Oh I’m all for Musk to eat shit. I was arguing that satellites are better, not starlink in particular. Lemmy seems to have issues separating their (valid) hate for muskrat with some of his companies or related technologies. And OP was arguing that cell towers are an improvement over satellites? Wth
Why can’t we have a publicly funded satellite constellation?
How are satellites better if they will never be faster? Do we just accept life in 300ms latency? We will always need better communication so it makes no sense to invest into inferior product even if it’s more accessible currently.
Unless quantum communication becomes real thing nothing will match fiber and cell towers in the foreseeable future.
Sat is a fringe technology for war and extreme remote areas, everything else is already solved.
But the reason I don’t believe in large scale satalite systems for consumers is because they’re disposable. They all fall down or contribute to the growing space junk problem.
So it’s not really any better at the end of the day than just burying a fibre cable for 40 years.
Oh I’m all for Musk to eat shit. I was arguing that satellites are better, not starlink in particular. Lemmy seems to have issues separating their (valid) hate for muskrat with some of his companies or related technologies. And OP was arguing that cell towers are an improvement over satellites? Wth
Why can’t we have a publicly funded satellite constellation?
How are satellites better if they will never be faster? Do we just accept life in 300ms latency? We will always need better communication so it makes no sense to invest into inferior product even if it’s more accessible currently.
Unless quantum communication becomes real thing nothing will match fiber and cell towers in the foreseeable future.
Sat is a fringe technology for war and extreme remote areas, everything else is already solved.
It’s has its place for sure.
But the physics are far more against satalite.
But the reason I don’t believe in large scale satalite systems for consumers is because they’re disposable. They all fall down or contribute to the growing space junk problem.
So it’s not really any better at the end of the day than just burying a fibre cable for 40 years.