollution on Earth and outside of it, it makes no sense.