• notannpc@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Ah yes, who needs fiber when you have an inferior product that will be worse in every calculable way?

    Pay no attention to the person who stands to benefit from this deal. There’s definitely nothing illegal about it.

    So what if the owner of Starlink just happened to spend a quarter of a billion dollars to get the current president elected? That surely has nothing to do with the abysmal Starlink service stealing away funding for critical infrastructure.

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      1 month ago

      But just think how blazing fast the speeds will be! When they’re hurtling out of orbit and crashing into your house!

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          They deorbit every 5 years and burn up in the atmosphere they don’t make it to land (although i think i remember a a part of a very early version did and changes were made because it did, but that might have been something else)

          There have been a couple launches where some solar radiation caused damage or a problem with the stage 2 and they all came down and burned up before they made their planned orbit. On occasion, there may be a faulty satellite that doesn’t reach its proper orbit after launch and instead comes down instead.

          Short of an error during launches, it’s all planned.