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yesod commented on BT Tower is to be turned into a hotel ianvisits.co.uk/articles/... · Posted by u/beardyw

timthorn · 2 years ago

Not mentioned is the fact that the BT Tower was designed to be a node in the microwave backbone network. There are landmark towers across the country, though no others are also restaurants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Telecom_microwave_netw...

yesod · 2 years ago

I've not plotted it myself, but I'm told that if you plot the links to other main microwave nodes, and then look at embassies from foreign nations....

yesod commented on Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss 404media.co/bored-ape-yac... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

whycome · 2 years ago

You would think the pain would be immediate though.

yesod · 2 years ago

Its like a sunburn blister. Takes a while to develop, usually whilst you're asleep. When you wake up, you open your eyes and rip the blisters open. I'm told it feels like hot sand being poured in your eyes at that point. Definitely one to avoid!

yesod commented on Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss 404media.co/bored-ape-yac... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

yesod · 2 years ago

Sounds very much like arc eye (welder's flash). Very painful, caused by UV.

yesod commented on IRIS²: The EU’s Response to Musk’s Starlink reneweuropegroup.eu/news/... · Posted by u/thm

amm · 3 years ago

Too little, too expensive, too late?

Once again the EU is playing catch up with last gen tech. Starlink is almost 10 years old - conceptually even older. Iridium has been around for over 25 years.

If the EU was serious, it should have invested proactively in next gen satellite direct to device tech that is around the corner in the US.

AST SpaceMobile is close to starting commercial activity for satellite based 5G that is supposed to work with any smart phone. Starlink is working on something similar with T-Mobile. G-Sat already has minimal D2D capability working with the latest iPhone generation.

Also, I wonder where cost competitive launch capability is going to come from for launching hundreds of satellites. Russia? China?

yesod · 3 years ago

6 years ago the ESA and Arianespace were ridiculing reusable rockets, even as SpaceX was getting closer and closer to the non-RUD landing. Ariane 6 yet to launch, now trying to retrofit some level of reusability. Too slow, too stuck with their views... From my perspective, the 40ms I get from Starlink is worlds better then the 900ms I got from my 128kb/s Iridium Pilot (now in the skip).