Based Tesla man will make it possible to livestream from the sahara desert, or the middle of the pacific

Based Tesla man will make it possible to livestream from the sahara desert, or the middle of the pacific

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Only until some badly designed chink or poojeet satellite ends up crashing into one, causing kessler syndrome.

SpaceX (along with anyone else making large 100+ satellite constellations) should be made to add active avoidance features, since we cannot trust the non-western satellites will even follow course.

yep. all it takes is a few collisions and we're trapped on Earth forever and all satellites are destroyed by a never ending shrapnel storm

>Inb4 this project doesn't go anyway

Atmospheric drag at the relevant altitude means there's no possibility of persistent debris.

this is going to be the biggest thing since the invention of the internet.

And prevent future space travel.

>space travel

how much of a brainlet do you have to be to think that space travel is feasible.
people need to get it through their heads that we're stuck here, and aren't going anywhere.

based and redpilled
for some reason this horribly triggers normies, even though it's the truth

near light speed travel is perfectly possible at our current knowledge of physics, the problem is in the materials sector, for we need something with a negative mass for it to be possible

It's unbelievable that people don't know these things.

In order to be useful, the satellites need to be in very low orbit where there's still a wisp of atmosphere. No biggie, drag is still super low because the sat is pretty compact. But blow the satellite to bits and the massive increase in surface area per mass will sink the debris right quick (within a year or two).
>Hold on, a YEAR!? But that's a long time!
No it isn't. LEO is a very big place (bigger than the surface of the earth), there's basically no chance any debris will find another sat within a year. In fact, if two sats collide in the first place then the first thing you should think is that it was done maliciously.

>Not worrying about all the shit up there already.
Hello my low IQ white friend.

ipv7 HAPPENING

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so it's impossible

if you had negative mass you could travel using gravity alone, no need for fuel

>possible to livestream from the sahara desert, or the middle of the pacific
finally. the length of time my peoples have waited and prayed for the new series of Carpool Karaoke to arrive in Our Nomadic Home. Not sure about the middle of The Pacific, but, prob. be noice for people with boats and shit.
>t. Tuareg

the only thing stopping me from living a nomadic life in the australian outback is internet access. if based elon can make this happen I'll be /out/ permanently

>living a nomadic life
The only thing stopping me leading a chaste, celibate and wizard-like existence in the middle of the Sahara is bitches, thots and hos. The second MGM Grand build a coconut-themed resort with blackjack tables, coke and hookers, imma move there and live me the simple life, finally freed of all needless distractions

how much of a brainlet do you have to be to think that home computing is feasible.
people need to get it through their heads that we're stuck with mainframes, and they aren't going anywhere.

>implying rocket technology will advance the way computers did
I wonder why it hasn't happened already

>rockets
lol

these are geo sats tho are they not
at that altitude you'd have to try really hard to enter kessler syndrome

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>lol
XD

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the endgame is never to have to launch a rocket to begin with, and as related fields like materials and energy production continue to advance while orbital infrastructure continues to build from both private and public interests, this isn't all that out there within at least the next few centuries. economical, on-demand space travel for an individual may still be pretty much science fiction bullshit and may always be, but plenty of alternatives to rockets like tethers or lofstrom loops are perfectly feasible and can make large-scale travel and colonization/commercialization of space much less of a headache than it would be otherwise.

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it's not about technology dumb ass it's about the distances. it takes thousands of years at the speed of light to have a radius where you have a 1% chance of finding another earth

>implying it's all just about finding another Earth to ground ourselves on, shit all over and repeat the cycle
there's plenty of resources and open space right here, nigga

A few thousand satellites up on reusable rockets is nothing brainlet.

The amount of junk is already unfathomable.

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At worst it will just make LEO impossible; MEO and geostationary (and beyond, obviously) will all still be viable. That will still suck, since it costs a fuckload more to launch things higher and being further away makes satellites less useful for tasks like communication/weather/spying/etc, but the whole 'trapped on earth forever' line is just bad sci-fi.

Lorenson loop is just if you need to keep the g's down to not kill the fleshbags. For unmanned satellites, it'll be cheaper to harden them up to 75g or so and railgun them into space.

you can always fuck a camel tho

Camel won't give you STDs or steal your shit either.

Lofstrom loop that is.

yep, that's another plus