Now I want someone to Air Bud this by passing info to @JortsTheCat. “The NDA didn’t say I can’t share details with a cat.”
“I’m out, Elon, I’m not going to be your client anymore, you’re fired,” but Musk basically replies with “please list your complaints and i will dismiss each of them”
Even in the face of all Musk’s money, Sir Elton Hercules John CH CBE is still more famous and influential than Musk will ever be
Musk has been judged, and he’s desperate to somehow reverse roles
The company lists fewer ads and prioritization in search and replies as “coming soon.”
They claim paying the subscription will later decrease ads by 50%. It seems to me the easiest way to reach that would be to add something now which doubles the frequency of promoted tweets, then just turn that off. Especially after AdAge (paywalled) pointed out on the 2nd they were selling impressions for half the price.
Twitter told U.S. advertisers on Thursday it would match their December campaign investments of $500,000 or up to $1 million in incremental reach; so, if an advertiser spends $1 million on the platform in December, it will get $2 million worth of impressions, and if an advertiser spends $500,000, it will get $1 million in impressions, according to two buyers briefed on the offer. Those buyers said if advertisers spend $350,000, they will be matched 50%, and if they spend $250,000, they will be matched 25%. There were also separate offers for the U.K., Japan and the “rest of world” the buyers said.
Isn’t that called Tumblr?
If they’re going to increase the posting limit, they should include some kind of markup.
And hooray for moderators!
i wonder if the satellites eventually burn up and astronomers get the night sky back
It doesn’t seem like a complicated calculation. Bandwidth needed per customer and what resources needed.
It’s not rocket surgery.
Jonathan McDowell has been keeping track of megaconstellations. Starlink has repeatedly had trouble with achieving and maintaining the orbits their satellites were prescribed, but the percentage of failed satellites remains small (other than a batch that lost 10 of 13). And satellites can be disposed of by sending them further from the planet, so they’ll still be in the sky for some time. Plus, there’s OneWeb, and another one coming from AST SpaceMobile.
From the Motley Fool article, though:
Every time the company launches another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit, though, it’s using up space on a Falcon 9 rocket that it could otherwise sell to private customers at up to $67 million per launch.
SpaceX rockets are also being used to launch OneWeb satellites.
That doesn’t sound like disposal, unless it extends the low point into the atmosphere.
It takes less energy to boost a satellite to a graveyard orbit than it does to deliberately deorbit (as opposed to allowing the orbit to decay naturally)
Fortunately, SpaceX and OneWeb at least told the FCC they would deorbit into the atmosphere. But, graveyard orbits are real.
Is there a reason they can’t be a midnight blue color or some such?
They use radio, not visible light.
Solar panels are very reflective. Thats the main cause of their brightness.
Thanks. That sounds like a waste of energy that could allow less weight to be lifted if solved.
Maybe some “genius” with skin in the game could work on non reflective panels?
It’s just a parking orbit out of the way of most current space activities. It’ll be somebody else’s problem eventually.
