Hubris. This is hubris.
Nemesis will follow, motherfucker, the Moires don’t fuck around.
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”?
🤣
Disgusting. Why the FUCK would you talk to our allies this way? The guy is a polish government official.. (I mean obviously I know why, Elon is a megalomaniac).
“Small man”??? WTF. I hate it.
If America was a real country this guy would’ve immediately been removed from any and all companies he runs.
Does SpaceX not have a board?
SpaceX bggest customer by far is the US gvernment. Obviously that is run by Musk, so they will not fire him.
But why? Why did t NASA do this. Instead government funded it and a private citizen controls it and gets all the benefits.
I think you answered your own question.
They’re all his pawns
But what SpaceX does is so cool, and for the greater good of the humanity!
/s
Don’t let the fascists fool you, there are alternatives to Starlink. Eutelsat in France, Telesat in Canada and Inmarsat in the UK, just to name a few examples.
Why is starlink being used, do you know?
It’s faster, cheaper, and on the tech side more reliable (definitely not politically reliable though).
My guess is better coverage and latency with its sheer number of satellites.
They use low earth orbit, which require them to use more satellites, but lowered latency.
Technically, and this is purely semantics, coverage is the major downside to starlink. They are faster, though.
The coverage of satellites has an exponential factor of the distance of that satellite to earth. If you had the satellite further out then its signal could reach a wider area before being cut off by the curvature of the earth. However, as the distance increases, so does latency.
Now, I don’t know, but I would assume its the latency. Starlink has a (impressively) low ping of < 100ms, while existing alternatives usually have 600ms+. Now, that’s only relevant if they are using it for stuff like flying drones.
I think you’d notice half a second even just browsing the Web.
TBH I think any more low orbit telecom satellite arrays than we already have are just going to become a huge problem in the following decades.
This has been commented before.
Starlink flies at a very low altitude, meaning relatively high atmospheric drag, and a very short period of time before their sats deorbit if they go dead, less than ten years.
It’s nowhere near the problem everyone makes it out to be.
Official statemens claim they run for about 5 years, deorbit anywhere, and do NOT always burn up in reentry.
Starlink is already being a problem currently, and it’s not even fully deployed
Elon is an absolute clown there are alternatives they just aren’t as robust at this time.
This post has more upvotes on Lemmy than Reddit
Let my add one more then!
It’s time for Europe to finally get their own solutions.
Here’s one: https://www.skydsl.eu/en-DE/Personal/Satellite-internet/Tariffs/Private/Overview
Seems to be about half as expensive as Starlink. 700ms latency though. So you won’t be gaming skydsl.
It’s called One Web by Eutelsat. Same latency and reliability, but less Mb/s about 70 Mb/s (and does it matter much for the few Kb packets to relay small amounts of data?).
Ah, the full Hitler, a bold move let’s see how it plays out.
“My starlink system”. He’s literally a walking, talking “you made this? I made this” meme.
I get what you’re saying, but I refer to my car as…my car. I didn’t turn a wrench in its construction, nor did I design it, but it’s still mine.
Except for the fact that he doesn’t make anything, he pays people who do, then takes the credit for it. Is his way with everything: companies, gaming profiles…
I reread and still don’t see what you’re quoting.
“I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat over Ukraine and my starlink system is the backbone of the Ukrainian army.”
It’s the first sentence of the quoted tweet.
My bad.
The interior, initial Musk tweet. It’s a snippet in the middle of a sentence.
When the war was turning in Ukraine’s favor and they were about to push into Russia, he shut it off and crippled their counter offensive. I remember. Fuck Elon and fuck starlink.
Oh no I’m hearing from people that wa a technical glitch.
Which is why Starlink needs to be confiscated and managed by NATO. Somebody has to operate it, and it should be an entity who is on the side of Freedom amd Democracy.
Not push into Russia, but attempting to retake Crimea.
They’re presumably talking about the Kursk Oblast.Edit: probably not, see responses.IIRC that was long after that. The initial shutoff of Starlink happened around the explosions targeting the Crimean bridge and them introducing their naval drones.
Exactly, he basically messed up the offensive to retake Crimea.
Close. There was a geobarrier that he refused to remove. Because attacks against Russia are aggression.
Musk and Starlink aren’t major difference makers in this war. It’s a years-long slog where the main takeaway is “cheap and reliable in volume is more than a match for the newest and fanciest.” It hasn’t been on the verge of turning in Ukraine’s favor since the end of Russia’s initial push towards Kyiv.
I have a buddy who’s been eating/sleeping/breathing this war and, hands down, cheap and reliable FPV drones have changed how warfare is done. It’s the main reason why trench warfare came back, and one of the things that fucked Russia up in the mid-term. Apparently they have a long-standing strategy that involves armor and something something something that my buddy explained and I don’t remember, but because there’s always drones watching every inch of the front at all times, Ukraine was able to bust that strat by being able to dial in artillery fast and early. At least, that’s how I’m remembering what was explained.
cheap and reliable in volume
cheap and reliable FPV drones have changed how warfare is done
We’re in agreement here. I’m not saying new technology is useless, I’m saying there aren’t any wonder weapons (or wonder communication systems) that would have given Ukraine a decisive advantage.
Long-term, it’s still a matter of which side can outproduce the other when it comes to the cheap and reliable equipment we’re talking about. At this point that’s clearly Russia.
It’s not rly the ability of drones to observe that makes them so strong, but the ability to attack. Russia’s air defense is unable to stop a drone swarm, especially because its something the world hasn’t yet seen. And if two drones armed with explosives take down a bigass helicopter, that’s a massive win.
A few weeks ago, Ukraine decimated an oil refinery on russian territory with a swarm of drones of which only 40% were taken down by the russian air defense.
I think it might be more fair to say that it isn’t just the ability to observe. Drones have absolutely transformed the modern battlefield.
Is that why you guys are welding cages on your tanks?
“Everyone who disagrees with me is a Russian” was ran into the ground five years ago, get new material.
But yes, a steel cage offering significant protection against much more modern technology is a great example of what I’m talking about.
That would be Eutelsat, but it is smaller in scale (at the moment) and therefore more expensive. It’s also said to be less userfriendly, but that should be possible to fix.
Also a reminder that everyone who is not a Musk sheep should leave Twitter.
