I was part of the Beta testing for this and I will tell you, it's a game changer. My phone connected to Star link with absolutely no problem and it worked very well. T-Mobile has seen the writing on the wall and is partnering with Star Link. Every provider I will tell you is shitting over this.
Same thing when the automobile was invented. The buggy and buggy whip manufactures all cried because the dangers of the automobile to stop the production. Get with the program and keep up or be left behind unemployed.
Fun fact: Buggies and buggy whips are by no means obsolete. A whole lot of people drive their horses and ponies for fun and compete with them at shows and other events. Many older folks who can no longer ride love driving their horses instead.
dude, there are entire schools training horseshoers now for all the show and pleasure and (yes) working horses still out there. https://americanfarriers.org/page/schools
Correct, and for some reason anons on here, specifically mods, have a fascination with Musk and the inability to question his actions or past.
In my opinion, we are witnessing the absolute full control system being implemented right in front of our eyes at an alarming pace. Starlink, Ai everywhere, Flock cameras, robots, digital ID, palantir, etc.
I was part of the Beta testing for this and I will tell you, it's a game changer. My phone connected to Star link with absolutely no problem and it worked very well. T-Mobile has seen the writing on the wall and is partnering with Star Link. Every provider I will tell you is shitting over this.
was this a normal mobile phone? or is a special phone needed for 2-way comms with satellites? Thanks.
Samsung s24 when I was in the program. So a regular phone.
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Then 1 company goes down and all of the internet goes down.
OR, one company starts the new technology, other companies say "Hey! You are stealing our customers!" and they fight for survival and keep up.
What? so they start sending satellites into orbit too? Might be a little hard to keep up with that one.
Then 1 company has full control. But hey we trust Elon right!!!
Apple is a monopoly as well so who knows what will happen next. Just remember that nothing said or texted on your phone is secure.
"Directly from orbit to the phone in your pocket.
For over a century, connectivity followed the same blueprint. Build a tower. Run a cable. Expand the network one piece of ground at a time.
Coverage went where the money was. Where the population density justified the investment.
Everywhere else got silence.
Four billion people still don’t have reliable internet.
Not because the technology doesn’t exist. Because no one could justify building a tower where they live.
Connectivity was never a technology problem. It was a geography problem disguised as one.
Musk: “The phones that are able to use the spectrum that was acquired probably start shipping in around two years.”
Two years. Then the phone in your hand connects straight to space.
No tower required. No carrier infrastructure between you and the signal.
The entire telecom industry was built on one assumption. That connectivity requires ground infrastructure.
Every carrier. Every contract. Every coverage map. All products of that assumption.
Starlink just bypassed it from orbit.
From orbit, every point on Earth is equidistant.
The word “remote” only exists because connectivity was built from the ground up.
From space, there is no remote. There is no coverage gap. There is no place on Earth harder to reach than any other.
The ground decides who gets connected based on where they are.
The sky doesn’t know the difference.
Human potential was always distributed evenly across the planet. Access to information never was.
The gap between those two facts is the greatest waste in human history.
We spent a century deciding who deserved access to information based on where they happened to be born.
Musk just made that question obsolete from 550 kilometers above the answer."
https://nitter.net/i/status/2079353662871400665
One link to find them, one link to route them and in the darkness bind them.
The centralization of comms.
That is a very real concern, yes. This is cool and terrifying all at once.
Same thing when the automobile was invented. The buggy and buggy whip manufactures all cried because the dangers of the automobile to stop the production. Get with the program and keep up or be left behind unemployed.
Telegraph people were pissed off about phones i bet,
Look out. There is one one here that wants to argue! Kek
Video killed the radio star.
Kek
Jess, jess it did! Kek
Fun fact: Buggies and buggy whips are by no means obsolete. A whole lot of people drive their horses and ponies for fun and compete with them at shows and other events. Many older folks who can no longer ride love driving their horses instead.
There are entire companies devoted to making carriages and other horse-drawn vehicles. Here is just one: https://frontierequestrian.com/product-category/carriages/robert-carriages-made-to-order/
And "buggy whips:" https://www.fleck-co.de/products
Not like it was when the mode of transportation was a horse. Blacksmiths was once a necessity then also but now is just a hobby.
dude, there are entire schools training horseshoers now for all the show and pleasure and (yes) working horses still out there. https://americanfarriers.org/page/schools
So you are telling me there are as many buggy manufacturers TODAY as there were back in the 1800? dude!!!!
you mean the US Taxpayers just spent $17 million*
We really need to get this understood. Elon Musk is a government contractor, meaning we are the ones paying for whatever project he is running
Correct, and for some reason anons on here, specifically mods, have a fascination with Musk and the inability to question his actions or past.
In my opinion, we are witnessing the absolute full control system being implemented right in front of our eyes at an alarming pace. Starlink, Ai everywhere, Flock cameras, robots, digital ID, palantir, etc.
and Trump has been dead silent about all of it.
Of all the things he is rightly vocal about, the silence on these things is fucking deafening.
Let me guess routing through satellites, nice and then AI SEEING ALL Let that SINK IN the possibilities are unlimited?