• @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    93 months ago

    HAM will work best for long distance communication but does not have enough capacity to support local short messaging for any major population sizes. Mesh networks scale in bandwidth and will not be overwhelmed as easily if tens of thousands of people suddenly hop on it at the same time.

      • chocrates
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        273 months ago

        Assuming Elon isn’t part of it or doesn’t restrict usage

        • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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          3 months ago

          Free Starlink during disasters for everyone, but for surveilence child protection and anti-terrorism you must accept X as a Certificate Authority.

        • @SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world
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          23 months ago

          Starlink and the number of satellites we’ve got up there could absolutely cause a chain reaction if a few too many were destroyed.

          • chocrates
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            3 months ago

            Haha I didn’t mean that kind of disaster. But yes star link has the potential to wipe out a lot of LEO until the debris orbits all decay