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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We also risk Kessler syndrome which directly conflicts with your lord musk's goal of an interplanetary species (which I actually agree with, he's just too dumb to pull it off)
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That's simply not true (from the bottom of my soul). I dont like musk but I do truly believe (from the bottom of my soul) that spacex development of reusable rockets is one of the most important things humanity has ever done
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