> 'My kids had to see a power line going through the country side'
replyA lot of people get upset about such things, even those are rather more important than just adding to the world's existing widespread internet access.
Wind turbines and solar farms is another one. It’s same people who whinge about crying babies on plane.
replyAll of those three examples are also rather more important than Starlink.
replyStarlink is cool, and has some niches, but this is a fairly limited argument in its favour.
All three are greener variant of what was already available. Alternatives to starlink weren’t really available.
reply> you should be celebrating what Elon and his companies have achieved
replyThe level of servility of some people never ceases to amaze me. This sentence is viscerally repulsive to me.