Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf
Comments due March 6.
I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.
You are way more optimistic than I.
They'd just argue over who is responsible and do nothing until we're Kessler'd.
@shaknais @sundogplanets more pragmatic, if half internet crash and some comunication become imposible, the pressure from both international entity and their own citizen will be so high they cannot do nothing.
The cost on the other end will cripple their economy, because clearning space will not be cheap
Most of the internet is underground, not over your head. There would be little impact on that front.
And what sattelites there are, are at different orbit heights than the proposal, limiting the impact further.
@shaknais actually some internet comunication are handled by satelite, and many TV channel too, but yeah majority are sea cable.
but the GSM network use it quite often actually so goodbye 4G and 5G in many region, the tower will still emit it, but it might be isolated from the network (as not all tower in all country are fibered).
Whilst SpaceX and OneWeb are "excited" abput satelite in 5G - its not actually deployed anywhere at all, yet. Just promises since 2020.
4G satelite systems are backhaul, and cover about 0.5% of deployed systems. The kind of places where bad cloud cover means you don't have satelite, either. Cat3 remote type places.
Musk will probably notice if we lost 4G sat, and make some pissy tweets. Most people won't even notice.
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