I remember the original en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic proposal in the 90s sounding extremely ambitious with 840 satellites.
I remember the original en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic proposal in the 90s sounding extremely ambitious with 840 satellites.
@ID_AA_Carmack Even when Starlink was announced I think we all thought it was all but impossible. Engineering is amazing.
@ID_AA_Carmack I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings. -Stanley Kubrick
@ID_AA_Carmack John, what do you think about the opinion of Elon on actual VR? @elonmusk
@ID_AA_Carmack Thank you for making the best game ever (Quake 3)
@ID_AA_Carmack @drethelin Which spawned a bunch of reusable launch vehicle companies. Teledesic would require so many flights the business case would close.
@ID_AA_Carmack This is one of those times where anti competition laws suck i dont think we should be sending so much up. I personally think we should limit how many we have floating around for obvious reasons. Imagine once bazos gets his thousands up there too. Then more companies.
@ID_AA_Carmack All I remember from back in the days was Iridium or something like that.