There's no pretending. You're just not understanding where the lower latency comes from. I'm sure you would've figured it out if you hadn't been in a rush to post a smug answer. The lasers allow two satellites to directly communicate. Before that, communicating with another satellite required the sender to communicate with a ground station, route the data through a wired network to another ground station, then radio it back to the receiving satellite. The lasers allow the satellites to communicate with each other directly, or through a mesh network of satellites. The shorter distance results in less latency. The other benefit is increased coverage. The reason for that is obvious and in the article so I'm not going to reinvent the wheel.

Of course you're here denying the moon landing happened. Dude, go back to the flat earth forums where you belong and stop trolling the comment section of slashdot.

Can you be anymore hypocritical? You're sitting here talking about attacking scientists when you've spent your entire time in the comment section doing the same thing. You clearly have anger management issue and need to log off the internet for the day. Consider researching the M87 supermassive blackhole using your own radio telescope and publishing your own results.

Scientists have zero obligation to treat your half baked guesses made by people who don't understand the science as a serious question they need to address. It's not their responsibility to educate you. Your conspiracy rants are a perfect example of the Dunning–Kruger effect. There are plenty of flat earth conspiracy forums you might enjoy more.

Are you confusing your own mathematical model with reality? Because you're the only one making predictions with zero evidence to back it up. Try going to the original paper, not the layman news article that summarizes and incredibly complicated topic. Clearly there was more to this than just the quotes people generated for the reporter.

Now who is cherry picking? I suppose the device you used to post this comment was created using thoughts and prayers since science is all fake news according to you. Perhaps psychology would interest you more than physics. It might help you understand the confirmation bias you're engaging in.

You're being just as biased as the people you're accusing of being biased.

Amazon doesn't seem to do anything about the myriad of fake products on their site that are also filled with fake reviews. Search "rainbow rose seeds" on Amazon and you'll be treated to no shortage of listings for "Rainbow Rose seeds," aka Rosa Photoshopus. What's worse, these pages then suggest you buy other fake seeds causing gullible people to waste even more money on plants that don't exist. Amazon is full of these fake plant seeds that are a product of photoshop, not genetic engineering. There are no shortage of obviously fake products on Amazon they choose to do nothing about. I know the seeds have been on there for over a decade and would be very easy to "root" out. They need stricter controls on product listings.