Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
by simion314 on Saturday February 12, 2022 @01:47AM
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Why I am not convinced that Elon and all HJN-ers here are thinking at poor people but instead find this extreme cases to shamelessly use them to promote the technology to work around the fact they don't like their mobile provider.
Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
by lmm on Sunday February 13, 2022 @10:12PM
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Because you're looking at your own prejudices rather than the facts? I'm no fan of Musk and Starlink will never be any use to me (I live in the biggest urban area in the world), but knee-jerk reactionism disguised as environmentalism is one of the biggest barriers to actually fixing environmental issues.
You know, there are poor dudes that live on islands too.
Like one of my friends. It's a river island, it's only about five kilometers to the nearest cellular tower, and as you might guess running fiber across a major waterway is out of question.
So we built a 20-meter tower with a 1.5-meter parabolic dish on top just to get 3G-ish speeds on the site.
Quit the condescension, please.
There are a LOT of people living in such environments. Hell, when we were doing rural cellular in Africa, it was like three days over non-existing roads to get to the installation site. No electricity, only satcom, and that with 1-second rtt. Starlink is the best thing that could've ever happened for those applications.