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For us non-Americans this is not that great. How would you feel if China or Russia launched such a system? Or even Germany?
Why would I feel anything but good about this? At the worst it doesn't impact me at all, at best it means a large number of people are going to be able to get online for cheap who previously weren't.
Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet
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Why not look at this from a humanity perspective? Imagine connectivity being extremely fast, reliable and cheap for all? Isn't that a good thing? Why is this even debatable as not a good thing? It's like debating if electricity is a good thing or not for all. Yah duh it is. I guess if its improperly used maybe. But that's the only argument IMO.
Re: Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet
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Since these satellites are in low earth orbit, the satellites currently overhead will be changing very frequently. It's possible the satellites will actually not transmit at all over certain countries. The receivers will also know their location based on what's currently overhead. This is all technical assumptions at this point since the service isn't rolled out, but being in LEO instead of GEO simplifies things grea…
> but being in LEO instead of GEO simplifies things greatly It may simplify some things, but it also introduces lots of complications like managing satellite handovers, telemetry tracking for thousands of satellites, accident avoidance in space, etc.
Absolutely. I meant simplifying in response to the OP's question- detecting a receiver's location.