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Agree that this is currently mainly just useful for news (and filtering out low-quality news sites) but it isn't quite there yet when it comes to researching start-up creation.


Exactly. I also think it's thinking about how much extra worth those time spend really benefits your life, compared to how much it creates noise in your brain.


I wonder if this also means future astronauts will have wifi when launching to moon/mars. Imagine watching watching a movie while taking off to somewhere distant


You could just.. not stream it?

Like large planes on long distance routes (at least) have shown films for decades, and we watched films from discs or cassettes at home before broadband internet.


> Imagine watching watching a movie while taking off to somewhere distant

A movie is only a few GB - you can already store them locally on your phone.


Haha sorry my bad


Starlink antennas only aim downward so no it can't even be used to talk to other satellites/spacecraft, let alone the moon. Though there are planned tests to try to link to the network via the laser connections, but that would require being relatively nearby, at least with the current design.

Also even if it was facing upwards, the entire reason why they're using LEO satellites is to get low latency to get network performance similar to what you get with terrestrial service. If you're far away from the Earth then none of that is true.


This kinda implies we haven't invented local storage yet


Shhh. Local storage is a secret. The modern internet economy is based on profiting from "on demand" content delivered over a connection that can be monitized... and cut off for non-payment. Privately-hosted content like CDs or hard drives will soon be outlawed. Buy a NAS now while ypu still can.


Imagine being able to watch a movie without internet access... maybe one day.


Mars is 3 minutes away at the speed of light at it's closest. So e-mails at best.


> 3 minutes away

That's latency, not throughput. Streaming a pre-filmed movie is sensitive to the latter, not the former.


If only they'd invent a way to watch movies without streaming them!


And I am even more excited by thinking about what the internet will look like in 2031


Based on past experience, it is going to look a lot like the internet of today. Things just don't move that fast that 9 years will make much of a difference.


Like the internet today, but with more ads, more sponsored content, and more AI generated submarines.


Those submarines are going to be pretty sweet.


For those unfamiliar, not as wet as you might think: <http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13993>


Even the Rosetta/Philae images of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko are out of this world!

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Rosett...


From that link:

Launch: 2 March 2004

Mission end: 30 September 2016

Then, a bit lower on the page: 786 days in space

Huh? Anyone got insights on what type of math was used here? Is there mm/inch type conversion problem? Am I just dumb? 12 years * 365 > 786.


786 days is time spent in the vicinity of the comet. From 6 August 2014 (arrival at comet) to 30 September 2016 (mission end).


But that's not what the words say. "In space" is stated specifically, not "Time in orbit" or some such. You're being very very generous


I can imagine that is type of things are the best possible way to visualize the scales that we are living in.

Would love to see something similar for bigger dimensions, e.g. distance to the nearest star, galaxy or exoplanet.


Same here, not using YouTube's built in search function eliminates most of the ad and also recommendations problems. I use You.com since they additionally show Reddit and TikTok results which I sometimes find more useful than YT videos.


Tens of millions of people have been waiting for years for GTA VI to release and i am pretty sure that despite this leak people will be extremly for it to launch.


Many mountain regions with beautiful hiking paths will remain disconnected from internet access for quite some time. So if you are fit enough, I strongly suggest to hike. You and everyone you are hiking with, will have no option to check mails or slack. It is also a great way to connect and spend time with family and friends.

https://www.alaska.org/tours https://you.com/search?q=alaska+hiking+trails


> Many mountain regions with beautiful hiking paths will remain disconnected from internet access for quite some time.

SpaceX also just partnered with TMobile to bring direct-to-phone satellite internet. It'll probably take a while to happen, and the announced specs are pretty limited, but it's basically going to be everywhere.


Certainly there are places without Internet access. That said, as someone who leads group hikes, I'm not sure I could in good conscience advise people, in general, to just leave their phones at home when they go hiking if they want to get off the grid. And, if I was regularly in remote places with no cell phone reception these days, I'd probably think something like a Garmin InReach was probably a good idea.


And also exactly in those places internet is most needed

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1124283/internet-penetra...


I assume that the number of people willing to pay $50-100 per month there is not that high, though


If the minimum price you can pay for Starlink is $50 and they think of themselves as a "global service", then do I have news for them...


$50 a month shared by a whole village. Not so bad.


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