bawolff a day ago

It was always stupid, because that is not how laws work.

Calwestjobs a day ago

only musk can save datacenters from reaches of earths governments.

by transporting every cargo to USA for thorough inspection before flight.

  • catlikesshrimp a day ago

    Isn't the cost of taking down a satellite lower than putting it up?

    The problem would be all the debris up there. Maybe destroying one satellite would destroy them all.

    • JumpCrisscross a day ago

      > Isn't the cost of taking down a satellite lower than putting it up?

      Probably not for Starlink. You’ve got mass-manufactured satellites in a constellation launched on a reüsable, profitable platform on one hand. And on the other hand you have experimental expendable ASAT weapons.

      • overfeed 20 hours ago

        How much does it cost to launch ball bearings into an intersecting orbit? They are even cheaper to mass-manufacture.

        The anti-satellite side has a budget hundreds to thousands of times cheaper, based on average ball bearings to satellite density in orbit, with a decent spread and multiple orbit intersections per day.

    • Calwestjobs a day ago

      Is not changing BGP route cheaper than taking down a satanlite ? Sorry, satellite.