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Starlink, Tesla, and SpaceX are not at all considered impossible. In fact, all three have active competition. I'd put mars colonization and hyperloop under the
by tejohnso 8y ago
Starlink, Tesla, and SpaceX are not at all considered impossible. In fact, all three have active competition.
I'd put mars colonization and hyperloop under the "widely considered impossible" category though.
- m0zg 8y agoSure, _now_ they have competition. But when he was starting out, they were all considered impossible. In fact, StarLink is still "impossible" to compete with. No one knows how to operate such an enormous satellite constellation, let alone do so profitably.
- gamblor956 8y agoStarlink hasn't succeeded yet. Is Elon now getting pre credit for things he hasn't even done?
- m0zg 8y agoTwo satellites are in orbit already, and SpaceX employees are playing multiplayer games over that link. It's way past the point of where it was "impossible" for SpaceX to accomplish. I _can't wait_ to ditch Frontier, and I'm sure there are millions of others like me just in the US alone.
- jcranmer 8y agoYou yourself said that the difficulty of Starlink is in operating a large satellite constellation. By that metric, two satellites in orbit tells you almost nothing about SpaceX's ability to actually overcome the difficulty.
- tbabb 8y agoI would posit that StarLink is impossible for anyone except SpaceX, who can get launches at-cost or for free as piggyback on other customers. Without that, I am sure that it looks economically impossible. The technological challenges are probably more tractable.
- jtl999 8y ago> SpaceX employees are playing multiplayer games over that link News to me, link?
- m0zg 8y agohttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-starlink-insight/musk-shakes-up-spacex-in-race-to-make-satellite-launch-window-sources-idUSKCN1N50FC https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-starlink-insight/m... Quote: "We were streaming 4k YouTube and playing ‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’ from Hawthorne to Redmond in the first week"
- jtl999 8y agoWow. When it launches publicly I'd like to get a satellite "modem " and test it myself. Although I'm sure others will before I do.
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