• CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Meanwhile SpaceX spends billions launching thousands of satellites into space and wreck the environment just so people can doomscroll their slop. When all we need are governments building some basic infrastructure like fiber internet for a fraction of the money.

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      7 months ago

      Australia almost did this right with the National Broadband Network.

      Unfortunately, it was then sabotaged by the government after an election changed the majority party.

      It seems to be back on track after wasting an extraordinary amount of time and money by installing copper lines, just to completely replace them with the fiber lines that were in the original plan.

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            7 months ago

            Maybe but like from a networking perspectice it is harder to getndistance on, requires largwrs ducts, shorted cable drumming. There is no economy in which it makes sense, even the actual product would need heavy… yeah maybe a government would do tat if they were backwards.

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      7 months ago

      I agree fiber is better but starlink isn’t bad for the environment, it’s bad for astronomy though sadly.

      • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
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        7 months ago

        Those satellites are designed for a 5 year lifespan before they deorbit and burn up all those metals in our atmosphere… it’s not great