Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies
Squizzy@lemmy.world 9 months agoIt’s great that there is variety and all but let’s not pretend the CEO isn’t dangerous, see starling/Ukraine issue and that the company isn’t filling the sky with consumer shite designed to be burned up.
Infrastructure should be publicly owned and strong competitive regulation.
Spedwell@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ll just add that “designed to be burned up” is the correct approach to these types of satellite constellations. SpaceX has that aspect correct, at least.
Agree with everything else. Musk is a batshit egomaniac, and letting him dictate use of large infrastructure is careless. Government subsidies should entail a certain public influence over the operation of the system.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I just don’t think we need satellites clogging up the sky for something we can accomplish if we wanted to. Fiber is cheap.
Starlink could be deployed in emergencies just fine.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Clogging up…the sky…you do realize the size of space right? And the size of on of these SATs right?.. it’s like putting 800 washing machines in AZ and then telling people az is clogged with washing machines…do you randomly run into people’s houses driving through your neighborhood?
Romanmir@lemmy.today 9 months ago
nasa.gov/…/what-is-orbital-debris-grades-5-8/
This is what people are referring to when they talk about junk in orbit.