blast every single one of them shits out the sky. it's an eye sore and he's the small man.

Is there any evidence that Musk is right about Poland only paying "a tiny fraction of the cost"? Seems a strange comment to make

Twitters UI confuses me. Where do I start? What's the next one? And where's the end?

While I get the sentiment, another solution would put even more junk into low orbit, and cause even more problems for radio telescopes. There was already major concern about this with Starlink.

The questions are, what are the use cases, and can they be served by alternative technologies? When you answer that, then you can look into seeing if the extra latency to GEO is acceptable, or if terrestrial systems can do the job.

Eventually, I could see satellites becoming modules that attach to a frame that handles station keeping and such. That would keep LEO debris down. Would probably need Starship-level heavy lift to make that work, though, and nobody else has a rocket on that level except the chronically overbudget/overschedule SLS.

Calling someone else a small man really shows what kind of man he is

Was just discussing Eutelsat @ !stocks_eu@lemmy.world which has a big potentional to fill the Starlink gaps but also as a great investing opportunity!

I wouldnt be suprised if putin beat his ass. They both might be old decrepit fucks but putin has martial arts training at least. This response to one of my countries government officials is also what pushed me over to finally dropping as much american everything as possible.

Scheduled to arrived by 2030, but the EU is developing one and it's sounding pretty sweet: https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-space/iris2-secure-connectivity_en

There are already alternatives. Use a mixture of them so they compete with each other for your business. https://www.wired.com/story/starlink-replacement-ukraine-eutelsat-oneweb-project-kuiper-amazon-iris2-elon-musk/

As soon as possible ban Starlink for security, spying risk.

Rocket Lab are working on their solution;

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/updates/rocket-lab-announces-flatellite-a-new-satellite-designed-for-mass-manufacture-and-tailored-for-large-constellations/

Are we really allowing this American man belittle our institutions for his own profit?

This post was the final straw for me. I deleted all my accounts on non crucial US based services yesterday when I first saw it. I was already angry with what is going on but it was a shallow meme boycott consisting of only drinking kofola now instead of coca cola. It got serious yesterday. Unfortunately I still need to think about the strategy to quit Google since pretty much everything I do is connected to my Gmail.

Isn't it really frightening to let a super rich ketamine infused buffoon get this much power?

The irony of elon calling anyone else "small" is hilarious....

Rubio shouted at Musk, so poor Elon took it out on a foreign country's government official and called him "little man"

We DON'T need them or a replacement.
These things are horrible.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2527902/120-starlink-satellites-burn-up-in-january-2025

Put them down like rabid dogs.

Oligarchs used to act the part, and have the appearance of being "classy".

Now Oligarchs are just a bunch of 4chan users.

Wtf is: "Be quiet, small man"

That's not an elegant way of speaking.

These people are supposed to be "upper class"?

🤣

Starlink is just putting up cubesats with basic programming variations. The EU space agency can easily provide a competitive service that values freedom and democracy.

Hubris. This is hubris.

Nemesis will follow, motherfucker, the Moires don't fuck around.