On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 09:34:13PM +0000, таракан wrote: > I still think that if - for example - cypherpunks (or others) would like > independent access to internet, they would need to use a technology that they > understand from A to Z and more important that they can manufacture > themselves. > > Using internet by satellite would require the ability to manufacture > satellites - which is not simple but doable and the ability to launch them in > low orbit - which, with the technology of mini-launcher is also doable, while > requiring a significant budget. Ground stations can also be manufactured... > same story, hard to produce by small groups of people. > > On the contrary Short-Waves based data communication do not require > complicated digital processing and a ground station can be produced with > relatively little equipment. > Ground stations can be mobile enough not to stay at same place, thus avoiding > detection. > > I am unsure anyway we would really need satellites to bring internet to the > world, since internet is already everywhere, in my opinion, we may need such > satellites for interplanetary communications. > > We're in 2020, the world space fleet is populated with ... a few Soyuz based > solely on USSR technology (not bad but clearly slightly limited by now) and > one or two (not sure how much) Space-X Dragon... (+ all the secondary stuff: > space probes,... ) > > As for spaceships able of interplanetary travel, the fleet is ... 0 > > so... all that Starlink story is a marketing stunt like always.
Stap 1, folks ought feed themselves without dependence on The Man. Fail on this, and we shall remain slaves.
