Yup. I understand and agree that it would make any work in those bands essentially meaningless.
I'm not by any means giving Elon, or anyone else, a green light to just pollute the airwaves with my comment. Simply put, he should have not done what he did. Star link is a cool concept but it should have gone through more review before being put into orbit. I suspect if that had happened, it wouldn't have been put in orbit.
IMO, it's kind of just space junk at this point.
They do, and they did. Since star link is global by nature, I'm sure many countries radio regulatory bodies had a say.
Apparently radio telescopes were not on their minds when they made a decision.
Maybe we should stop the billionaires from launching so much crap into orbit.
Namely Elon.
Agreed. Idk I dunno enough about radio telescopes to know what frequencies they typically look at.
Nor do I know what bands star link works on.
Either way, maybe Elon should stop launching trash into space.
I'm confused because band pass filters exist. Can they not add a filter to eliminate the frequencies that starlink uses?
Also, the starlink satellites use phased array antennas, guess that wasn't a great idea either.
According to their own book, no man will know the day or the hour IIRC. So anyone who says they know, at all, is by default wrong, and you can guarantee that it won't happen at that time.
Everyone is a sinner. Especially the religious types.
I just assumed that they forget the horrid shit because of some twisted confirmation bias.
Everyone keeps pointing it out, and they keep telling themselves about the "good" things he's done. Reinforcing their own confirmation bias.
I first heard about this phenomenon in "how to win friends and influence people"... It's a book, crazy, right? It's about human nature, and how arguing with someone often results in them arguing for their point, further entrenching them in their opinion. While they don't convince you with their arguments, they convince themselves and that makes arguing with someone a difficult thing to do, and "win" at (by convincing the opposing person of your viewpoint).
The fact is, the more we argue with them about Trump, the more they have to argue for him being someone that's going to "make America great again", and the further they get entrenched into that viewpoint.
The sooner more people realize that this is a viscous cycle of mental violence and simply decide not to continue, the better. Obviously that's hard to do when you are faced with the very real possibility of him being reelected, and essentially bringing back the Nazi party with him....
Idk what's the right thing to do, but clearly, nobody is going to change the minds of the deranged "MAGA" crowd anytime soon.
I have ADHD, I work in tech.
I'm pretty sure I've of my more troublesome clients is both extremely rude and also needs Ritalin.
Every time I say anything, they interrupt me with a reply, except, 90% of the time, they've didn't actually understand what I was trying to say. The assumption they make about what I am saying is very consistently incorrect.
It's really quite aggravating.
All I can think is that it has a very....
.... feel to it.
I wish that would happen to me. There's two big companies that service most of my area, one is cable, the other is DSL. The DSL provider, whenever I've checked, only offers 10Mbps download. Big nope from me. Cable has gigabit, but capped at 30mbps upload.
There's a third regional provider that operates in my area that does fiber exclusively (plus a bunch of resellers and wireless providers). The fiber company doesn't serve my address. Just me though.... Well, my side of the street. If I put in my neighbors address into their service form, it says they're capable of getting gigabit up and down for a very reasonable price. I put in mine, and "sorry, we don't serve your address" or whatever. I think that's because the utility poles are on the other side of the street, and they're on the poles, but don't have a permit to cross the street (generally by aerial lines)... Which is what the cable provider did when I finally purchased their service; they ran a line over the road to my house.
Upload is important to me, and 10:1 speeds are fine, but 30:1 or more, no thanks. The plan I went for was 300/30, which is the fastest upload they offer with the slowest download (the 200mbps plan was 20mbps upload or something, and the gigabit was 30mbps upload).... I want fiber.
If that regional fiber company knocked on my door saying that they service my area now, I'd ask where I sign.
And before anyone asks: I contacted them about it and they said something about the permits and blah, and blah. I've tried to contact them several times about how I can help get them the permits to operate in my area more broadly (including my address), but they have not responded. I'm happy to petition my town hall or regional governmental office to push things along or even canvassing for signatures on a petition to give them the required permits to serve the area.... Even paying for a portion of the permit cost if necessary.... Not a word from them.
Feels bad.
I'm holding out hope that the fiber provider figures it out and I'll never move again.
I'm fairly positive it's just a matter of time before someone brings in fiber to the neighborhood.
The DSL provider is running fiber to a new subdivision that hasn't even started construction about 1km from my house. Seems like a farmer retired and a developer bought the land. The power utility already put in a pad transformer for the new subdivision, there's no reason to put a transformer there unless you're putting in something significant, and the local DSL guys don't do copper for new builds. They've migrated to XGS-PON fiber, and won't install anything less than that in new areas.
My house is in the pre-existing town, so it will take a bit longer before I see it.
I'm rooting for the local fiber guys, but if they don't make a move soon, the DSL guys will beat them to it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm talking about years or decades here. It'll be a while before I can call up and get service dropped to my address from the DSL guys, so the local fiber company doesn't have to move fast, they just need to move faster than the DSL guys will.
Both companies have fiber on the utility post across the street. I can literally look up at the post and identify it. I don't think the DSL guys have the splitters set up to provide access to my neighborhood, they're just moving mostly dark fiber through, and they're serving a community center and a school up the road. So it's not all dark fiber. The local fiber guys are just missing an over-the-road aerial line permit... They're much closer to being done, they just need permission from the town to run the line across the road so I can get service. IMO, they're much closer to being done, but the DSL company is a pretty big operator. They could get everything done within a few months if they wanted to push for it. Clearly, my little community is small fries for them.
I survive on cable because I have to. It's not great, but it's also not bad.