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Comment Low latency is the killer ap (Score 1) 126

What people aren't realizing is that once the Starlink satelite-to-satelite laser links are running, Starlink will essentially have a monopoly on the lowest latency internet. High frequency traders, intelligence services, gamers, etc will pay unlimited money to have lower latency than the competition. Internet latency over long distances is dominated by time-of-flight, not time-through-routers. The speed of light in a vacuum is C; the speed of light in optical fiber is 0.7 * C. Starlink is only 300 miles up; that's trivial compared with global distances, and it can beam data in straight lines between satelites, forming a geodesic. Optical fiber, on the other hand, mainly follows highways and railroads, which follow rivers and valleys, because that is where people settled. Under ocean cables do follow a great circle route, but generally take the shortest route between continents to minimize the underwater spans. The faster optical speed plus shorter distances will be unbeatable (except by other massive LEO constellations). And SpaceX is the only constellation provider that also has their own rockets.

Comment Re:Plus (Score 1) 191

I don't have a garage, have multiple cars, and charge my Model 3 in my driveway (in rainy snowy New England). EV wall chargers have a relay in them; they don't energize the cable until it's plugged in and no ground fault is detected. When unplugging, the car won't unlock the cable until it's de-energized. Totally safe.

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