[ih] SpaceX Starlink in Ukraine and RELCOM during the Soviet coup attempt

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Larry Press wrote in
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 |The limited, but significant role of SpaceX Starlink in Ukraine:
 |https://circleid.com/posts/20220308-spacex-starlink-in-ukraine-a-week-later

Especially on the day where Germany announced to buy F-35 jet
fighters (and more then hopefully functioning Eurofighters, which
i would personally have _very much_ preferred) with i think highly
sophisticated electronic warfare it would be interesting whether
military forces who really desire to would be able to completely
"turn off the heaven".

I personally totally oppose this massive satellitisation which
requires hundreds of rocket starts.  May the French friend who is
also on this list defend the (very much smaller) French series of
satellites which was/is being brought up to space for the very
same purpose or not.

I mean even in the scientists in the antarctic have internet, may
it be slow, it seems sufficient to do science there.  For such
purposes, yes, i go with that.  Military of all sorts i cannot
prevent as much as their friendly fire.  But private households?
Maybe somewhere in a desert or what, but for us in Europe?  For
the American west or east coast, for -- what do i know of that --
Texas, Arizona?  Thousands of satellites?  Is that better than
directional radion here and there or some cables along railways?
Really??  In my opinion: no.

 |Reminds me of the role of RELCOM during the Soviet coup attempt of 1991:
 |https://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/01/before-twitter-revolutions-there-was\
 |.html

You know.  I think it is a philosophical issue, if you really do
not want to name it a religious one.  I could show you many people
in my personal neighbourhood who somehow have the desire for
freedom, for expression, but they do not feel free.  This is not
about the two million children who need "additional food care", or
the ten million Germans who in the meantime work in the low wages
sector, this is not about our disrespectful dealing with one
another, with other animals, with nature.  Or maybe the latter
three things a bit.  This is not about "you get what you deserve."
So these two administrators had a "success!", that is great.  You
like the western world regardless of the mentioned, and i did not
talk about all the addictions at all, and not only meaning drugs
like alcohol or whatever, or consumption as such, that is also
great.  But different cultures have different values, and
i personally am totally fine with that.  Then again people are
a bit the same everywhere, and you will find in America people who
would possibly fit better into a society like Russia, or Germany,
or Italy, as well as you find quite some Russians who would die
for having the all-american experience.  You know.  What i mean
is, i think, that the Christians live in parables, and Israel and
the Temple Mount are possibly just a state of mind, and that is
the real freedom people should be endorsed in and guided to, and
which society should jointly strive for, and one should look for
the three fingers that point back rather than always target with
the one pointing somewhere else.  And if you desire sovereignity
for yourself, and somehow gain it, then you should not prohibit
others the same conditions, but have the splendor to live in peace
and mutual respect.  I guess that is a bit John Lennon and Imagine
though.

And though all off-topic, i also dislike battery powered cars.
We all need hydrogen and fuel-cell technology, and graceful
sustainability.  And it was the Club of Rome who said that 50
years ago, and it was in the word "technology" that Al Gore said
in the TV duel for the presidentship.  But mind you, i did not
believe that will work out almost a decade earlier.  You know,
even earlier, i read in a book of a wonderful journalist i think
(such things _did_ exist when i was young) the words of a black
Bishop of somewhere in Africa (i do not know whether i would find
the thing) saying "in the year 2700 the white man will have
destroyed life on earth, and then the time of the africans begin",
and .. i overwhelmingly believed him that this is the truth.

Have a nice evening.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)