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[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Hubris. This is hubris.

Nemesis will follow, motherfucker, the Moires don't fuck around.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

But what SpaceX does is so cool, and for the greater good of the humanity!

/s

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Elon is an absolute clown there are alternatives they just arenโ€™t as robust at this time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Official statemens claim they run for about 5 years, deorbit anywhere, and do NOT always burn up in reentry.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Starlink is already being a problem currently, and it's not even fully deployed

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[โ€“] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

SpaceX bggest customer by far is the US gvernment. Obviously that is run by Musk, so they will not fire him.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But why? Why did t NASA do this. Instead government funded it and a private citizen controls it and gets all the benefits.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Theyโ€™re all his pawns

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 137 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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