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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-17 01:52:17 +0000, Scott Lurndal said:   
   > Your Name  writes:   
   >> On 2025-10-16 15:01:53 +0000, Cryptoengineer said:   
   >>   
   >>> On 10/16/2025 1:22 AM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-10-16 01:52:22 +0000, Cryptoengineer said:   
   >   
   >>>>> I don't know why people are so skeptical that it will be possible.   
   >>>>> I realize Musk isn't popular, but assuming everything his companies   
   >>>>> build are bad as a result, is just silly.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Mainly because everything his companies build *is* bad and   
   >>>> unsurprisingly never match the lunatic Muskrat's claims.   
   >>>   
   >>> Really? Starlink isn't hooking up people to the Internet all over the   
   >>> world?   
   >>   
   >> And many of those satelittes are failing.   
   >   
   > There are about 4500 operational starlink satellites.   
   >   
   > About 1000 have been deorbited, or are in decaying   
   > orbits.  Most of these are first generation.   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Launches   
   >   
   > Deorbited satellites burn up in the atmosphere, in theory.   
   >   
   > A larger concern is related to collisions and the consequential   
   > orbital debris.  The satellites have made more than 10   
   > thousand propulsive maneuvers to avoid debris, mostly from   
   > the Russian anti-satellite weapons test.   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Increased_risk_of_satellite_collision   
   >   
   > There are also impacts on observational earth-based astronomy.   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Impact_on_astronomy   
   >   
   >>> SpaceX isn't providing the cheapest space launches, and is so popular   
   >>> it is now the miles-ahead launch provider in the world, with more than   
   >>> half of total launches worldwide?   
   >>   
   >> And many of those launches fail, often spectacularly.   
   >   
   > Not a single launch of operational Starlink satellites has   
   > failed.  You seem to be conflating the Starship test launch   
   > failures with Starlink.  The starlink satellites to date   
   > have been launched from the Falcon 9 rocket, which has   
   > an outstanding launch success record.   
      
   I wasn't "conflating" anything. The original senrtence said "SpaceX ...   
   rocket launches", it wasn't specific to Starlink launches.   
      
      
      
      
      
   >>> Tesla cars don't continue to rack up awards?   
   >>   
   >> Nope, they don't. In fact, they are complained about by almost everyone   
   >> for all sorts of idiotic decisions Tesla have made - including stupid   
   >> things like charing extra for a real steering wheel or turn indicator,   
   >> doors that can't be opened after a crash, etc.   
   >   
   > Do you complain when GMC does the same for a gas pickup truck?  They   
   > do, you know, charge for upgrades and extras.   
   >   
   > The door handles are a design problem, to be sure.   
      
   A normal steering wheel or turn indicator is not an "upgrade" nor an   
   "extra". If greedy Muskrat must charge for "upgrades" and "extras",   
   then the ridiuclous yoke and awful button indicators should be the   
   things the very few people who do want them should pay for ... of   
   course, doing it that way doesn't give anywhere near as much money.   
      
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