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Did you just read the first few items and comment? How is building a global satellite network enabling internet access to everyone on earth boring or a "rich-wh
by narak 8y ago
Did you just read the first few items and comment? How is building a global satellite network enabling internet access to everyone on earth boring or a "rich-white-guy problem"? Or A/C for the developing world?
- notyourday 8y agoSatellite network for all the people in the world is a rich white guy problem -- it may not be profitable, but damn I am going to have satellites!
- narak 8y agoI'm not a rich white guy, so if I work on this, what kind of problem is it then?
- notyourday 8y agoIf you fund someone who works on internet over satellites project you are working on the rich white guy problem -- the rest do not care if internet comes via satellites -- they just want internet. But digging trenches and laying fiber is not sexy enough for a rich white guy -- at least definitely not as sexy as say "I have a constellation of 800 satellites that deliver Internet!"
- narak 8y agohttps://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c37-cartosat-2-series-satellite/isro-nano-satellites https://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c37-cartosat-2-series-satellite... What about these guys? So you think digging tens of millions of miles of fiber trenches to bring gigabit internet to everyone is a more capex efficient solution than a few hundred nano-satellites in LEO blanketing the earth with connectivity? It will be low bandwidth but enough for farmers (what most people in the world do) to check weather, crop yield predictions, and market spot prices, or do remote banking from their village, or check medical information.
- notyourday 8y agoYes, it will be much more efficient.
- icebraining 8y agoGood luck digging trenches to connect all 17 000 islands in Indonesia to the Internet.
- notyourday 8y agoGood luck getting people on those islands behind the birds able to afford to pay even pennies for that internet. Catskills, NY, however...