Africans Are Turning to Starlink

Post by andsoitis » Sun, Jul 05, 2026, 11:52 PM UTC

yieldcrv wrote: post #87

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Africa isn't a country? There are 54 countries in Africa, and it has almost twice the area of all of North America, not just the USA [1] 1: https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/continent-size-comparison/no...

Sovereignty in Africa is a joke, the nation state concept shouldn’t have been applied there and the colonial work on imposing that is vestigial at best And that’s the 99th percentile answer on that side of the bell curve When people want to refer to a country on that continent, they do. There is little reason to refer to most countries on that continent because they are basically not separate administrative districts…

Post by true_religion » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 8:46 AM UTC

gorfian_robot wrote: post #162

true_religion wrote: post #109

The problem of it not working well during the rain is a huge issue in countries where cloud cover can last days, and 3-5 months of the year has regular rain fall.

works fine in the rain. source: oregon coast.