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Canada desperately needs a national strategic internet constellation.

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[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Correctamundo. You can't speed up light. For low latency you need LEO, and since they don't sit still for you (8km/s roughly) you need a bunch of them in some kind of formation or constellation, so that you generally have something to connect to at any given moment, or at least a chain that can relay to ground stations.

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Kessler syndrome has entered the chat

We could be architechting our own Great Filter (assuming we've not passed it already, and assuming we can't solve the Kessler syndrome).

Some light reading for those unfamiliar:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I think Kessler is rather less of a concern than global climate change.

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Yea I can see that, we can live comfortably on earth with Kessler syndrome but some carrington event and already struggling populace would probably set us back a century at least and wed be trapped on earth nearly forever, or until we can solve Kessler syndrome

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