I don’t know that Iridium is still working. I think it’s been decommissioned. But, the US military has been looking for its replacement for years. Now, they could launch their own, or buy a network. Musk not getting RUS funds and losing a thousand satellites from orbit a year makes Starlink a prime candidate.

For an operating company that’s the kiss of death. I predict Starlink will be bought by the US government and there won’t be a hell of a lot of profit.

He gets them confused because turkey makes him hungry

What are they celebrating?

I’ve been following KOSA. Bad bill.

And it only cost $44 billion.

Getting ready for his debate with DeSantis

Where there’s smoke, …

… there’s both (i) destruction of government property, and (ii) obstruction of justice.

How to get rid of 44 billion dollars in a couple of months…

Then you’ll have to create a hydrogen distribution network. Please remember as you’re doing that -The main danger with hydrogen is what is known as BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion). Because hydrogen is gaseous in atmosphere

NIRN. Need It Right Now

I would suppose the same people who championed Trump’s grossly disproportionate tax gift to corporations and shareholders will now line up to shit all over these auto workers.

He’s possibly correct, but that would mean the Oscars would have been more of a place to protest than it already is. Which I guess is better than a display of Will Smith’s stupidity.

Now let’s get back to net neutrality and rules on social media.

Not the existing players, your government. Telephone companies gained right of way from your state because everybody wanted a telephone. Cable companies made a deal with your municipality for right of way by paying for it with a non-compete clauses. Power companies did the same thing. Why would they put millions of dollars worth of infrastructure in the ground for anything less? Your state and local government, and by extension you, sold it to them.

If it worked well at scale, the power companies would be in with both feet. It doesn’t

That’s when you get into your physics problem. There are only a limited amount of meuverability at those speeds though an atmosphere

Tried that. You get a lot of errors in power line delivery.

As the Ukrainians have proven, you may think that hypersonics are a big deal but you can shoot them down if you know where they are going to be.

Canaveral is a USAF base and very small. Lots of eyes make their money watching the space coast. Whereas Vandenberg is a USAF base with some very stout security.

Having been in the broadband delivery business at all levels, I sadly report that small ISPs can’t compete in this marketplace to begin with. Reason being they don’t have the investments needed for last mile delivery. If they had the money needed to install landlines, or buy frequency leases, or fly a global satellite network then they wouldn’t be a small ISP. The best that they can do is develop resell relationships.