<story><title>Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/elon-musk-tweets-using-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tpmx</author><text>I saw something interesting the other day that I had previously missed:&lt;p&gt;Starlink has the potential to provide lower latency around the globe than terrestrial fiber because light travels faster in vacuum than in optical silica fiber.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discovery.ucl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;eprint&amp;#x2F;10062262&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;discovery.ucl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;eprint&amp;#x2F;10062262&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;mjh&amp;#x2F;starlink-draft.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk&amp;#x2F;mjh&amp;#x2F;starlink-draft.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We conclude that a network built in this manner can provide lower latency communications than any possible terrestrial optical fiber network for communications over distances greater than about 3000 km.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Elon Musk tweets using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/elon-musk-tweets-using-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jniedrauer</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m really excited about this technology for selfish reasons. I love disconnecting and spending time in remote wildernesses. But paradoxically, being disconnected from technology gives me a lot of anxiety about technology. Working on devops roles over the last decade, I&amp;#x27;ve almost never had a time when I can just forget about it all. Even when I&amp;#x27;m not on call, and no matter how well I try to document things, I&amp;#x27;m often the one with the answers. When things break, I need to be able to step in. Being able to go off the grid, while still being able to step in when SHTF, would increase my quality of life significantly.</text></comment>