• Kobek@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    It’s incredible that people are willing to throw away excellent technology over emotions. This his been a problem throughout human history. When you look at the bigger picture, why would anyone want to be a part of that cycle?

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      I don’t think that this is the case of “throw(ing) away excellent technology over emotions”. This is the case of the owner of Starlink actively working with the American administration against the national interests & sovereignty of Canadians. We should be long, long past squabbling over borders, especially with nations that have been our close allies for over a hundred years, who have suddenly decided that annexation is a desirable objective. This has nothing to do with “emotions” and everything to do with sovereignty.

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      because of emotions? we have seen Starlink being used to threaten/force Ukraine to comply now that they’re reliant on it for their military. We do not want to allow anything similar to happen here

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        People are usually afraid of something they don’t understand. You’re so hyper focused on a few political issues that you are not seeing the enormous benefits this and other technology can have for all of humanity.

        Who cares about the owner and how he’s making money. Everyone dies, he will be dead eventually. Technology lives on. Don’t be regressive.

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          It’s a literal national security threat to become dependent on starling, as demonstrated in Ukraine. We can build our own networks and support other LEO internet projects.

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          The technology is not at peril here, Starlink the company is. Competitors exist, and they’ll take Starlink’s place, and the technology will live on. Competition is what’s to like about capitalism, isn’t it?

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          Who cares about the owner and how he’s making money. Everyone dies, he will be dead eventually. Technology lives on. Don’t be regressive

          Just like the guy that thought putting lead in gasoline was a great idea… now we have to deal with toxic soil for generations to come.

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      Littering LEO with space junk just so you can see the booba faster out in the sticks is not the forward thinking stance you want to believe it is.

      Killing terrestrial astronony while, and potentially ending spaceflight, because we’re too lazy to propey invest in terrestrial solutions and just want the billionaire wankers to control everyting is a self own.