“As public opinion continues to shift against Elon Musk, we need to think twice about … what goals we’re actually achieving by launching tens of thousands of additional satellites into orbit.”
In a new piece for TIME, I outline the problems with Starlink and question whether the tradeoffs are too high for what it really delivers.
https://time.com/6250118/elon-musk-should-not-be-in-charge-of-the-night-sky/
Holy shit.
The Starlink terms of service do in fact mention Mars in section 12 ("Governing Law").
If Jim Jones could gain enough political power to install San Francisco mayor George Moscone and convince more than 900 people to move to the South American nation of Guyana, where they either took their own lives or were killed, then I suppose another charismatic sociopath could do something similar.
@johnlogic I think the suspicions about Moscone are likely over-stated (All the evidence available is unsubstantiated claims by Temple members and Moscone's contender), but there are plenty of example of cults that resulted in many deaths, and it wouldn't surprise me if Musk ended up on that list eventually.
Much depends on definition, but I would include the many people who would probably be alive right now if they weren't foolish enough to listen to Trump.
A text search for Moscone in the linked source--an archived archived transcript of a PBS documentary--made for an interesting quick read.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090314080911/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/jonestown/filmmore/pt.html
Moscone was before my time. But his killer, Dan White, also made a martyr of Harvey Milk, gave us "the Twinkie defense", and propelled Feinstein's political career. That was 9 days after Jonestown.
In the coming months, Ukraine will receive more than 10,000 Starlink satellite internet systems from Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) to help counter the consequences of the Russian attacks on the energy infrastructure that cause power outages across
@parismarx I can see some argument for a modest satellite internet constellation, much like there was a case for $5 per minute Iridium.
The problem is that Starlink is a comical oversolution to the fact we have no coherent and national broadband strategy, so it's easier to launch hundreds of rockets into space than to cut through the red tape of old duddies who object to their tulips being dug up to run fibre, and local telco/cablecos who want to ration out the future one drop at a time.
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