foonix
foonix t1_j5ont4q wrote
Reply to comment by Canal_Volphied in Starlink Is ‘Forced’ To Finally Start Caring About The System’s Light Pollution And Harm To Scientific Research by Albion_Tourgee
Why are you arguing so vehemently over something so trivial? Obviously, the access wasn't zero, but just as obviously, 3 Mbps isn't going to cut it for a lot of applications.
foonix t1_j5nzhea wrote
Reply to Starlink Is ‘Forced’ To Finally Start Caring About The System’s Light Pollution And Harm To Scientific Research by Albion_Tourgee
The headline:
> Starlink Is ‘Forced’
The article:
> The agreement is voluntary
foonix t1_j5rtth7 wrote
Reply to comment by SuperRette in Starlink Is ‘Forced’ To Finally Start Caring About The System’s Light Pollution And Harm To Scientific Research by Albion_Tourgee
What they said was honest. Trying to contest it was moving the goalpost.
> Hell, Starlink will soon be serving Antarctica. Currently they send data back via tapes, flown on airplanes.
This was a good-faith answer to the question. But then the person who asked the question flipped and tried to argue with it for no good reason.
> Wrong. Satellite connection with Antarctica existed long before Starlink.
That is moving the goalpost. They didn't say it didn't exist. They just said that they transport data physically. The two aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, their own citation shows that bandwidth was a scarce resource. It indirectly supports the claim they are arguing against.