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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Do you have any concept of how hard it is to get time on one of the handful of space science instruments we have operating?
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Thats not how any of this works dude. The instruments themselves take yeas and billions of dollars. The launch cost is negligible
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