> The cargo version can also be used for rapid
point-to-point Earth transport
Cant tell if they are being serious...
SpaceX Starship Users' Guide [pdf]
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe the eventual goal is to add satellite-to-satellite links, to permit routing to more remote areas (albeit with increased latency).
Be curious how feasible this is in practice. a) None of the launched satellites will be able to support it. b) ESA Sentinel laser link is only getting bandwidth of between 1.8-7.2 Gbit/s which isn't all that much.
According to this link (short on details, unfortunately) at least a couple of the sats currently in orbit have laser hardware functional enough to test with. I'm looking forward to hearing more about what kind of bandwidth they're expecting.
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-space-lasers-first...
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#43> The cargo version can also be used for rapid point-to-point Earth transport Cant tell if they are being serious...
> SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled revised plans to travel to the Moon and Mars at a space industry conference today, but he ended his talk with a pretty incredible promise: using that same interplanetary rocket system for long-distance travel on Earth. Musk showed a demonstration of the idea onstage, claiming that it will allow passengers to take “most long-distance trips” in just 30 minutes, and go “anywhere on Earth in under an hour” for around the same price as an economy airline ticket.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/29/16383048/elon-musk-spacex...
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#44"The cargo version can also be used for rapid point-to-point Earth transport."
Why no one is talking about this. This will be game changer if can be done with bigger payload. There are models created earlier that using rocket technology/mechanism, LA-HK can be reached in 2 hours. This can have huge impact on avionics esp with trade.
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#45Regarding the PDF: Why does it seem so hard to get good looking justified text? It appears to me that only (La)TeX manages to get spacing 'correct' / aesthetically pleasing (IMHO). Going from the metadata, this file was generated by "Microsoft Office Word": you'd think MS would have the resources to figure this out.
Okay. So what's good looking? This is inter-word spacing with emphasis to justification without hyphenation, last line excluded. This is the standard of justified text. We can't adjust hyphenation, because hyphenation rules are a quirk of not just language but pronunciation (the hyphen goes between syllables), so it's nearly impossible to find a universal ruleset. Let's mess with some of the other things.
First: why have justified text? What if we just had a ragged right-hand column, not caring where that ended up? Let's just ignore that the user asked for justified text.
Or take the completely opposite approach - what if we also distributed some of the spacing in between the letters?
Which of these three looks best to you: https://imgur.com/a/THB6ifI
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#47"The cargo version can also be used for rapid point-to-point Earth transport." Why no one is talking about this. This will be game changer if can be done with bigger payload. There are models created earlier that using rocket technology/mechanism, LA-HK can be reached in 2 hours. This can have huge impact on avionics esp with trade.
If it's not cheaper than overseas shipping or cargo aircraft, it won't work. It's basic economics.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why can't astronomers have algorithms that selectively throw away data from pixels that are known to have a satellite or a plane in then? It seems like a problem that software can solve. Granted it's more effort on the side of astronomers.
If the sensor gets saturated because of a satellite that's your measurement gone, obviously it depends on the specific experiment. In the month that Arecibo collapsed I think it's potentially worth pointing out that astronomers aren't exactly suffering from an abundance of money.
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#49I am so happy Elon Musk exists today. The world is a much more interesting place to live in. I was outside the other night on a walk and all the sudden I see a 60 satellite Starlink fleet above me and it honestly brought me to tears. He has made science fiction real and has progressed all of humanity more than anyone else alive today IMO. I can't wait for the Elon hate replies.
Sure would have been nice if all of that had been co-ordinated with astronomers so we wouldn't have to impose the negative externality of not being able to observe the heavens anymore as a price paid for faster internet.
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#50"The cargo version can also be used for rapid point-to-point Earth transport." Why no one is talking about this. This will be game changer if can be done with bigger payload. There are models created earlier that using rocket technology/mechanism, LA-HK can be reached in 2 hours. This can have huge impact on avionics esp with trade.
Ask yourself -- what object would be so massive and heavy and yet needed with such immediacy that a company would be willing to pay millions -- perhaps beyond the cost of the object itself -- to ship in a sub-orbital manner? Large and critical infrastructure components like generators, large piping and ducts, etc. are already transported at a fraction of the cost by the likes of the AN-225 Mirya within a matter of hours. What would shaving 15-24 hours in shipping times do for a project?