(that’s bad)

The conversion therapy contains potassium benzoate.

How much coverage do we want? Global or just the continent+ a bit more?

I admit I don’t know much about orbital physics, but I don’t see how you can have consistent coverage of Europe 24 hours per day and low pings comparable to Starlink without also covering the entire globe. Geosynchronous or sun synchronous orbits require a minimum ping of 240ms, round trip.

Eutelsat has geosynchronous orbits, which allows them to provide service over a much larger area per satellite and doesn’t require very many satellites to serve a consistent geographical area as the earth rotates and the satellites orbit the earth.

Problem is, though, geosynchronous orbit is 35,786 km altitude. Light travels at 3.0 x 10^8 m/s. So any signal takes 120ms to get to the satellite, and 120 ms to return. Any signal is going to have a 240ms latency at a minimum, and that’s just physics.

Starlink satellites have an altitude closer to 600 km. Light only takes about 2ms to get to that altitude, and 2ms to return. So the satellites add only about 4ms, which makes for easier and more seamless communication.

In order to compete with starlink for most typical Internet applications, it’ll require a bunch more satellites orbiting at much lower altitudes.

Instead of blaming a victim, why don’t you get on the case of whoever made the post, for having an incomplete summary instead.

The summary contained what the person who posted it thought was important. You thought something else was important and then started making up conjecture about that, instead of looking it up yourself.

This is clown behavior. You’re not a victim of anything but your own ignorance. Digging in your heels, intentionally obtuse to the facts of the story you want to speculate about, is not productive. If you didn’t know, you’re welcome to look up the facts yourself, instead of claiming in multiple comments throughout this thread that this lady was a midwife performing surgical abortions, and that the actual charged conduct compares to the days of back alley abortions.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/houston-texas-midwife-arrested-abortions-clinics/285-b028b728-0db8-4e4f-9255-7f6f11c77f47

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/17/texas-abortion-midwife-arrested/

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/texas-midwife-abortion-investigation-update-20227667.php

https://www.thecut.com/article/texas-abortion-arrest-maria-margarita-rojas-midwife.html

You’re welcome.

The article is paywalled, and I cannot read it, so I’m determining my opinion based on what I read in the summary of this post

Here’s a suggestion: how about instead of forming your opinion based on known incomplete data, you decide instead to just, like, not form an opinion at all until you get that information, much less spout off based on your own speculation.

She wouldn’t have been arrested for dispensing legally obtainable pills, normaly.

???

They made abortion illegal in Texas. She performed abortions in the manner that is legal elsewhere, using a procedure that matches the standard of care where it is legal, under training and qualifications that are sufficient elsewhere. So she was arrested for dispensing pills normally and in the manner that they are regulated elsewhere. This is the safe and legal method elsewhere, and was the safe and legal method in Texas until recently.

Comparing it to back alley abortions is intentionally misleading to the point of dishonesty.

There’s no surgery involved.

Not for the mid/late-term ones.

She…didn’t perform any of those. I’m going off of the facts of what she is being accused of doing in the criminal charges.

You’re up and down this thread misrepresenting the facts here.

These are medication abortions, and the safety of those procedures is pretty well established, especially when supervised at a clinic. There’s no surgery involved.

It’s not a kill switch, but a “stay alive” switch that can only be pressed by the United States, and needs to be pressed every year.