ITT: People expanding Overton’s window

Had a factory explode just next to my city once. With everyone panicking, all connectivity (including calls and texts) was down in less than one hour. It was a while ago, but our infrastructure is more fragile than we imagine.

I think you’re on the wrong side of the chart here.

There is a public demo instance. The link and test credentials are on the GitHub page.

Tennessee whisky is not a marketing argument in Europe, you’re safe there.

They do though.

This is true at 500km altitude, but not so at higher LEO altitudes.

Don’t worry, you didn’t have any credibility to begin with.

The main European actor is called Eutelsat. They say they can provide a similar quality of service in Ukraine as Starlink. They have GEO sats and a LEO constellation of around 650 satellites.

It’s because your issues are everyone’s issues.

Arianespace is only building and operating launchers. Airbus is also the biggest satellite manufacturer in Europe. They’re in crisis right now, same as their direct European competitor Thales Alenia Space, due to Starlink destroying the traditional space Telecom market, of which they were leaders.

It’s a way for russians oligarchs to get back to their frozen assets.

In France, “lave-linge” and “machine à laver” are equally common. The first is masculine and the second feminine. For dryers, “sèche-linge” is definitely most common, and is masculine. Of course this might be very different in Quebec or other french-speaking regions.

Ironically, the n°1 helicopter manufacturer in the world is a French company.