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  • Where am I shifting the goalposts exactly?

    “because being used in war is a reason why it is a bad ISP”, like I said before, I very much doubt the Ukrainians would agree with your take on this.

    “if a war breaks out and a power can destroy them, we’re talking global breakdown of internet via starlink” ?? Do you think anyone is advocating we should replace all internet connections with Starlink?

    “Then there’s also the piss poor service, the poor number of total connections, the lack of redundancy, the cost,” Should I copy-paste about Ukraine again?

    “ecological damage” negligent amount compared to actually wasteful industries




  • I agree with almost everything you wrote. Purely speculation but the starlink terminals might be cheaper? The latency/bandwidth would also be significantly worse with O3b since it’s in medium earth orbit compared to starlinks low earth orbit. “Regular” satellite internet is prohibitively expensive with even worse bandwidth/latency.

    I also agree that people shouldn’t be living in the Amazon but they are and we can’t really force them to leave.




  • From what I understand the Ukrainians never had control of the nukes, they didn’t actually have the launch codes to use them.

    Regardless, having global access to the internet is great. Ask the people living in remote areas of the Amazon, no chance for them to get fiber, or Africa, or remote islands, or ships/airplanes.

    If youre speaking of rural America not needing starlink because fiber is a thing, then you should broaden your horizons