Before you assign the F.C.C. as further example of the Trump administration, that the F.C.C. is behind the design and operation of this Satellite, go back and read the F.C.C. document. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/at...

They are granting a station license.

Any time a satellite is launched, if it has communication abilities - all do - the regulatory agencies of the world must be in approval. A station license is granted. This satellite needs coordination, and that the F.C.C. coordinating the frequencies in use, and granting them station licenses does not makes them part of the design and operation. I have F.C.C. granted station licenses, as long as I work in the frequencies the license grants, and comply with the modes of operation allowed, they don't have anything to do with my stations.

This coordination happens on everything launched, not just communications satellites. And seriously, unless the satellite never transmits, it needs coordination. RF does not know political parties.

Almost as funny as people who think that the RF spectrum is political.

Make no mistake. The only thing the F.C.C has to do with this satellite is assigninging the Frequencies it communicates on. they have nothing to do with anything else. It has nothing to do with Trump, Obama, Bush II Clinton, or any political party. It has nothing to do with the design or use of the satellite. It has everything to do with RF, keeping radio signals away from each other.

Anyone using it as a further example and source of outrage for their hatred of a country, that this is politics - is only showing that they know nothing about what they are talking about.

Read the official F.C.C. pdf document in TFS. Rather than gaslighting anyone, the F.C.C. is simply doing what they do, asked for frequencies to communicate on, they provided them in conjunction with the NTIA. This action is performed in conjunction with the similar organizations in other countries.

Has nothing to do with politics. Has everything to do with keeping RF emitters from interfering with each other. RF is not concerned with political parties. It is one area where there must be coordination between countries.

Now onto gaslighting - TFA is a fine example of exactly that. An article which paints the F.C.C as somehow being an integral part of this solar reflector is top tier gaslighting. The people in here, in their zeal, yet know almost nothing about the F.C.C or RF, yet demand that it is somehow evil.

RF is how I make my money, and people who know almost nothing about it yet make sweeping pronouncements about it are big gaslighters.

But when the Russians did the same thing, they were just being smart?

Many people in here apparently missed the part that the F.C.C. has absolutely nothing to do with the mirror itself. The F.C.C. has made a conditional grant for the frequencies used in communication, in concordance with the NTIA. And the payload is irrelevant. Other countries have similar groups to coordinate RF emitters.

One does not launch satellites without that coordination, you have to let them know where you plan on emitting RF. Or just as likely, ask where you can.

Why is this? https://www.ntia.gov/sites/def...

I have that chart printed on my wall in a large frame. Occasionally people come in wanting a chunk of RF to operate on. Many have trouble understanding just how crowded the RF spectrum is, and I refer them to the chart. "Pick a frequency". And that turns out to be way beyond their ability.

I don't do it to be contrary, but to educate them that this is seriously non-trivial. Especially when people don't know how RF acts. It is an unruly beast that has wildly different characteristics depending on frequency, and it beats with other frequencies to produce new frequencies outside its allocation.

The mirror sat itself is just a mirror sat, there is perhaps some data to be gathered from its deployment, but this company will find out just as the Russians did, that it is of limited utility. It is on a fast moving satellite, it doesn't provide all that much light, and then there is the clouds and stuff that block the sky.

But the F.C.C. and NTIA are just doing their jobs, which has nothing to do with the purpose of the sat, only keeping the spectrum operating. Just like with every other satellite for every different purpose.

I think the minimum number os sails that would work is the number that would block the sky completely. 8^)

Oh, you have given me my comeuppance, you have.

You are so enraged that you follow me around, posting complete non-sequiturs that fail to make much sense. Even my sig gives you a shitfit.

Thank you - as a troll who enjoys sending the thin skinned into spittle flecked keyboard warrior rage, You've given me the ultimate compliment - well almost. Please post in all caps, and I'll win the internet.

Focus, observe, remember.

It'll have pretty much the same outcome. 8^)

When is the EU going to heave a censor to save people from such terrible treatment, European citizens need to be protected from anything anyone doesn't like.

Perhaps a fundamental difference between Europe and the heathens in 'Murrica. I was annoyed by some of meta's practices. Set my browser to not autoplay. But apparently EU needs to do the pecuniary extraction route.

Seriously, is there nothing that the EU doesn't try to extract money from? I'll bet they will fine anyone using comic sans font next, or Borders larger than 5 pixels. I mean really, we must protect our citizens!

Russians tried this in the 1990s. Seriously underwhelming, and not likely to be much better this time around.

Well look here, "Many Americans would have done the same.

A little history for ya, superior being.

Did you know that at the start of the war, many Japanese Citizens were interred in Camps? Yes.

But there is a difference in the camps. the Japanese were not starved, they were well fed. They were not forced into Slave labor, and make no mistake, they were not gassed with the European's favorite gift gas, using Zyklon B. And they were let go eventually .

And here's the difference. We Americans are ashamed of that action. It was wartime, and well, many of us understand that while deplorable, it was a different time. There was a worldwide war happening, one in which the axis powers were killing "undesirables" en masse, and it was not a good thing to be in say Nanking or South Korea, during the Axis actions if you were female.

Meanwhile, your whataboutism is not true nor accurate, but you stood up for the holocaust by saying Americans would have done the same.

We did not, Europeans definitely did, and that is why you act all high and might5y, your deepest impulse didn't go anymore, just submerged a bit below the surface, ready to be enacted again when you get the chance.

How do you know he enjoys watching his wife have sex with other men? Or is that just projection?

Yup, and they still do that crap. While food is fairly well controlled, medicine is a disaster. As people become more and more expecting miracles in a pill, we're getting some freaky side effects.

Men are regularly put on meds that kill their ability to get an erection. A friend in his mid 30's was suggested to go on Cholesterol meds. I pulled him aside.. "You just got married last year, do you and your wife enjoy intimacy?" Oh hell yeah!" The you really need to check out the side effects of what statins do ."

Or constant fatigue, or permanent coughing.

And women have become victims of a constant and increasing antidepressant use, which has not branched out to prescribing antipsychotics. I suppose after they experience the chemical straitjacket and mental numbness, they might be about as "happy" as they can get - AKA numb - but yes, the sexual dysfunction, weight gain, and the special gift of Tardive Dyskenisia, those uncontrolled movements often kick in. But fear not, there are meds for TD - although one of the side effects is TD!

And that's the insane thing. We have all of this disinformation about things like vaccines. Yet people gobble down, like candy, meds that will wreck their lives . I've done my best to avoid getting into the system, I only doctor for acute things like injuries. No maintenance meds. They always try to get me into the system, I tell them to slag off.

Weird that you were modded as troll. What you wrote was not only funny, but likely true. I always thought his presence was to make the rest of this administration look normal.

There is another piece of idiocy. "Make America Healthy Again? Yeah Not that health issues are an America thing, but MAHA must be returning to everyone smoking again, Drinking Radium Water along with putting it in food. Having children's feet X-ray Fluoroscoped to fit them with shoes, Mercury treatments, cocaine for kids for teething, Arsenic and lead in medicines, Lead in gasoline, tapeworms for weight control. Purposely getting Malaria to treat STD's. Arsenic in Wallpaper, Arsenic as an Insecticide, and on and on.

Sorry, but MAHA is merely insanity. If America (or the rest of the world) was somehow healthier at one time, we need to return to all those things that were provably killing us.