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Starlink soars: SpaceX’s satellite internet surprises analysts with $6.6 billion revenue projection
Space News ^ | Sandra Erwin

Posted on 05/11/2024 8:35:56 AM PDT by srmanuel

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To: srmanuel

Just starting my third year on Starlink, and since the only other alternative is wireless and Starlink is two orders of magnitude faster, it really isn’t a difficult choice. So far it’s been outstanding, and I do not have an ideal location. It was intended for exactly this sort of rural, underserved market.


21 posted on 05/11/2024 10:07:44 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Flaming Conservative

I would say, So what ??? If you think it’s safer to live outside of an urban area in the rural areas of America, lack of internet access might have been a reason to not make the jump, now that is not the case, if you combine fast internet service with reliable cell phone service to remote areas all over the USA and the world that is a major game changer.


22 posted on 05/11/2024 10:24:58 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: srmanuel

Residential plan $120 month


23 posted on 05/11/2024 10:32:02 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: srmanuel

Just Starlink’s non-iOS/ Android service seems to get so many, not-so-good reviews; the iOS etc service is well-rated. Any idea why?


24 posted on 05/11/2024 10:38:04 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: srmanuel

I love my starlink and am just about to get one for my wifes house when the remodel is finished, 2 weeks!


25 posted on 05/11/2024 10:39:06 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Carriage Hill

Personally, I think many of the bad reviews are planted by rivals Internet providers and people who make a living as contrarians and post negative reviews for clicks and people who have unrealistic views of the service.


26 posted on 05/11/2024 11:01:56 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: eyeamok

why does your wife have a separate house


27 posted on 05/11/2024 11:34:40 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: imabadboy99

We have 2 houses on the same street. Do you ever wish you could just tell your Wife to go home and leave you alone?? I can!


28 posted on 05/11/2024 11:58:30 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: srmanuel

A widespread EMP attack would require nuclear weapons and would constitute a strategic nuclear attack against the US directly threatening vital US interests. US defense policy is pretty clear. The betting man would go all in on the per being a goner.


29 posted on 05/11/2024 1:11:45 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: srmanuel

As a remote user it is a game changer. Just did as speed test as I was typing 200 Mbps. That is faster than Verizon FIOS in my metropolitan area house [I could up it at a premium price that is much higher than Starlink]. Local LOS ISP is 10Mbps, and it is unreliable with constant interuptions if you are doing cell phone over WiFi [we don’t have cell connection here either.

And setup was an absolute breeze - connect the wire from the antenna to the router, and the wire from the router to the PS and the wire from the PS to the wall plug - all different and all only go in one way. Download the Starlink app on your phone. Look for the Starlink WiFi connection, connect to it. Then your Starlink app tells you everything else to do in an easy step by step - very clear - process. It takes 10 minutes. I could do it again in about 4 minutes.

And the router is a dream - very good line of site range and you can set up a simple mesh in your home buying extra mesh routers that are a lot cheaper than a lot of other companies.

Couldn’t be happier.


30 posted on 05/11/2024 1:24:05 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

Let’s say the EMP warheads were launched from Submarines off the east and west coasts in international waters. No country has any defense for that, going further, what if the EMP effects were only along the east and west coasts maybe 100 miles inland, it would be devastating and yes, we could respond with a nuclear response, then what at that point it’s Armageddon.

Russia and China likely not going to risk the response, what about Iran or North Korea, to say they don’t have the ability is naive IMO, they can get the ability from Russia or China.


31 posted on 05/11/2024 1:31:55 PM PDT by srmanuel
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To: srmanuel

Fortunately those countries don’t have those capabilities and Russia and China are not about to give them those capabilities, and just because they are sublaunched and only kills half the US population is not a prescription against Argmageddon against the perpetrator and for something like that we would know who the perpetrator is.


32 posted on 05/11/2024 1:42:21 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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You think, North Korea is dirt poor but somehow managed to build an ICBM capable of hitting the US mainland.

To think that China didn’t play a part in that is naive and to think if North Korea has the capability, then Iran probably has the same capability.

My point, is technology can’t be bottled up and kept to 2-3 countries, countries like Pakistan has nuclear weapons, at one time South Africa has nuclear weapons, there is no reason to think North Korea or Iran don’t have the same technology.


33 posted on 05/11/2024 1:51:00 PM PDT by srmanuel
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And my point is that the United States has weapons and doctrine in place to deal with someone who launches a massive [nuclear] EMP strike that shuts down significant portions of the US economy thereby killing a large number of Americans. A massive nuclear strike is a massive nuclear strike whether they blow up the US Capital Region and all of lower Manhattan or whether they just take out enough infrastructure that American civilization ceases to function as we know it.

There are plenty of real threats facing the US. I would go get an ulcer over one of those and not this thing made up in your brain or implanted there by some rather ill-meaning self-dealing advisors trying to cook up a scheme for making a lot of money advising the US government on schemes to deal with the EMP threat.

34 posted on 05/11/2024 2:44:26 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: srmanuel

The defense is that the perpetrator gets whipe off the face of the earth. Period. No equivocation. No ifs ands or buts. Period.


35 posted on 05/11/2024 2:45:50 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: srmanuel

There is a certain point where so many objects are in orbit that a single collision creates a chain reaction of destruction.


36 posted on 05/11/2024 3:05:58 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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Re: "it might be an investment worth considering"

Might be - but no SpaceX or StarLink public stock is available for small investors.

If StarLink eventually spins off as a private company, buying the StarLink Initial Public Offering (IPO) would be a 50-50 gamble, because of the huge pro-and-con Elon Musk connection.

37 posted on 05/11/2024 5:31:09 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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Yes it would be a big gamble in terms of an investment but one with a monumental upside and a downside of only what you are willing to risk, let’s say your risk tolerance is $5000 and you get 50 shares at $100/share, what would that $5000 be worth in 10 years, it could be worth 0 or it could be worth $50,000 or more

Things like Microsoft and Bitcoin were probably 50/50 at one point but have a bunch of people extremely wealthy, I caught a very small part of the upside of Microsoft and that has been fantastic, I have zero exposure to Bitcoin, I didn’t understand Bitcoin

In Starlink’s case I have a really good understanding of the potential especially when the voice aspect gets calculated


38 posted on 05/11/2024 9:33:33 PM PDT by srmanuel
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