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All satellites will eventually fall and burn up. Gravitational braking will ensure of that sooner or later. LEO is still an Orbit and is designed to be as stable as possible. The internet itself is apparently very unstable however. Satellite television has always been a crap shoot, and Elon's little swarm is an even shittier version of that. At least, according to what the reviews are saying about it. As for ISPs. ISPs spread their infrastructure where there is reasonable economic incentive to do so. Starlink pretends to offer a solution to that, but ignores the fact that the people who can't afford internet STILL CAN'T AFFORD IT. Starlink is MORE EXPENSIVE than my local small town Gigabit internet, and doesn't even get half the speed. It's utterly useless. Do you genuinely believe that the low economic rural locales whom ISPs deemed too poor to be worth building internet infrastructure to are benefiting in any way from satellite internet? This benefits, at best, millionaire farmers living away from cities, and nobody else. It has never been a problem of reach. We dragged cables across the fucking ocean floor for telephones and internet. Reach was never the problem; people's economic situation is the problem, and Starlink offers literally zero solution. Same with every other silicon valley pipe dream.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

This is such a seriously misinformed and shortsighted opinion.

Go on then. Elucidate us. If you're going to call me out, at least have the decency to provide literally anything as a counter claim. Otherwise, all you're saying is "You're wrong". To which I say, "No you."