Re: [AFMUG] SpaceX Says Its 60 Starlink Satellites Are All Phoning Home (and Fading Out) | Space

2019-06-02 Thread Nate Burke
I can only hear Ford Prefect saying that now. On 6/2/2019 5:57 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: It’s amazing how many companies that people assume are profitable are anything but. At least for now. I guess we said this about Amazon once. But Uber lost $1 billion on $3 billion in revenue in the

Re: [AFMUG] SpaceX Says Its 60 Starlink Satellites Are All Phoning Home (and Fading Out) | Space

2019-06-02 Thread Ken Hohhof
It’s amazing how many companies that people assume are profitable are anything but. At least for now. I guess we said this about Amazon once. But Uber lost $1 billion on $3 billion in revenue in the most recent quarter. They already have the app. They don’t own the cars. The drivers are

Re: [AFMUG] SpaceX Says Its 60 Starlink Satellites Are All Phoning Home (and Fading Out) | Space

2019-06-02 Thread Bill Prince
There are whole bunches of risk factors. Assuming the satellite-mesh system works (and that is still an if; note that this first batch does not include the sat-sat laser link capability), I have not seen a real estimate of the system capacity. I would presume

Re: [AFMUG] SpaceX Says Its 60 Starlink Satellites Are All Phoning Home (and Fading Out) | Space

2019-06-02 Thread Ken Hohhof
You’d think that SpaceX is highly profitable and is using those profits to expand into the satellite Internet business. But actually there is debate whether SpaceX is profitable without accounting tricks, and even if it is profitable, the margins are very thin. Reportedly the geostationary

Re: [AFMUG] SpaceX Says Its 60 Starlink Satellites Are All Phoning Home (and Fading Out) | Space

2019-06-02 Thread Mike Hammett
I would suspect they are going to have hundreds of earth stations as opposed to one or two earth stations that legacy platforms have. Up to the bird, maybe across one or two birds, and back down to the fiber-fed earth stations. I've seen the numbers, but I forgot the numbers. It's real

Re: [AFMUG] OT Heavyweight Title

2019-06-02 Thread chuck
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/andy-ruiz-jr-anthony-joshua-heavyweight-titles -Original Message- From: Jay Weekley Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2019 10:30 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Heavyweight Title Boxing? Chuck McCown wrote: Like I tell my sons, just

Re: [AFMUG] OT Heavyweight Title

2019-06-02 Thread Jay Weekley
Boxing? Chuck McCown wrote: Like I tell my sons, just because I may carry a few extra pounds does not mean I cannot knock them down. That was a fun victory last night. I loved the look on his face when he got knocked down in the third. It was like “ok now I am pissed and I am going to

[AFMUG] OT Heavyweight Title

2019-06-02 Thread Chuck McCown
Like I tell my sons, just because I may carry a few extra pounds does not mean I cannot knock them down. That was a fun victory last night. I loved the look on his face when he got knocked down in the third. It was like “ok now I am pissed and I am going to hammer you”. -- AF mailing