If musk started free speech platform, Congress would block the DOD from using SpaceX, and remove a federal subsidies for tesla car and musk's solar panels. Suddenly green electricity would be subject to a premium tax
Elon thinks much bigger. He's not working on a new platform, he's working on a new internet with no censorship even in China or Iran: Starlink Satelite internet https://www.starlink.com/
Starlink is still going to have to connect to other ISPs. It can make internet available to anyone with a dish, but you can still be limited and prevented from connecting to parts of the internet on the legacy platforms.
You sound like you know about this stuff. Can you outline what are the areas that are still vulnerable to censorship and have no current “workaround” if I was using Starlink? In other words, if Elons goal was to give censorship free internet, what is stopping this without a current workaround? For example, i know they want to shut down Gab, but it looks like as of today, they are having trouble shutting them down. Could Elon and Starlink work with the same services that Gab does?
The problem with Sat internet is that there is lag going to the sat and back down. About 500 ms each way and that is at the speed of light. Great for GAB or Signal, but not multi-player games.
The problem with the Sat internet you are imagining is it’s in geosynchronous orbit, 25000 miles away. Starlink is lower than ISS even, about 210 miles. The speed of light in fiber is just around half of the speed of light in a vacuum, so going straight up to the satellite, through the starlink mesh network and directly back down is about twice as fast as you can propagate the signal on the ground with fiber.
Look into Starlink, as the other commenters are saying* this sat internet is very different with much shorter distances than geostationary.
People are running it now in remote locations across Northern portions of America and recording 31ms to 94ms ping times with numbers dropping every fresh launch as more satellites populate the ring.
starlink is not geostationary, its low-earth orbit. that means its very, very close, but as a result each micro-sat only covers a small area. Since its both a small "cell" + is orbiting, starlink is really a "constellation" of microsats that zoom overhead.
The negatives are that the antennae on the consumer's side has to be a more complicated phased array antenna. But on the flip side you can get down to 20ms latency since the satellites are so much closer.
You’re thinking of geostationary satellites, where lag is a big concern due to how incredibly far away the satellite needs to be. These are LEO satellites which are way, way closer to the earth and therefore can have less lag
If musk started free speech platform, Congress would block the DOD from using SpaceX, and remove a federal subsidies for tesla car and musk's solar panels. Suddenly green electricity would be subject to a premium tax
Elon thinks much bigger. He's not working on a new platform, he's working on a new internet with no censorship even in China or Iran: Starlink Satelite internet https://www.starlink.com/
Starlink is still going to have to connect to other ISPs. It can make internet available to anyone with a dish, but you can still be limited and prevented from connecting to parts of the internet on the legacy platforms.
There's always ways around right?
Mesh internet
You sound like you know about this stuff. Can you outline what are the areas that are still vulnerable to censorship and have no current “workaround” if I was using Starlink? In other words, if Elons goal was to give censorship free internet, what is stopping this without a current workaround? For example, i know they want to shut down Gab, but it looks like as of today, they are having trouble shutting them down. Could Elon and Starlink work with the same services that Gab does?
That’s fine—every non leftist idiot gets on the Star web and the lefties can have the soyweb
The problem with Sat internet is that there is lag going to the sat and back down. About 500 ms each way and that is at the speed of light. Great for GAB or Signal, but not multi-player games.
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I get your sentiment but I think we have bigger concerns right now than video games.
This. I’ll use the gaming laptop for games.
The problem with the Sat internet you are imagining is it’s in geosynchronous orbit, 25000 miles away. Starlink is lower than ISS even, about 210 miles. The speed of light in fiber is just around half of the speed of light in a vacuum, so going straight up to the satellite, through the starlink mesh network and directly back down is about twice as fast as you can propagate the signal on the ground with fiber.
Look into Starlink, as the other commenters are saying* this sat internet is very different with much shorter distances than geostationary.
People are running it now in remote locations across Northern portions of America and recording 31ms to 94ms ping times with numbers dropping every fresh launch as more satellites populate the ring.
starlink is not geostationary, its low-earth orbit. that means its very, very close, but as a result each micro-sat only covers a small area. Since its both a small "cell" + is orbiting, starlink is really a "constellation" of microsats that zoom overhead.
The negatives are that the antennae on the consumer's side has to be a more complicated phased array antenna. But on the flip side you can get down to 20ms latency since the satellites are so much closer.
You’re thinking of geostationary satellites, where lag is a big concern due to how incredibly far away the satellite needs to be. These are LEO satellites which are way, way closer to the earth and therefore can have less lag
The Glitter Band.
Teslas dont get federal subsidies any longer.