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Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by Lomlioto on Saturday July 11, 2026 @04:22AM (#48869993)
A Starlink antennna would create a lot of reflection in anything metal like a barrel or bathtub (why would you even have a bathtub on the roof?).

Finding it would be very easy as these houses are not huge houses, enter the house, snip the cables.

Besides that, its all hypotetical. Just because in some random shitty neigherhood this issue exists, doesn't mean anything anyway.

Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by inemesitaffia on Saturday July 11, 2026 @10:46AM (#48872511)
This is a common Brazilian issue you're dismissing.

Very fitting.

Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by Lomlioto on Sunday July 12, 2026 @04:09PM (#48884245)
How is it fitting?

A brazilian favela is not a representation for a global satelite network which consumes and produces a lot of energy and co2 to be send up and poisens our atmosphere when theybreak down.

There was no evaluation of the obvouse shitty problem in such areas.

And as i said, metal tubes do break radio signals.

Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by inemesitaffia on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:48AM (#48888809)
It's very fitting you're dismissing an issue that's not local to you
Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by Lomlioto on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:42AM (#48894414)
Im not dismissing the specific usecase per-se. I dismiss the idea that Starlink is a net positive for society because of a very nice use case.

Starlink still produces a lot of co2 and they can poisen our atmopshere when burning up.

Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by olcarl75 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:26AM (#48907463)
how far can your copium go sir? Talk to any person in the Amazon area or in farms nowadays and you will see the net positive.
Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by olcarl75 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:25AM (#48907441)
I do not live in the favelas, I live in the suburbs you are assuming stuff to satisfy your point
Re:SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – fo... by olcarl75 on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:24AM (#48907418)
No it doesn't create reflections, I got the mini and it looks alright. You seem in disbelief just because my rhetoric doesn't justify your point. However even banks nowadays in Brazil use starlink because overall fiber is disrupted either by crime or drug fiends who thinks fiber is copper.