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> starlink is beyond awesome as a way to get internet but really suffers from lack of capacity "at scale". Keep Surely it pays for itself if they can sign up u
by teruakohatu 4y ago
> starlink is beyond awesome as a way to get internet but really suffers from lack of capacity "at scale".
Keep
Surely it pays for itself if they can sign up users as fast as they can scale? But if capital is the problem, maybe Starlink should be IPO'd the old fashioned way, to raise capital rather than cash out investors.
- ncmncm 4y agoTo IPO, they would need to release information that might make the whole enterprise seem less tenable. And, if it turns a profit they would be less able to siphon the money off to private projects. (No, not for a Mars colony. There will not be one.)
- suoduandao2 4y ago>(No, not for a Mars colony. There will not be one.) Well, not with that attitude >:(
- nn_m 4y ago
- ncmncm 4y agoWith or without, makes no difference. Mars is wholly unsuitable as a place to colonize, and Starship would anyway be far from adequate to attempt it, by at least two orders of magnitude. Starship might suffice to maintain a moon base, after the model of McMurdo Station, albeit radically more expensive. But that would be an end in itself, not any sort of staging point. There is noplace to go from there. O'Neill cans make better sense. After aneutronic p-11B fusion is mastered in some future century, O'Neill cans out in the Kuiper Belt will be a place for humanity to expand. The inner solar system is a dump, Earth excepted.
- hef19898 4y agoStarlink seems to be as much real business as a way for SpaceX to raise money.
- datavirtue 4y agoWinner!