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Forests, the Arctic, much of Africa, Asia, every ocean?
by nexuist 7y ago
Forests, the Arctic, much of Africa, Asia, every ocean?
- monk_e_boy 7y agoVallies. Villages. Beaches.... Has this person never traveled?
- runarberg 7y agoUsually you are able to save the tasks that require fast internet connection for later. If you find your self on a slow internet connection while uploading a large video file, you can hold that up until you find somewhere that has a fast connection. You also often have the option of lowering the bandwidth requirements (e.g. switch of the video call for a voice call at a lower quality). I find fast internet a luxury rather then anything while traveling.
- nickik 7y agoAnd you can also not use wireless ever until you can connect to a cable. What kind of logic is that? Sure, humanity has existed before global internet. But now that we can have it, there are 100s of reason to do so. You see it as a luxury, but so is the ability to buy clean water or even get it of the tab. Things that are luxury in the beginning get cheap enough so many can use it and that whats called progresses.
- logosmonkey 7y agoMy mom's house in rural Arkansas. I mean basically if you live outside of a large city you have 1 choice of internet access and it's usually hot garbage and over priced.
- 6nf 7y agoAbout 90% of Australia too
- positr0n 7y agoI don’t think it will be available in the Arctic. https://streamable.com/3lbqj https://streamable.com/3lbqj
- runarberg 7y agoIs there a reason you need fast internet connection in forrests/on the Arctic/while sailing in the middle of the ocean?[1] Is there a reason why much of Africa or Asia can’t invest in similar infrastructure as Europe has done to provide internet to where people live? 1: Maybe it could be handy to transmit large amount of science data I suppose, but they seemed to be able to cope with this limitation while photographing the black holes
- sigstoat 7y ago> Is there a reason you need fast internet connection in forrests/on the Arctic/while sailing in the middle of the ocean?[1] is there a reason you need fast internet at home? now imagine being some place that isn't home. > Is there a reason why much of Africa or Asia can’t invest in similar infrastructure as Europe has done to provide internet to where people live? crushing poverty? come on, just tell them to eat cake while you're at it.
- runarberg 7y ago> is there a reason you need fast internet at home? now imagine being some place that isn't home. My internet needs away from home are vastly different then at home, so I don’t understand how this is an answer. > crushing poverty? It is highly likely that the same poverty is going to prevent locals from using Starlink. Besides lacking infrastructure in large parts of Africa and Asia has often been the result of bad policy, or wars, not poverty (or poverty as a result of war). A lot of African nations are catching up on their infrastructure projects, and I see no reason why they will skip internet connectivity as they build up their infrastructure (given that most African nations have infinitely better policy—and a lot fewer wars—now then say 30 years ago).
- kirrent 7y agoI used to live on a boat. It'd be nice to have access to the internet when I do so again even coastally. I can't even imagine how much of a boon getting internet access across an ocean would be. Not only to help with boredom, but also to get heaps of up to date weather observation and prediction data to do routing.