Posted on 02/27/2025 11:04:56 AM PST by Red Badger
To be clear here, the Verizon communication system to air traffic control is breaking down very rapidly. The FAA assessment is single digit months to catastrophic failure, putting air traveler safety at serious risk.
The Starlink terminals are being sent at NO COST to the taxpayer on an emergency basis to restore air traffic control connectivity.
The situation is extremely dire.
CBSnooze FREAKS OUT:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/starlink-faa-contract-elon-musk-conflict-of-interest/
(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...
AVIATION PING!..................
Why does airtraffic control need a Verizon system to function?
CBSnooze FREAKS OUT: How somebody do something right for the
good of all.
How would you communicate information from every city with an airport to every other one? Dixie cups and strings?
Good question unless flight plans aren’t loading up to Center. Once airborne the Departure guys can communicate with Center then Approach control. Maybe too much writing of info @ Center which increase error probability.
Long-haul fiber between cities.
Medium-range fiber between close cities.
Short-haul “Last mile” fiber between central offices and the end-customer.
FAA did not build out its own fiber network. FAA leases entire fiber strands or DWDM channels from Verizon.
Lately...it has occurred to me that a solution like that might be an improvement...
Go to FLIGHTAWARE.com and check flights/routes etc.
They have had a person at one of the transmitters in the mountains on site FUll Time for over a year, SoCal Approach 120.4, because they keep breaking down.
If this isn’t an Atlas Shrugged moment, I don’t know what is.
HOORAY Elon!
But is he charging for the service?
Oh, that makes sense. Thanks for that info
“But is he charging for the service?”
You can bet he will get compensated in one way or another in the end.
Musk does NOTHING for free... He will expect an indirect trade of some sort in return.
For ALL of it...
Man this radical extreme idolatry is getting completely irrational and unhinged. It is scaring the hell out of me...
Entrepreneurs in general lie awake nights evaluating ideas to produce goods and/or services which are worth more (to themselves and/or others) than it would cost to provide them.Elon is astonishingly good at that. So much so that his AI-controlled anthropomorphic robot project bids fair to make human physical work anachronistic.
The original mission of Tesla was to speed the transition to sustainable energy. Nobody with the trace amount of skepticism could avoid thinking that that mission was a Democrat boondoggle. But the Biden (?) Administration made it excruciatingly clear that the synergy between unions and the Democrat Party transcended in importance to Democrats any real concern about pollution from energy. Elon saw the suppression of freedom of expression which was Biden Admin’s principal project and, by making Twitter honest, abandoned his connection with the CA Democrat party which was a principal support of the market for Tesla automobiles.
I long ago disclosed that TSLA was the largest single holding in my investment portfolio. As I told my broker, TSLA represents hope for future prosperity for my descendants. But it has to be said that CA is no longer the logical primary market for Tesla, precisely because Elon has, what Democrats consider, “gone rogue.” “Flyover country” represents a very large untapped opportunity for Tesla, for political and geographical reasons. Fuel prices are lower in “flyover country” than anywhere else, and gas stations are much more plentiful than standalone fast chargers. But home chargers are cheap and economical, and unless you do a lot of daily driving, fast chargers are strictly for trips rather than daily use - always assuming you have a garage . . .
But with self-driving AI, Tesla’s project is to make individual car ownership less dominant in personal transportation within population-dense areas. And also transcend the need for busses by making taxi rides cheap and convenient.
I recently purchased a Tesla Model Y, the largest-selling single model of any make of car worldwide. And as a late adopter of iPhones and similar tech, I have to say that I don’t naturally understand all the symbology in the software of the car. I was pushed into the purchase by my children, who I inferred thought that my assumption that the best time to buy a Tesla would always be “tomorrow” implied that in effect that meant “never.”
“Full self driving” was the primary selling point for me; if you want to travel by auto, and if you are my age, that can definitely be a restful way to do it. Once you get comfortable supervising it - tho the necessity to supervise will, I suspect, be transcended in this calendar year. Reportedly supervised self-driving is safer than manual driving already.
Thanks c_I_c. Great to see your informative posts.
musk donated cyber trucks to the fire stricken areas of california for the people to connect to the starlink satellite system for internet access and outside communication...
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