Re:Weird things about SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites
by dandelany on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @05:50PM
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This nicely illustrates one of the fundamental problems of internet comments… it took 30 seconds to write this but it would take me an hour to prove it’s bull.
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Re:Weird things about SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites
by Rebelgecko on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @05:52PM
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This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as Brandolini's law or the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle
Re:Weird things about SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites
by itworkslikethat on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @07:10PM
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It's true, that's the basic principle Starlink dishes and satellites operate on - they use phased antenna arrays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array
It's not practical to use it as a Directed Energy Weapon, but it is - conceptually - similar to one.