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So because someone else was also offering a solution, Starlink is the stunt? Is literally everything in life a stunt if someone has done it before you?

walrus01 6y ago
They literally set it up at the one place in town that already had working Internet access and power. On top of the generator of the entity already providing such. Yes, that's a stunt.
- MPSimmons 6y ago
  Do you think there was only one? They definitely made it sound as though they had more than one in this CNBC article - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/washington-emergency-responders-use-spacex-starlink-satellite-internet.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/washington-emergency-respond...
  - walrus01 6y ago
    I don't doubt they're using it, just that one particular photo was possibly the worst possible choice for PR. Take a photo of one out in a field being powered from portable equipment with a Honda 2000 inverter-generator or something. The location of Malden works for them because with the current bent pipe satellite architecture, and starlink earth stations in Redmond, North Bend and Brewster, the beta-test CPEs are simultaneously in view of satellites that can also see the earth stations. Activating a temporary CPE in Malden is no different than the same equipment that's been in field beta test with spacex's redmond based employees around WA state for several months now. And it's at a sufficiently high latitude that the partially-complete satellite network density, at any given point in time, is denser above Malden than above a place several degrees latitude further south.
serf 6y ago
>Is literally everything in life a stunt if someone has done it before you? it's a stunt when it's done to trigger the photo-op, rather than the other way around.
- seattledev 6y ago
  Glad to know you have psychic abilities to know whether the photo op was the main motivation or not. Hope you use your abilities for good and not evil.
woah 6y ago
Let me guess: you own Tesla stock
- xedeon 6y ago
  Tesla != Starlink/SpaceX

walrus01 6y ago

They literally set it up at the one place in town that already had working Internet access and power. On top of the generator of the entity already providing such. Yes, that's a stunt.

MPSimmons 6y ago
Do you think there was only one? They definitely made it sound as though they had more than one in this CNBC article - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/washington-emergency-responders-use-spacex-starlink-satellite-internet.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/washington-emergency-respond...
- walrus01 6y ago
  I don't doubt they're using it, just that one particular photo was possibly the worst possible choice for PR. Take a photo of one out in a field being powered from portable equipment with a Honda 2000 inverter-generator or something. The location of Malden works for them because with the current bent pipe satellite architecture, and starlink earth stations in Redmond, North Bend and Brewster, the beta-test CPEs are simultaneously in view of satellites that can also see the earth stations. Activating a temporary CPE in Malden is no different than the same equipment that's been in field beta test with spacex's redmond based employees around WA state for several months now. And it's at a sufficiently high latitude that the partially-complete satellite network density, at any given point in time, is denser above Malden than above a place several degrees latitude further south.

serf 6y ago

>Is literally everything in life a stunt if someone has done it before you? it's a stunt when it's done to trigger the photo-op, rather than the other way around.

seattledev 6y ago
Glad to know you have psychic abilities to know whether the photo op was the main motivation or not. Hope you use your abilities for good and not evil.

woah 6y ago

Let me guess: you own Tesla stock

xedeon 6y ago
Tesla != Starlink/SpaceX