• unexposedhazard
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    9 months ago

    the question is why the fuck was a private company allowed to build and operate star link?

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      9 months ago

      Because the DoD can have plausible deniability by not giving Ukraine access to the actual military satellite network.

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      9 months ago

      what do you mean by allowed? as in if you are a private company you should not be allowed to have satellites? is that what you mean?

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        9 months ago

        As in there’s only so much air space and it’s already crowded…

        It’s needs regulated, letting any company throw whatever they want up there is fucking stupid.

        Name any point in human history when letting companies do whatever the fuck they want in an area hasn’t fucked over the majority of people.

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        9 months ago

        as in the only high bandwidth communications network capable of doing things like this. starlink is this little thing called a monopoly and that is what caused this situation…

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          9 months ago

          Turns out it’s not very easy to just dump a ton of satellites and pop out a new network whenever you want.

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            9 months ago

            Seriously, the Starlink and Falcon 9 production is unlike anything else. Amazon and China will try to copy it, but it’ll take them way more time and money.