I hate T-Mobile, but I really hate Elon Musk. So while I’m not happy for T-Mobile, I do enjoy watching Musk suffer in any way whatsoever.
In a fight between Elon Musk and traditional telecoms, I’m cheering for the fight
Musk yes, but there are quite a few Ukrainian servicemen not happy, I think.
Oh, so that’s why my internet went out for 4 hours yesterday. RIP.
Dang, I was hoping there was a competitor. I’m boycotting Musk companies as best I can
Iris2 and Eutselsat OneWeb are currently massively expanding their network - for European coverage first,though, but with the explicit goal to be a Musk alternative.
Yeah, sadly SpaceX and Tesla are both very promising companies primarily held back by Elon Musk.
I’ll upvote anything bad happening to musk.
Starlinks are in too low an orbit to cause Kessler Syndrome.
Learn something new every day, thanks!
but they pollute the night sky visually and that’s nearly as bad.
I mean… it’s not. One problem solves itself over time if not touched, the other is permanent and prevents us from leaving the planet.
I mean, no it’s not.
Kessler syndrome is about a chain reaction that destroys everything in orbit and keeps us from accessing space for years.
Ruining your view is not “nearly as bad”. That makes you sound like one of those folks on Martha’s Vineyard, opposing offshore wind turbines that local communities desperately need, because they’ll “ruin the view”.
The night sky is also polluted by your home’s lighting and car headlights but that doesn’t seem to be a problem for most people.
yeah, you can’t turn off your home’s lighting, additionally everyone lives in cities anyway, so it’s moot!
Is that accurate though? Assume a satellite is in a decaying orbit (thus too low to contribute to Kessler syndrome on its own) and another satellite is in a different orbit eccentricity-wise but they both collide. Are we certain that none of the pieces from the collision would acquire enough speed to become boloids that contribute to Kessler syndrome?
Time to go down the rabbit hole that is orbital mechanics for me again. Byeeee lol
Edit: looks like the lowest orbit for starlink’s first shell is at 550km which is very much above VLEO and would definitely be a factor in Kessler Syndrome.
Most starlink satellites are set to deorbit themselves upon failure to avoid this. However the de orbiting could still fail and then it should take about a year or so to deorbit itself?
So it looks like there is a low possibility of it initiating Kessler syndrome. But it’s not negligible.
A year is actually quite a short time (in terms of deorbiting).
As for your previous question yes a collision at starlink orbit could send some shrapnel to higher orbit planes however a majority would be in highly eccentric orbits that would decay quickly on the low end.
The issue would be a starlink collision then hitting something in a higher orbit causing Kessler syndrome in that orbit. The odds of this are still next to zero but never zero.
For your question, no. There’s no way for an object to have an orbit that doesn’t intersect the same altitude where an impulse happened. They could be knocked into an eccentric orbit, but it at least has to have the lowest point at the highest point of the Starlink network.
This is not to say it can’t hit something else after that changes the perigee at a later point in it’s orbit, thus lifting it higher. For a single collusion though, no, at least with the collision alone.
HugesNet has low throughput but it’s pretty reliable. I had high hopes for Starlink but it seems to be a dud.
It’s been over a year since the last big Starlink outage. That’s a lot better than my old DSL provider.
That’s a ridiculously low bar in 2025. What even is twisted pair DSL??
I live in a country praised for its IT industry, digital government and whatever
I got off ADSL in 2024. Fucking lol. I don’t even live on a farm or anything. Lucky to receive fiber though, now they want to prioritize 5G home connections instead.
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Got a nice fibre-optic connection, have you? Try throttling that to <10Mbps and you might understand what some people have to deal with. DSL at 10Mbps from an evil corporation, or 150Mbps from an evil corporation, hmmmmm, what a choice.
It’s easy to shit on the owner, but have some sympathy for folk who don’t have a reasonable alternative.
Hear hear!
Everyone is like “Move out of the city, live a life closer to nature” but also “If you use the only service that truly enables that you suck!”
I’ll take what I can get until something as good or better comes along.
good hope it stays broken forever
Thank you so much ! /s Come and join me where the options are many and the price is so cheap. /s /s
If you’d like to experience what it’s like to access the internet sans Starlink, perhaps you could just throttle your modem to 8 or even 10 Mbps. Yes? No? Then consider how lucky you are, and have some empathy for those of us who have little or no alternative.
