It is during a Starlink outage that one ought to cultivate the proper perspective about it, remembering to appreciate the technological miracle and marvel that it is.
This message beamed to space from an undisclosed location and distributed globally within a split second. (Now that service is restored.)
bad_haircut72 · 54m ago
Not a time to get philosophical when your drone team on the zero line in Ukraine loses comms
tjpnz · 10m ago
Which is why they don't use it for that. Too susceptible to jamming and Elon's politics on a given day. All their drones will be fly by (fiber optic) wire now.
bruffen · 31m ago
Drone operators aren't human, who cares.
Joel_Mckay · 21m ago
The Suns 11-year cycle is hitting the ionosphere hard right now.
Great for Ham Radio bounce contacts, but a lot of space equipment won't do well. =3
People still don't really know why the sun hasn't accidentally cooked us thus far:
The funny thing with the community status page is that stations can't report they're down when they're down :P There's big holes in individual stations' history and it looks normal.
Perhaps due to geomagnetic storms, though stronger ones have not caused outages. Possibly just because.
notorandit · 2h ago
Done
auggierose · 1h ago
I like the Bladerunner reference in your about.
Joel_Mckay · 10m ago
Yeah, but the Blade Runner Replicants lived longer than most FANG coders churn positions.
One of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time. =3
t1E9mE7JTRjf · 1h ago
same
roschdal · 1h ago
Why rely on something as flaky as the Internet for anything important?
throwaway019254 · 1h ago
Not sure if sarcasm or flame bait.
rowanG077 · 1h ago
I don't think it's either? Internet outages are relatively common. I wouldn't want my pacemaker or ventilator to just stop working if there is an internet outage for example. So I agree with them, for anything important(or rather extremely high availability) you don't depend on the internet.
bbarnett · 48m ago
I was curious if any aspect of local hospitals, required the internet to validate licenses, for example.
I wouldn't be surprised if stupidly, something important did.
This message beamed to space from an undisclosed location and distributed globally within a split second. (Now that service is restored.)
Great for Ham Radio bounce contacts, but a lot of space equipment won't do well. =3
People still don't really know why the sun hasn't accidentally cooked us thus far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r5ZCESOpP0
There will be random outages for any space based equipment for awhile. =3
This community Starlink Status page doesn't seem to show any outage: https://starlinkstatus.space/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/ paints a different picture
Perhaps due to geomagnetic storms, though stronger ones have not caused outages. Possibly just because.
One of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time. =3
I wouldn't be surprised if stupidly, something important did.