we should be treating spacex like we treat tesla dealerships
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
38 points (89.6% liked)
Technology
69491 readers
4250 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The corruption and fraud happening currently…
I read the article and still am a bit confused, it seems like this would speed them up how is that bad? Going to reread to see if I can understand better
FCC power limits are generally to prevent spectrum corruption, like they don't want your radio to overpower everyone else. So yes, more power is generally better for the signal but it's a shared pool of limited spectrum so your use can hurt other people.
So is it like there being multiple stores, but one company pays to have the highway lead to their store quicker?
No this is for everything including personal devices. It's very simple to just say it's like everyone listening to their phone on speakerphone and the louder it is and the closer you are the more distracting it is to you. Everyone can use it but the more crowded it is the more problems you have. If everyone uses it responsibly then everyone can use it and it's fine. That's why the FCC sets power limits because otherwise you could jack up the signal with a ton of power and no one else can hear anything. For signals it is only the same frequency that interferes with each other but all the space comsats use the same popular KU band so they have to share nicely.
Right now it’s in place to protect Geosynchronous Orbit satellites and allow communication it means there are shadow zones around the ground stations where the LEO satellites have to be quiet.
If they can get smarter about it then it’s ok, but it was set a a rule by space engineers, many of whom are actual rocket scientists, and would need careful consideration before changing. Something fElon hasn’t proven capable of.
Also jumping from 100MB/s to 1GB/s just be turning them up( or turning more on at once sounds like typical Musk bullshit.
Imagine how CORRUPT this would be if President Elon Musk, the Illegal Immigrant CUTTING THESE JOBS, was ALSO the CEO of SpaceX! That would be SUPER CORRUPT! FORTUNATELY Fox News told me that's NOT True and that's ALL the proof I need! I also need a Job though because BIDEN Fired me from my Federal Job Yesterday!
president musk and not his assistant, turmp.
Not that that fucker litters the sky with his fucking pieces of crap, he can do whatever he likes with them. Would be nice for the planet if someone would take him out.