Scientists, looking deep into space, have long voiced their concerns that satellites are encroaching on their ability to study the cosmos.

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If New Zealand can manage damn near 100% cellular coverage, and we have some pretty reasonable mountains, why can’t others?

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Centurylink/Quest/Whatever it was before received something like a billion dollars from the Obama administration to “connect the entire nation” with modern phone service. They didn’t do that.

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You could receive normal satellite internet the same way, the advantage starlink brings is that it’s much lower latency than geosynchronous satellites and they’re selling it for much less and more bandwith.

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Normal sattelite internet is terrible

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