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Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by walrus01 »

kossTKR wrote: post #124
walrus01 wrote: post #43

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United Kingdom 450 is a count not because the UK actually launches so many satellites of its own, but rather because legacy commercial telecom operators (geostationary like INMARSAT and others) are often UK incorporated. Dig deep enough into commercial satellite telecom and you'll find stuff with offices in the City of London.

Why did many telecom companies put their offices in the City of London? Taxes, US regulation, military shenanigans?

Finances and investment... not so much that their corporate HQ is legally in the city of london specifically but the people arranging debt/financing to do big costly telecom projects will be adjacent to the NYC and/or London financial markets. Same reason why a lot of submarine telecom projects are closely linked to things in London. If you need to spend a ridiculous amount of money for something that has a 10, 15+ year ROI you need a massive amount of debt and that money can only come from a few sources in the English-speaking world.

Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by elif »

Liquid_Fire wrote: post #137
elif wrote: post #118

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Google Fi is uncapped, global, free roaming. Probably some countries don't work but so far ~30/30 for me.

Sounds interesting, but it appears to be available only in the US, and the international roaming only works for 90 days, so I don't think it really qualifies for "without bothering about new contracts, moving cities or country borders"

I dunno where you found the 90 day thing or how real/recent it is, but I was in New Zealand for about 5 months in 2019-2020 with no interruptions.

Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by chrisco255 »

Etherlord87 wrote: post #92
chrisco255 wrote: post #16

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No country owns space. There is no formal agreement on where airspace for a country ends but informally it is up to the extent of Earth's atmosphere.

> informally it is up to the extent of Earth's atmosphere. And where does the atmosphere end? :) From Wikipedia[1]: Exosphere: 700 to 10,000 km (440 to 6,200 miles) The exosphere is the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere (though it is so tenuous that some scientists consider it to be part of interplanetary space rather than part of the atmosphere). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth

Right, it's merely a convention at this point. It's also been the case that no country has really escalated LEO warfare against another country at this point. Until then it's mere courtesy between countries. We don't quite have a solid line like we do with international waters.

Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by inemesitaffia »

hnbad wrote: post #231
ViktorRay wrote: post #226

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Isn’t it against this site’s guidelines to accuse people of astroturfing?

Okay? I literally said it's not astroturfing. Words mean things. I'd argue the lack of reading comprehension presented in the replies to my comment bords on violating the site's guidelines too. Astroturfing is when a moneyed interest group (an organisation, political candidate, corporation, activist investor, etc) creates a sockpuppet "grassroots movement", usually by creating a coordinated marketing campaign and bra…

There's much better and older sites than this that do exactly the same thing better and cover other constellations

There's also many other providers available globally

This one person nonsense only applies to maybe Tesla superchargers in the US

And only because of the incompetence of competitors

Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by inemesitaffia »

londons_explore wrote: post #227
kube-system wrote: post #193

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Presuming that you translated it to every language: * 3 billion people don't care because they don't use the internet * 7 billion people don't care because they wouldn't be able to afford it anyway * 7 billion people don't care because the question doesn't make much sense to them nor do they really understand what it is about * 4 billion people likely won't participate because voting is not an activity they are famil…

> X billion people don't care because they don't use the internet/can't afford But nearly all 7.8 billion live under the night sky and see 'moving stars'. And that's why I think a global vote would come out saying 'no'.

You'd also get a no to gay and trans rights

Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by inemesitaffia »

javier_e06 wrote: post #148
k4rli wrote: post #61

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So 100Mbps for ~16k people. Barely useful. I can only ever see it being useful for real rural people, who don't get any 4G signal, but these people might also not want to pay the crazy subscription fees or $500+ for the equipment. I don't see any reason why anyone living in or <100km near a city would ever want this. 5G mobile can already provide 500Mbps and fiber is just unbeatable. At least the night sky was ruined…

I went to https://www.starlink.com/map to see coverage you can see that dark areas marked by political boundaries, not physical: Venezuela, Cuba, China, Russia, Makes you think.

Venezuela and Iran have service

Re: Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

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Post by Liquid_Fire »

elif wrote: post #242
Liquid_Fire wrote: post #137

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Sounds interesting, but it appears to be available only in the US, and the international roaming only works for 90 days, so I don't think it really qualifies for "without bothering about new contracts, moving cities or country borders"

I dunno where you found the 90 day thing or how real/recent it is, but I was in New Zealand for about 5 months in 2019-2020 with no interruptions.

I found it here: https://fi.google.com/about/international-rates

> Important: The Google Fi Terms of Service require you to activate and use Google Fi service mainly in the United States (not including territories) for at least one day before using Google Fi abroad. If the majority of your usage occurs outside of the United States over a consecutive 90-day period, we will suspend your international data. Learn more at our Help Center.

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