I thought starlink was just an alibi company to buy rocket launches from SpaceX, and make SpaceX appear profitable on paper?
this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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Leopards ate his.. internet?
Then what, are you going to tell us next that going to Mars also was? Come on! /s
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Slide to switch plan
Ooooh, that's cutesy.
How about "Point a firearm at the screen and scowl menacingly to cancel the service"
this slide to switch sums up Elon's perspective on tech, he will want something super impractical and unnecessary implemented as long as he thinks it is cool
Amazon is launching a competing service on its own satelites.
Maybe they'll collide with each other.
Probably, and well be forever imprisoned on the planet in that scenario because we won't be able to launch anything for a long long time again.
Upside to that is it ensures the billionaires can't escape and are stuck here with the rest of us who are getting increasingly angry.
We already had undersea mashed potato billionaire, I bet space mashed potato billionaire tastes much better.
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Maybe that forces ppl to actually care about climate change...
Maybe we just need stronger spacecraft. I look forward to a future where every trip to space goes through the trash zone where you hear the continuous pattering of small satellites smashing against the hull.
Fortunately, they're all pretty low orbit, so it isn't super permanent...
It's also not as if we can't launch spacecrafts at all, as long as your destination is high orbit the chances of collision are low.
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