Nothing you said goes counter to my comment. You assume that all 8k birds are serving one dish at a time. They aren't. You probably also assume that Will Smith movie enemy of the state is a documentary about satellites. It's not, it's fiction. Satellites don't work that way.

The dish uses phased array to direct its antennas to the bird, not the other way around. This is so that the dish doesn't have to move. The bird aims a spot beam at the cell where the dish is located. The antenna compensates for Doppler because of the speed that the bird is moving relative to the cell, not the dish. That cell covers a pretty broad area and serves many terminals at once. At best you have two birds pointing to a single cell at once, and only during handoff. Even during that window, two birds isn't enough to locate a single terminal with any reasonable degree of accuracy.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your Hollywood education is inadequate for this topic.

Yep. That nicely sums it up. And a ton of idiots in denial praying to the new LLM God.

What else is new? YouTube is full of videos of similar stupid things outside of the IT space.

/facepalm

Ok I'll actually spell this out:

Without realizing it, you're trying to attribute to the Baumol effect what is better attributed to Bowen's law. In 2006, two economists tried to pin this on the former after literally decades of attribution to the latter (well before the student debt crisis.) But then 2008 happened, and what we saw what happens when a decrease in demand results in a decrease in revenue.

Furthermore, as the first link I gave showed, there's only evidence in support of colleges actually reducing their efficiency. But how can they get away with that? Easy; Bowens law, which itself is enabled by the overabundance of student loans.

This has been examined and reexamined by many economists. Actual economists, not illiterate ones like you. And, if you had actually gone to a university before, you'd know that students can't bid on admissions, rather schools simply cap them. So it's driven by revenue, not demand. As 2008 showed, demand only affects costs when there's insufficient demand.

Have fun.

You're calling yourself stupid then given Tesla, not SpaceX, gave him that trillion dollar pay package.

That wasn't Elon's decision.

https://spacenews.com/shotwell...

If that was arranged though the Pentagon, it probably would have gone off without a hitch as it would have absolved SpaceX of any legal liability.

You guys are working on the very bad assumption (made by a guy who has no idea what he's talking about) that this information is even available to SpaceX to begin with. The only way to determine the precise location of a terminal is with plain old GPS, and that isn't at all foolproof.

This is quite false. It can only be known which cell the dish is in. You're thinking (likely without realizing) about Doppler. It doesn't work that way. And even then, it can still be slightly outside of that area. Photons don't work the way you think they do. The cell only guarantees where you'll get an adequate signal for service, it does NOT guarantee that you won't get an adequate signal outside of that area.

You're making a ton of wild assumptions here, and no doubt you're predicating even those on top of your first assumption, which itself is very wrong.

That is not the question. The question is whether not handing them said machine is worse.

Indeed. But too many idiots do not understand the difference between correlation and causation, because they can only think in correlations. For example, the typical MAGA is "keyword-trigger only". They see a specific keyword and then see the whole cloud of correlated things as also in there. Causation? They do not even understand the concept, much less being able to use it.

*what NOT everyone can afford to do...

Horseshit.

I spent decades never spending more than a couple of hundred GBP (Slashdot Classic still ddoesn't let me type £ properly... see?) on a car, then throwing it away and buying a new one when the MOT failed. They often lasted years.

What now everyone can afford to do is BUY IT FROM NEW or lease the damn thing. Both are ridiculously expensive ways to "own" a car. Honestly, that's a modern disease thinking that you have to lease the thing, with balloon payments no less, and then have it serviced exactly according to their schedule. It's horseshit. Just buy a car.

Stop buying from car salesmen with huge lots and a minimum of 4 figures on the crappiest of cars, stop paying £1000's (grrr!) for a basic cheap shitty old used second-hand car with a history you have no idea of, and stop getting into ridiculous finance arrangements or thinking you have to preserve a service history that NOBODY gives a damn about.