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Re:Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all ... by thaumasiotes on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:36AM (#42997804)
The rest of the thread explicitly states that (1) SAR is badly short-staffed; and (2) they have similar training requirements. (see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42997100 )

You're presenting ski patrol as an example of how SAR operates, and the other comments seem to agree. Is it desirable to run SAR that way?

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Re:Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all ... by itishappy on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:01PM (#43002457)
Yes. Search and rescue is not an employment agency. A search and rescue organization without the necessary training to perform search and rescue doesn't help anyone.
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Re:Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all ... by thaumasiotes on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:08PM (#43003948)
That might depend on whether you prefer being rescued incompetently to dying alone in the wilderness, no?
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Re:Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all ... by itishappy on Monday February 10, 2025 @05:03PM (#43005833)
An "incompetent rescue" can end up with more than one person dead in the wilderness.

Sadly, if rescue is likely to put others in danger, I'd expect to be left to die.

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Re:Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all ... by grogenaut on Monday February 10, 2025 @07:31PM (#43007296)
a bad rescue means you need to send in 4*n personel where n is the number of rescuers + original patient.

I feel the gp is just trying to win an argument in comments and not actually understand anything.

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