Don’t let the fascists fool you, there are alternatives to Starlink. Eutelsat in France, Telesat in Canada and Inmarsat in the UK, just to name a few examples.
Why is starlink being used, do you know?
It’s faster, cheaper, and on the tech side more reliable (definitely not politically reliable though).
My guess is better coverage and latency with its sheer number of satellites.
They use low earth orbit, which require them to use more satellites, but lowered latency.
Technically, and this is purely semantics, coverage is the major downside to starlink. They are faster, though.
The coverage of satellites has an exponential factor of the distance of that satellite to earth. If you had the satellite further out then its signal could reach a wider area before being cut off by the curvature of the earth. However, as the distance increases, so does latency.
Now, I don’t know, but I would assume its the latency. Starlink has a (impressively) low ping of < 100ms, while existing alternatives usually have 600ms+. Now, that’s only relevant if they are using it for stuff like flying drones.
I think you’d notice half a second even just browsing the Web.
But what SpaceX does is so cool, and for the greater good of the humanity!
/s
Disgusting. Why the FUCK would you talk to our allies this way? The guy is a polish government official.. (I mean obviously I know why, Elon is a megalomaniac).
“Small man”??? WTF. I hate it.
If America was a real country this guy would’ve immediately been removed from any and all companies he runs.
Does SpaceX not have a board?
They’re all his pawns
TBH I think any more low orbit telecom satellite arrays than we already have are just going to become a huge problem in the following decades.
This has been commented before.
Starlink flies at a very low altitude, meaning relatively high atmospheric drag, and a very short period of time before their sats deorbit if they go dead, less than ten years.
It’s nowhere near the problem everyone makes it out to be.
Official statemens claim they run for about 5 years, deorbit anywhere, and do NOT always burn up in reentry.
Starlink is already being a problem currently, and it’s not even fully deployed
Elon is an absolute clown there are alternatives they just aren’t as robust at this time.
This post has more upvotes on Lemmy than Reddit
Let my add one more then!
Ah, the full Hitler, a bold move let’s see how it plays out.
It’s time for Europe to finally get their own solutions.
Here’s one: https://www.skydsl.eu/en-DE/Personal/Satellite-internet/Tariffs/Private/Overview
Seems to be about half as expensive as Starlink. 700ms latency though. So you won’t be gaming skydsl.
It’s called One Web by Eutelsat. Same latency and reliability, but less Mb/s about 70 Mb/s (and does it matter much for the few Kb packets to relay small amounts of data?).
That would be Eutelsat, but it is smaller in scale (at the moment) and therefore more expensive. It’s also said to be less userfriendly, but that should be possible to fix.
“My starlink system”. He’s literally a walking, talking “you made this? I made this” meme.
Except for the fact that he doesn’t make anything, he pays people who do, then takes the credit for it. Is his way with everything: companies, gaming profiles…
I get what you’re saying, but I refer to my car as…my car. I didn’t turn a wrench in its construction, nor did I design it, but it’s still mine.
I reread and still don’t see what you’re quoting.
“I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat over Ukraine and my starlink system is the backbone of the Ukrainian army.”
It’s the first sentence of the quoted tweet.
My bad.
The interior, initial Musk tweet. It’s a snippet in the middle of a sentence.
I can’t stand the fact that Poland is doing Literally What they wanted - spending a lot of money on defence. Yet, they bark at them.
nothing will ever be good enough for the fascist. the point is not deals, the point is capitulation. there are winners and losers to the fascist. there is no mutual aid or benefit
Thou are right! Someone once said that
The US does not have allies. The US has only countries that are useful for a while.
Henry Kissinger
To be fair he said a lot of things including:
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
That quote just reminded me of a Bertrand Russell quote:
War does not determine who is right - only who is left
He was right, unfortunately.
Also a reminder that everyone who is not a Musk sheep should leave Twitter.
Hey, rest of the Democratic world, there are a whole bunch of ex feds right now needing funds and direction for their anger. Maybe you should tap into them if you need someone to rid you of this meddlesome Chancellor.
He also challenged Zuck to a cage match and chickened out when Zuck accepted. They’re both pieces of shit.
He even chickened out of his recent offer to come on the Daily Show and debate Job Stewart! He’s a Nazi coward even when it’s just talking…
Lol I forgot about that! Yeah fuck em both of course, but I feel like most folks would put their money on the ex-KGB agent who seized and kept control of freakin’ Russia over nepo-baby “gamer”, “engineer” Musk. What a goofy threat. And I say that as a middling gamer and engineer myself lol
It’s Zuck and Elon not Elon and Putin.
The Tweet linked in the OP is Musk claiming that he challenged Putin to a fist fight.
Oh I missed that part. Thanks. I tend not to read his tweets because they make me angry.
I hate Zuck but in this match I’m thinking if it’s not mutually assured destruction, then I might root for Zuck. Elon is becoming a very big problem.
Or 400 pounds of semtex under the cage. 2 birds, one ring.
I would literally give away a kidney to see that live, through binoculars from about a half mile away.
