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[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Yeah I'm going to agree with you on this one. It blows my mind that as a species we have changed the night sky. When I was a child seeing a satellite dart across the sky was exciting because it was as rare as a shooting star. Now I look up and see a satellite every few minutes. That said, there have been a few times recently that Star Link was the only method of communication I've had in remote areas. It has been very helpful. I think as poorly of Musk as much as the next person but I can at least recognize the ingenuity SpaceX and Star Link.

[-] neblem@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Really Starlink should be absorbed into and ran by the UN. We only have so much LEO to use, one company is bound to become a monopoly and LEO is the world's not any nation's property.

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago

The UN has no teeth by design and there's a lot of money to be made privately, what makes you think it would happen?

[-] machineLearner@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Fuck the UN.

Seriously - when you choose a country with vile fundamental human rights abuses as the head of the human rights commission...

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Perhaps not the UN, but I agree that I am uncomfortable with Elon Musk at the helm. I'd prefer to see an international non-profit take control. Even just a regular boring board of directors, at least then it would be the devil that we know.

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