Is there any evidence that Musk is right about Poland only paying “a tiny fraction of the cost”? Seems a strange comment to make
SpaceX is bleeding money but I guess they are taken care of for the next 3.8 years
for the next 3.8 years Now now, we should stop pretending that anything could happen in 3.8 years to stop that.
They’ll stop it in a few months when Putin tells them to.
Then how is it possible that some of the internet carriers offer satellite internet without starlink?
They use high flying satelites that stay in a fixed orbit for a very long time.
On the other hand, starlink satelites fly in low orbit where there is enough air that they are dragged down and must be replaced. This is expensive and only possible because SpaceX made rocket launches significantly cheaper.
The advantage of the low orbit is the low latency which makes it possible to steer drones.
blast every single one of them shits out the sky. it’s an eye sore and he’s the small man.
i find new reasons to hate on this man, sadly he was an idol when i was growing up kanye west’d himself real quick. ah they two are friends right! makes sense.
most of us were swindled by him. Now we know better
What the hell happened to RF? Did we lose spread spectrum? Why does this have to happen over satellite? Does everything have to be high speed IP based to get the job done? Are all the HAM’s dead?
Theyre small, light, and have a low energy profile. It’s pretty hard to jam a satellite. You can transfer data pretty fast and reliable and without range limitations. If you lose a device, the enemy still cant listen because they get locked out of the device.
“Small man” says everything.
Musk thinks he’s an edge lord.
Twitters UI confuses me. Where do I start? What’s the next one? And where’s the end?
It starts in the middle. It’s smaller and indented because it’s then being quoted by the Polish minister on top. Then Elon, fuckwit that he is, responds at the bottom.
While I get the sentiment, another solution would put even more junk into low orbit, and cause even more problems for radio telescopes. There was already major concern about this with Starlink.
The questions are, what are the use cases, and can they be served by alternative technologies? When you answer that, then you can look into seeing if the extra latency to GEO is acceptable, or if terrestrial systems can do the job.
Eventually, I could see satellites becoming modules that attach to a frame that handles station keeping and such. That would keep LEO debris down. Would probably need Starship-level heavy lift to make that work, though, and nobody else has a rocket on that level except the chronically overbudget/overschedule SLS.
Calling someone else a small man really shows what kind of man he is
It’s quite an interesting insight into what kind of thing Musk himself feels is a great insult (hence he is susceptible to it) as well as how much Musk thinks his opinion counts for people such as the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, all of which dovetails with the idea that the guy suffers from both Megalomania and Narcisistic Personality Disorder.
For any reasonably well adjusted person in a position of responsability such as being the Foreign Minister of a country the size of Poland (or, frankly, for anybody self-aware and self-confident), being called “small man” by somebody like Elon Musk is roughly the equivalent in importance to being barked at by a dog that cannot actually harm you.
Was just discussing Eutelsat @ !stocks_eu@lemmy.world which has a big potentional to fill the Starlink gaps but also as a great investing opportunity!
I wouldnt be suprised if putin beat his ass. They both might be old decrepit fucks but putin has martial arts training at least. This response to one of my countries government officials is also what pushed me over to finally dropping as much american everything as possible.
Musk would probably be in more danger if he won the fight. Really a win win situation.
before the Ukraine war felon wanted to open a tesla factory in russia, he and putin want to do buisness together and the war in an inconvenience, it is all about $$
Honestly I think Putin would beat his ass
Scheduled to arrived by 2030, but the EU is developing one and it’s sounding pretty sweet: https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-space/iris2-secure-connectivity_en
There are already alternatives. Use a mixture of them so they compete with each other for your business. https://www.wired.com/story/starlink-replacement-ukraine-eutelsat-oneweb-project-kuiper-amazon-iris2-elon-musk/
As soon as possible ban Starlink for security, spying risk.
Are we really allowing this American man belittle our institutions for his own profit?
No, we’re apparently letting a South African man, who is/was an illegal immigrant in the US, and who’s maternal side of the family fled from Canada because his grandfather was a Nazi and was trying to drum up support to make Canada a Techno-feudalistic oligarchy, do those things.
I am with you on this, I’ve been boycotting everything American for that matter, and Musk’s services in particular.
This post was the final straw for me. I deleted all my accounts on non crucial US based services yesterday when I first saw it. I was already angry with what is going on but it was a shallow meme boycott consisting of only drinking kofola now instead of coca cola. It got serious yesterday. Unfortunately I still need to think about the strategy to quit Google since pretty much everything I do is connected to my Gmail.
My strategy is to use both Gmail and Proton and I’m slowly moving from one to another.
Make sure to leave bad review specifically about those services being bad and poor quality.
But if they are not, it’s sad. You should put bad reviews with other real reasons.
If you put random political reason unrelated to the app/service, they can remove it. So be extremely critical about their app and services only, have some high standards in what you expect from such services for the free usage data they “steal” from you.
Try Proton!
