Myspace and early Facebook were already a downgrade to classic chatrooms.
I met with so many interesting people on chat in the early 2000s and have met with many offline as well. Multiple times I've travelled 6+ hours to participate in chat meetups with 20-50 others from the same chatroom.
Those were different times: Over 4 years, I've never received a d*ckpic or was target of stalking, harassment, abuse or scam.
People were genuinely interested in each other, chat was not about building a personal brand and anonymity didn't make commenters psychos.
I'm not sure if ignorance was bliss, or times changed so much, but as an adult, I feel online communication has became a battlefield where I need to protect my sanity every time I interact with it.
Rage bait, fake news, ads, bot farms, lies in a never ending flood.
I wouldn't let my children to even try to live the same, uncontrolled online life I had.
I think the heat dissipation relative to volume of the ISS is way lower than these satellites, yet that already needs sizable thermal radiators to cool:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/150004
GPUs are also very power hungry, I need about 2 square meter of solar panels on my room to feed a single RTX 5090 during summer. How many do you want to send up in a single satellite?
What about the data link? Real world Starlink speeds are capping around 300 Mbps. I understand that is a shared link with plenty of peers but what is a realistic bandwidth between these satellites and some fixed, earth receiving stations?
Those were different times: Over 4 years, I've never received a d*ckpic or was target of stalking, harassment, abuse or scam. People were genuinely interested in each other, chat was not about building a personal brand and anonymity didn't make commenters psychos.
I'm not sure if ignorance was bliss, or times changed so much, but as an adult, I feel online communication has became a battlefield where I need to protect my sanity every time I interact with it. Rage bait, fake news, ads, bot farms, lies in a never ending flood. I wouldn't let my children to even try to live the same, uncontrolled online life I had.