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A shrinking Sahara would not automatically be good news. Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic and delivers phosphorus and other minerals to the Amazon, helping replace nutrients continually washed out of its soils by heavy rainfall. NASA has estimated that about 22,000 tons of phosphorus reach the Amazon from Saharan dust each year. So less Sahara can mean less dust, and less dust can mean less natural fertilization for the Amazon. These systems are connected. “More green here” does not automatically mean a healthier planet overall.

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3 months ago

A shrinking Sahara would not automatically be good news. Saharan dust crosses the Atlantic and delivers phosphorus and other minerals to the Amazon, helping replace nutrients continually washed out of its soils by heavy rainfall. NASA has estimated that about 22,000 tons of phosphorus reach the Amazon from Saharan dust each year. So less Sahara can mean less dust, and less dust can mean less natural fertilization for the Amazon. These systems are connected. “More green here” does not automatically mean a healthier planet overall.

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4 months ago

@linadreaamy Your first one is correct, the next two are wrong and the last one is 15.

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4 months ago

@BanditTradez @r0ck3t23 @grok No, just stating what I know of global comm networks. And not just agreeing, but you're right, full satellite won't happen anytime soon due to many of the tunnel/underground/etc. reasons I mentioned prior. It's not really the cost so much as RF capabilities though.

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4 months ago

It never really was meant to replace fiber and or cable/DSL in more populated areas, at least not at this point in the constellation. It's more geared towards rural coverage and places where there will likely never be reliable fiber or other internet service. As well as provide expanded cover for cellular out-of-range out of range traditional towers. Starlink DTC can never really fully replace traditional cellular towers/etc. Between those, WiFi calling and outdoor/indoor Starlink (with maybe a node indoors or future module on starlink, or via WiFi calling over Starlink, will be how it'll likely be used in the near term. It'll always be some hybrid solution due to trees, tunnels, underground/in building needs, etc.

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4 months ago

A single satellite costs ~ $800,000, but over it's lifetime it can generate $7,000,000+ in revenue, launches are cheap and he doesn't depend on 3rd parties. So very economical. And constellation is not just "over the US", it's around the world, it's called "Orbit", specifically, low earth orbit.

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5 months ago

The West has created an utterly evil state religion where an accusation of “racism” is the gravest offense that can be committed, even worse than rape or murder! So if police show up at a crime scene and a British boy is bleeding out and an immigrant says the British boy is racist the cops will cuff the dying British boy.

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