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Re: SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 12:11 AM UTC

NetMageSCW wrote: post #126

tzs wrote: post #71

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The satellites aren't worse. It is the rockets that are worse. On the way up they emit various things into the stratosphere, which is about the worst place you can emit stuff when it comes to affecting the atmosphere. It has not been a major problem so far because in its entire history humanity has only launched around 35000 rockets that have reached the stratosphere. Ramp that rate up significantly and it comes some…

You may want to compare the emissions of all rockets annually to the emissions of jet planes daily and reconsider your position.

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Re: SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

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Post by zakki » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 12:12 AM UTC

Will it make our sky "cloudy" most of the time?

Re: SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

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Post by drnick1 » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 12:12 AM UTC

Last time I checked, you couldn't get a public IPv4 through Starlink, let alone a fixed one. This makes it a non-starter as a backup link for self-hosters, a use case it is well suited for.

Re: SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

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Post by sieabahlpark » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 12:14 AM UTC

rush86999 wrote: post #112

onlypassingthru wrote: post #107

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Elon turning off Russian access to Starlink by whitelisting only authorized terminals in the region was a turning point for Ukraine's success. The conflict has proven that modern warfare depends on Starlink and its mimics.

China has a huge microwave to destroy any kind of Starlink over its head.

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Re: SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 12:14 AM UTC

ryandvm wrote: post #48

1234letshaveatw wrote: post #9

Musk is nothing if not ambitious

Eh, his promises are ambitious. And the gullibility of his investors is bottomless. I too plan on increasing my revenue 100-fold by 2030.

> his promises are ambitious

First scalable launch system and scaled LEO constellation are more than promises.

Re: SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

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Post by t-writescode » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 12:15 AM UTC

rush86999 wrote: post #112

onlypassingthru wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elon turning off Russian access to Starlink by whitelisting only authorized terminals in the region was a turning point for Ukraine's success. The conflict has proven that modern warfare depends on Starlink and its mimics.

China has a huge microwave to destroy any kind of Starlink over its head.

Citation Needed.

The specifics of an implementation of this are objectively absurd. Power requirements alone make this a non-starter. If that weren’t enough, it would be a declaration of war.

Re: SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

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Post by SequoiaHope » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 12:15 AM UTC

consumer451 wrote: post #5

When Starlink first became available here in poor-ish Central-EU, I was excited. Then, only months later, but after years of planning: EU funding brought fiber to my farm area, at ~$25/900mbps 10ms. While my story is just n=1, I don't understand the huge upside for Starlink outside of Africa or India, where they have However, I am dumb, and very open to be convinced.

Not all of us live in places with EU funding. I worked at a rural farm in California and the EU refused to fund our network infrastructure. We had few reliable options, and Starlink turned out to be the best.

Re: SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

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Post by minitoar » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 12:16 AM UTC

MostlyStable wrote: post #97

swingandamiss wrote: post #12

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I have fiber (I can get up to 300 Gbps at my home in the Seattle area, but I got opted for the 2Gbps) and I have Starlink as backup/failover. I previously used my mobile service for that but learned the hard way that when there's a large internet outage in the area, as it did when we had a bad storm, so does mobile service, either power loss or it can't support the influx of everyone using their phone internet. So no…

300 Gbps? Is that typo? Unless you are connecting to some very particular infrastructure on the other one, nothing you could possibly connect to could use it, and you would need gear that would be somewhat high end even for server grade. (I know you said you didn't select that option, but just the idea that it's even offered to residential units is mind blowing).

Usually there is a 300 Mbps - 10 Gbps range of offerings.

Re: SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

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Post by garbagewoman » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 12:16 AM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #91

wolvoleo wrote: post #79

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Who digs up fibres to sell? It's worthless material. Copper yes but nobody lays that anymore. If it even has to be metal it's usually mostly aluminium.

You'd be amazed at how unintelligent about things tweakers are. They don't know it is fibre when they are taking it. It doesn't keep all of the users on the other end of those lines from losing signal.

What are you basing this view on, sounds like you have personally seen this happen?

Re: SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

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Post by alexnewman » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 12:17 AM UTC

drnick1 wrote: post #133

Last time I checked, you couldn't get a public IPv4 through Starlink, let alone a fixed one. This makes it a non-starter as a backup link for self-hosters, a use case it is well suited for.

i have one