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Re:FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants by ncmncm on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:49AM (#32422036)
To IPO, they would need to release information that might make the whole enterprise seem less tenable. And, if it turns a profit they would be less able to siphon the money off to private projects. (No, not for a Mars colony. There will not be one.)
Re:FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants by suoduandao2 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @07:43AM (#32424232)
>(No, not for a Mars colony. There will not be one.)

Well, not with that attitude >:(

Re:FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants by ncmncm on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:48AM (#32424861)
With or without, makes no difference.

Mars is wholly unsuitable as a place to colonize, and Starship would anyway be far from adequate to attempt it, by at least two orders of magnitude.

Starship might suffice to maintain a moon base, after the model of McMurdo Station, albeit radically more expensive. But that would be an end in itself, not any sort of staging point. There is noplace to go from there.

O'Neill cans make better sense. After aneutronic p-11B fusion is mastered in some future century, O'Neill cans out in the Kuiper Belt will be a place for humanity to expand. The inner solar system is a dump, Earth excepted.

Re:FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants by panick21_ on Thursday August 11, 2022 @11:26PM (#32434426)
Show the math.
Re:FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants by ncmncm on Friday August 12, 2022 @11:13PM (#32446573)
Reader, meet exercise.
Re:FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants by panick21_ on Friday August 12, 2022 @11:55PM (#32446757)
Writer, meet basic standards of making claims on the internet.
Re:FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants by ncmncm on Saturday August 13, 2022 @05:54AM (#32448342)
That reads like a claim.