Sadly I blame everyone but starlink. It provides internet to rural areas that otherwise don’t have any viable high speed internet. Feds and states should have done anything to make sure these areas were being served. They weren’t and as a result $120/mo internet is reasonable.
Rural UK here. Tiny country in comparison to the US. Our village has no mobile signal. Our landline internet maxes out at 1mbit up and 10mbit down.
We are 3miles from a town with 15k people.
Why is there no infrastructure? I’m completely dependent on Starlink.
Fucked up the sky for all of us? Who is “all of us”? Most of “us” live in mega cities with so much light pollution it blots out the night sky. Everyone in these horrid concrete jungles has high speed internet and absolutely no connection to the stars. Many of these people have never even seen the stars.
The ones living outside of these cities are the minority, and now they have internet. An internet they have been promised to the tune of countless billions for a very long time. They see the stars every night. Starlink has not impacted their connection with the stars at all.
So I am genuinely curious. Who, exactly, is the “us” you refer to?
And why are you not rallying against the light pollution that has denied billions access to the stars for at least generations?
Remember when the US govt. provided incentives for major ISPs to upgrade\expand their service and they just kinda pocketed the money and did nothing? Imagine if they didn’t. We may not have had a need for starlink.
well maybe your right, maybe slowing down research and impeding the scientific progress of the human race is a small price to pay for getting Grandma in Bumfuck, Montana onto Facebook, and maybe these so called scientists should stop poking around the universe anyway, right ?
Isn’t Starlink a major player in getting high speed Internet to developing nations? I’m as mad as you about ruining the sky, but it’s not just Grandma it’s also entire villages in the global south.
Sadly I blame everyone but starlink. It provides internet to rural areas that otherwise don’t have any viable high speed internet. Feds and states should have done anything to make sure these areas were being served. They weren’t and as a result $120/mo internet is reasonable.
Rural UK here. Tiny country in comparison to the US. Our village has no mobile signal. Our landline internet maxes out at 1mbit up and 10mbit down. We are 3miles from a town with 15k people. Why is there no infrastructure? I’m completely dependent on Starlink.
You speak about the US but it fucked the sky up for the entire planet, for all of us.
Fucked up the sky for all of us? Who is “all of us”? Most of “us” live in mega cities with so much light pollution it blots out the night sky. Everyone in these horrid concrete jungles has high speed internet and absolutely no connection to the stars. Many of these people have never even seen the stars.
The ones living outside of these cities are the minority, and now they have internet. An internet they have been promised to the tune of countless billions for a very long time. They see the stars every night. Starlink has not impacted their connection with the stars at all.
So I am genuinely curious. Who, exactly, is the “us” you refer to?
And why are you not rallying against the light pollution that has denied billions access to the stars for at least generations?
That’s the main issue I see here, too. If you can provide this without the side effect, per-country, sure. Go ahead. Cool service.
This is such a shitty take.
He’s kinda right though…
Remember when the US govt. provided incentives for major ISPs to upgrade\expand their service and they just kinda pocketed the money and did nothing? Imagine if they didn’t. We may not have had a need for starlink.
Imagine 7.700.000.000 people not living in the US
Starlink has customers in 99 countries as of March. It’s a global service.
well maybe your right, maybe slowing down research and impeding the scientific progress of the human race is a small price to pay for getting Grandma in Bumfuck, Montana onto Facebook, and maybe these so called scientists should stop poking around the universe anyway, right ?
Isn’t Starlink a major player in getting high speed Internet to developing nations? I’m as mad as you about ruining the sky, but it’s not just Grandma it’s also entire villages in the global south.