• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    1 hour ago

    Give them internet via a geo stationary satellite.

    You only need a few in a space where there is a lot of room, and it won’t bug anyone, contrary to the shit show we have with the countless starlink satellites visibly zipping over while working hard to make the Kessler Syndrome a thing.

    I’m not even talking about the pollution caused by those rocket launches

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      54 minutes ago

      Give them internet via a geo stationary satellite.

      We have that already. Its comparatively very expensive, and also very very high latency simply because for the speed-of-light. The satellite at GEO sits at 20k kilometers. That by itself introduces 250ms of latency each way. So a 500ms latency is not uncommon for GEO satellite internet. Also, GEO satellites are very expensive because of how much energy (deltaV) it takes to get the satellite out that far and for how long they have to operate to make that money back.