SpaceX can fuck right off with that plan.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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Business owned by greedy manbaby says to give money to business also owned by greedy manbaby. Hmmm....
Don’t forget Nazi
Musk = POS Nazi.
I have a better idea: don’t do that.
Low orbit satellites will never replace fiber because physics of latency, bandwidth and error correction.
As far as things go today well never need less fiber. Even if we cover the sky with satellites eventually we'd need to upgrade to fiber because its literally impossible to beat. Except for scifi tech like quantum entanglement networks which might not even be possible or practical and wouldn't need the satelites anyway.
As an infrastructure bet it makes absolutely zero sense except for covering rare niches like war zones or oceans.
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I’m so glad other countries are coming up with their own satellites just for the expressed interest to boycott musk.
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What's dumb about this statement is all Elon would have to do is market to all the places where broadband companies refuse to go and be affordable. tRump already killed the rural broadband initiatives. There's literally no competition and word-of-mouth could probably pull in more who are unhappy with their broadband provider.
However, capitalism and greed are cancers that know no limit...
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I would burn the money before giving it to the nazi
I sure am sick of super fast, stable internet connections. Let’s all get something that fucks up when it’s cloudy.
I say that Emma Stone should divorce her husband and marry me instead.
Here's a better idea: nationalize SpaceX and tell Musk to go fuck himself first. Not going to happen? Then no grant money.
Goat says garden needs more carrots.
We should also dump passenger trains for...electric car tunnels?
Yes. Lets tie our expansion of desperately needed internet access in rural America to massively carbon emitting rocket launches. Thats definitely not gonna back fire on us.
You cannot actually serve hundreds of millions in the US even if you invested the 75B it would cost to give every household a satellite it just can't support the bandwidth.
Fuck. That.
Gee, I wonder why they would do that.
Musk is still hitting the special K.
SpaceX can suck my ass
katy says spacex should go fuck themselves and go bankrupt