- Ilovethebomb ( @Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz ) 21•3 months ago
Starlink launches forty-ish Starlink sats every other week, Russia could deplete it’s entire arsenal of missiles and, if they’re lucky, cause a hole in their coverage.
- warm ( @warm@kbin.earth ) 10•3 months ago
Starlink needs deleting too, so that would be perfect.
- Ilovethebomb ( @Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz ) 10•3 months ago
As someone who spends a lot of time in the outdoors, I have to disagree with you. I’m very excited about how this will simplify logistics, and make getting weather etc much easier.
- warm ( @warm@kbin.earth ) 42•3 months ago
The skies are already polluted with Starlink satellites and there’s even more coming. I agree that is does solve some situations, but it’s being done for profit, not for undeveloped areas. Sticking more shit in our skies for money is really sad, I am surprised there’s not more international regulations for this kind of satellite spam.
- Ilovethebomb ( @Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz ) 8•3 months ago
but it’s being done for profit, not for undeveloped areas.
This is such a Lemmy comment, there’s nothing evil about providing a service for a price.
- warm ( @warm@kbin.earth ) 20•3 months ago
Not on its own. Polluting the skies for profit is the problem. Why the cherry picking though?
- Ilovethebomb ( @Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz ) 3•3 months ago
Do you also think cell towers are “polluting the landscape”?
- warm ( @warm@kbin.earth ) 10•3 months ago
Of course cell towers are an eye sore. Though they are more necessary than starlink, often hidden by landscape or on top of buildings anyway. It’s not the “gotcha” comparison you think it is.
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English7•3 months ago
Providing a service for a price is not the problematic part.
The problem with serial killers isn’t that they want money in exchange, either.- Ilovethebomb ( @Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz ) 11•3 months ago
That makes absolutely no sense.
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English5•3 months ago
Oh it does, despite you not understanding it. The point is that even though someone does something for money, that does not mean what they do is not harmful.
And before you
asksay this does not have to do anything with this topic, the reason I said that, is that I think what spacex is doing here is harmful.
- Cowbee ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 3•3 months ago
What’s evil is what that incentivizes. It’s not solving problems but building profit.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•3 months ago
If there were more third-world people here they’d probably agree with you as well. Last I checked there’s like one or two cables going into the entire continent of Africa.
It’s actually a really good idea, with the main exception being the impact on astronomy. That Musk happens to be the guy behind this first network is just an unfortunate coincidence.
- Omniraptor ( @Omniraptor@lemm.ee ) 4•3 months ago
And we even made a whole movie about Kessler syndrome :|
- Player2 ( @Player2@lemm.ee ) 7•3 months ago
Enjoy spreading misinformation online? There are valid criticisms against LEO constellations but Kessler syndrome is not one of them
- off_brand_ ( @off_brand_@beehaw.org ) 7•3 months ago
??
Did you read the comment? It’s not about LEO satellites. It’s about a military arsenal destroying a fleet of LEO satellites. The satellites won’t do a Kessler, but a fleets worth of shrapnel would be a problem.
- Saik0 ( @Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com ) English4•3 months ago
Which is exactly why Russia only needs a handful of rockets at most. You only need to make debris. The rest will sort itself out.
- matcha_addict ( @matcha_addict@lemy.lol ) 3•3 months ago
I’m pretty sure that starlink satellites are orders of magnitudes more expensive to manufacture and deploy than the weapons that can target them.
- Ilovethebomb ( @Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz ) 7•3 months ago
How do you know that? You’re launching an entire rocket to kill one satellite, that can’t be cheap.
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English2•3 months ago
Yes, it is probably expensive, but a satellite is probably even more expensive, and not just by a little.
- B0rax ( @B0rax@feddit.de ) 8•3 months ago
I don’t think it is… one of the satellites cost USD 250k in 2019. it is likely cheaper now.
There have been Anti Satellite Weapon tests (for example from China) to see if it is feasible. The cost for such an attack would be much much higher than 250k (we are talking multiple millions)
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English1•3 months ago
Hmm you made me think and if they use their reusable rockets tech and maybe some other similar things, it may be cheaper in the end because they save a lot of money in places where others don’t
- Ilovethebomb ( @Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz ) 1•3 months ago
They do have more equipment on them now, so it’s possible they’ve gone up in cost.
- Ilovethebomb ( @Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz ) 3•3 months ago
I doubt it, not at the rate they throw them up.
- catloaf ( @catloaf@lemm.ee ) English12•3 months ago
Spy satellites have always been valid targets. I don’t think they’re any more likely to shoot these ones down than any of the others.
- Chefdano3 ( @Chefdano3@lemm.ee ) English12•3 months ago
Can’t wait to hear about space X satellites falling out of a window.
- octobob ( @octobob@lemmy.ml ) 10•3 months ago
I Fucking Love the same joke for 3 years straight!!!
- NoIWontPickAName ( @NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ) 5•3 months ago
You seem stressed, would you like a cup of tea?
- Honytawk ( @Honytawk@lemmy.zip ) 2•3 months ago
We’d stop, if the joke wasn’t relevant anymore.
But I doubt Putin will fall out of a window himself anytime soon.
- tiredturtle ( @tiredturtle@lemmy.ml ) 8•3 months ago
Musk supports Russia so what’s the play here
- Lath ( @Lath@kbin.earth ) 6•3 months ago
That CIA - SpaceX combo to make spy satellites mentioned some days back.
- tiredturtle ( @tiredturtle@lemmy.ml ) 5•3 months ago
Huh, found that news on Google. So Musk is quite publicly doing something in secret, with the CIA and Russia. Definitely fishy
- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 6•3 months ago
Blast Lonnie’s bullshit out of the sky and see if I care.
- Trebuchet ( @Trebuchet@lemm.ee ) 4•3 months ago
Win-win
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English3•3 months ago
So…Goldeneye part 2?