SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet has 500,000 pre-orders and the installation is entirely DIY. It comes with a tripod and that’s it...you’re just supposed to chuck it in your yard and then drill a hole in your house to get the wires in.
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Sounds like any musk project. Good thing we're fucking up astronomy over it
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I dont, I just think society can afford to organize it's resources in a way to get people internet in a way that doesn't fuck up our ability to understand our place in the universe
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Everything has trade offs - either we use satellites with min resources and impact ground based astronomy or we dig trenches across the planet for wired internet and use max resources with max environmental impact - you choose
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bro considering musk is a union-buster and got a head start in life from his familiy's apartheid mines idk if this is where we should draw the line
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Have you seen the price tag on this? Not sure how much of the global poor it's gonna help at $500 upfront and $100/mo. 😅
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Communities pool resources and fund village access / access opens up economic opportunities / price drops as scale increases
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“Musk is a greedy capitalist who just wants to make money”
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“Musk is a racist who is going to forgo money so he can limit his market to just white people who make up a tiny fraction of the global population and allow a competitor to take the market because reasons”
lmao
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