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Musk reposts tweet calling Starlink service for Ukraine 'mistake'
(kyivindependent.com)
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No one should be using starlink. It has been shown to be completely untrustworthy as a service both by Elon and how it has been used and abused by foreign governments.
The sooner Europe, China and all these other regions build their own, the better.
Yes, because even more satellites in lLEO is exactly what humanity needs right now, we still. Don't have enough pollution and Kessler was just a pussy, right?
Kessler syndrome isn't a big problem in LEO relatively speaking as everything there will fall quickly if not boosted
But pollution is real
Unlikely
It still requires time if we were talking about complete satellites, but we're not
Two satellites collide and you'll have millions if not billions of particles of all kinds of sizes that will stay there for years. Each of those xab damage or explode (if big enough) other satellites. Yes, I'm explaining what Kessler is here, but the point is that it will take years if not decades for Leo to clean up enough to be able to launch anything through that mess and during that time the satellites that were there, well, no longer are.
It WILL be a problem. We have hundreds of satellites at countless altitudes, but starlink just exploded the amount of shit satellites for that altitude. I never thought there would be a good application for it, but lo and behold, at least Ukraine can get good use out of them, good for them, in happy for them, but fuck everything else about starlink. I can see those craps flying through the sky at night, Elmo decided we didn't have enough garbage and pollution everywhere sonhe just decided to add a shit tonne to it.
Now Europe wants its own? China too? Why not every country, then, because we're nsuxh a shitty species that we'd rather destroy ourselves over just cooperation with each other
We should nationalize Starlink and provided it as an at-cost service similar to GPS
If we could have a worldwide apolitical setup that made better use of the night sky that we love then that would be best, but we can't. The ability to communicate in this way is a geopolitical necessity in any modern warfare. Space and AI are the new arms race