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Re:Realtime Starlink Satellite Map by godelski on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:14PM (#23558765)
> Their competition are geostationary satellites that have high latency due to speed of light delays.

Actually it is due to their distances.

Speed of light delays is something that exists everywhere, like fiber internet. In fact, speed of light is faster in space than it is in optical fiber. The problem is distance.

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Re:Realtime Starlink Satellite Map by Dylan16807 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:39AM (#23561076)
'Actually it is due to speed of light delays. Distance is something that exists everywhere.'

Your weird pedantic distinction doesn't make a difference. They're synonyms in this context. Obviously the difference is how much you have, everyone knows that.

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