Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months agoShips don’t need infinite rockets full of infinite cell towers launched forever.
Maybe when we have fusion power and don’t have to waste the resources. We don’t. We have to choose what we want to use. I say that launching infinite rockets with infinite cell towers forever is not worth being able to watch tiktok in the middle of the Atlantic.
There’s always actual satellite internet for the needed communications.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They need 12,000 of them, which isn’t a huge amount considering you’re covering the entire globe.
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Per year, forever. Hence infinite rockets with infinite cell towers.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The typical lifespan is 5-7 years, so 2400 per year at worst.
You don’t really do math, do you?
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s one year. Their goal is 5 years, but it’s one year because they haven’t hit their goal. Starlink hasn’t even been active for five years yet. This is embarrassing for you.