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Re:How satellite ‘megaconstellations’ will photobomb astrono... by Aldipower on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:49AM (#24292278)
My personal idea is that Starlink is built for automated high speed stock trading across the oceans, because it reduces round-trip latency by some ten milliseconds. Light is much faster in vacuum, almost lightspeed, then in fiber. In fiber the speed of light is around 68% of light speed in vaccum. Giving "Internet to everybody" is just a marketing trick. People who maybe could need internet for social reasons cannot afford Starlink, that is for sure.

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