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Google and ATT invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

so Starlink already put over 5k up there with talks of taking that up to as many as 42k eventually. How much crap does ATT intend to put up there?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shhhh. That is future poor peoples problem and capitalism doesn't think about those people. Now, wouldn't you love to pay hundreds of dollars a month for the privilege of being able to surf the internet ANYWHERE in the world at lightning fast speeds? Doesn't that sound great? All the porn all the time. What could be better?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Well the starlink ones aren't going to be space trash-- they eventually fall out of orbit and burn up. Hopefully these go with the same plan

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The main issue ATM tho, from what I've heard, is what this huge amount of extra crap is doing to us studying space from the ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is that. The other issue which I ignored but is significant is the emissions from the rocket launches getting the satellites up there in the first place

[–] Infinite 2 points 10 months ago

Globally, rocket launches are something like 0.005% of the emissions of the airline industry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

You need to orbit them low enough to experience drag if you want reasonable latency.