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FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency (spectrum.ieee.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At some point there will be more satellites than is feasible to manage.

If they aren't already, will we start treating them like telephone poles or cell towers?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's already a bit of a mess to manage, especially if you include the debris. Back in 2007 China blew up a satellite, and as of a few years ago that represented almost a third of all tracked space debris.. (it has its own wikipedia page) If these jokers ever start deliberately blowing up each others' satellites, we could end up in a situation where space becomes inaccessible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

There's wildly different orbits. Starlink flies low and has a decaying orbit due to atmospheric drag meaning nothing is going to stay up there for very long. They designed them to just burn up on reentry after ~5 years. Stuff in much higher orbits are more of an issue because they don't experience the same amount of drag.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If these jokers ever start deliberately blowing up each others' satellites, we could end up in a situation where space becomes inaccessible.

We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ooh, reference to the Matrix.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Nope, everyone knows that the best source of power is humans.

Mobius even admits like two lines later that the machines even have fusion power, and then no one ever talks about that ever again. The whole movie makes no real sense when you think about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Well for starters they wanted to use us for computing power not energy. But it didn't test well because your average movie goer didn't understand.