On 4/30/22, jim bell wrote:
> https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-service-ukraine-204704942.html
Space... where anything you destroy turns into chunks that
circle back to deny your own use of those orbits for at least
the average orbital decay period... which for useful orbits more
efficient than lower ones that require economically draining
ongoing replacement launch costs to offset losses to decay,
rapidly becomes greater than 100y... an interesting mutually
assured destruction (MAD). Orbits also can't be enforceably
owned by title, but only by developing technological capacity
to push the safe density on orbit greater than what any
competitor can safely handle without triggering their own MAD.
The only survivable non MAD "human future beyond earth preserving"
space combat would be grappling deorbiter bots that also
deorbit all their own spent rocket stages. But since they're
still filling orbits with spent casings and dead satellites, that
sort of universal human agreement and commitment to space
caretaking is probably still years overshot, just as human
resource consumption on earth is far more overshot.
Starlink is interesting, but in order to be of much use to
humanity to avoid the very censorship control and destruction
it's in the news for routing around in Ukraine... Starlink really
does need to allow fully anonymous purchase, delivery,
and payments... cash, crypto, unserialized retail purchase...
for everyone on the planet. And you're still going to need a
ground based p2p overlay using RF fiber copper since
Starlink can triangulate the dish uplinks of its users.
GovCorp central internet services are just cheap and risky backhaul,
only to be used as overlay distance bridges until you can complete
building your own global encrypted anonymous p2p piecewise
physically owned house-to-house parcel-to-parcel distributed next
generation internet using RF fiber copper GNURadio wifi meshnet,
crowdshared community network building instructable how-to co-ops,
etc.
"Distribute all the things" must now include not only cryptocurrency
and internet services, but the entire notion of the physical internet itself.
