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Original geek, photographer, video editor, programmer, twin dad, urban explorer, Nikon fan, Star Trek.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Emirates executive Patrick Brannelly in new interview on why they adopted @Starlink:

"The legacy systems weren’t working. No matter how much money we threw at them, passengers still complained, and it was impossible technically for everybody that wanted to connect to connect. Then Starlink came along saying, ‘We guarantee it, it will work.’ With a very pragmatic technical viewpoint, insisting on XWAPs, to connect 100%, and to install more than one antenna to handle demand and for redundancy. It was like for the first time, talking to people that actually understood how the internet works in a highly dense environment on an aircraft.

It seemed our legacy connectivity industry didn’t really understand the core technologies needed to deliver customer connectivity happiness. But Starlink absolutely understood it.

Now, in addition, the big fundamental shift from the first generation of Starlink was the evolution of satellite-to-satellite laser connectivity. So, if you’re a middle of the ocean, where you’ve got nowhere to ground the traffic, Starlink could just pass the traffic through adjacent satellites until there’s one over a ground station. That worked much better than I think anybody had imagined."

Emirates has already started to install Starlink on its entire fleet of ~232 aircraft, with full completion expected by mid-2027. Customers onboard with Starlink are already seeing 10-20X internet speed improvements.

(full SatelliteToday interview linked below)

[💥LoLo💥 @ZOrtiz9919]

I fully support this.

[Maye Musk @mayemusk]

My dad is the only person who would service his plane. In order to move from Canada to South Africa, he had to remove the wings from the plane. That is why we were in a cargo ship. When we reached Cape Town, he attached the wings, then flew to Pretoria.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

The UAE announces it will cuts funds for citizens who want to study in the UK out of fear of Emirati students being radicalized by Muslim Brotherhood Islamists on British campuses.

An Arab state now views a European state as a dangerous Islamist radicalization hotspot

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

On CNN: "President Trump should hire Nancy Pelosi in retirement to manage Americans' stock market portfolios. She beat the S&P 500 by 559%. We could all be retired in 6 months."

[Martin Sellner @MartinSellner_]

Lifetime contribution per immigrant:

🟢North America: +$573,000
🟢Scandinavia: +$557,000
🟢Oceania: +$476,000
🟢Japan: +$525,000
🟢UK: +$481,000

🔻Somalia: -$1.1 million
🔻Caribbean: -$675,000
🔻Middle East: -$624,000
🔻Latin America: -$271,000
🔻Sub-Saharan Africa: -$730,000
🔻Central + North Africa: -$700,000

Source: IZA study (Netherlands, 2024)

Remigration saves money.

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@Geniustechw Depends on if you dont want to get poked, or if you want clean silverware!

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@Theonlyjcvolly @gotrice2024 Look at the tail wag when he knew she was coming!

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@TheStockGuyTV @GMC This!

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RT @PeterSchiff: I’m off to Las Vegas for the Bitcoin conference this morning, where, ironically, I’ll likely be the speaker who best under…

[FreedomToons @Freedom_Toons]

Trump deports innocent citizen who never committed a crime and also he was a rocket scientist

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@TaraBull808 Malarkey

[Gav | spaceOFFSHORE @spaceOFFSHORE]

SpaceX ship Doug is back at Port Canaveral on a beautiful sunny day with both fairing halves from Starlink 6-45. 🪂🪂🪂 https://t.co/icguJj64A8

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@JoeBiden Misinformation-context was the auto industry. Pathetic.

[gabsmashh @gabsmashh]

DO NOT SCAN THE SKY QR CODE

[ᥫ᭡. βɾօաղƐվҽժƓìɾӀ @BrownEyeGirl_45]

The internet remains undefeated…

To the absolute legend that took the time out to do this! You are hilarious! This made my entire week!

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@ABC Don’t you realize how dumb you sound when you post stuff like ‘pregnant person’ ?

[ABC News @ABC]

Police in Dallas have issued an arrest warrant for Buffalo Bills linebacker Von Miller for allegedly assaulting a pregnant person. https://t.co/EYIzkV8zwM

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Russian President Vladimir Putin suffered a cardiac arrest in the presidential bedroom, where he was found lying on the floor of his bedroom next to overturned food and drinks about 9.05pm on Sunday, and regained consciousness, per unconfirmed rumors by Sky News.

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@RashidaTlaib @POTUS Are you incompetent and uninformed or just dishonest?

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@LaurenWitzkeDE How very sad that a mother is passing on her poor behavior and hatred to her child.