Submitted 3 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.wired.com/story/us-navy-starlink-sea2/
The Navy is testing out the Elon Musk–owned satellite constellation to provide high-speed internet access to sailors at sea. It’s part of a bigger project that’s about more than just getting online.
Archived version: archive.ph/X9Xr0
Perfect now they can sit on the toilet while scrolling through their phones in the middle of the Atlantic now too!
You assume they didn’t already? They knew they were up for a 6mo deployment and stockpiled porn and pirated video to accomodate.
Oh I’m sure they are especially the poor saps on nuclear submarines. But now the guys on ships can get the fresh stuff off onlyfans and whatever the new fmovies is. Hooray for living in the future!
I’m going to laugh when the 2034 Chinese-American War sees the US Navy get wiped out on Day 1 to a drone swarm following hacked Starlink connections. Bitches just don’t learn.
Elon would just sell out. No hacking needed. Just too much “free speech” for him to handle.
Great, so we’re giving him more money. Gdi.
drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 3 months ago
Isn’t it fucking weird that we are using a privately owned satellite network to run our military’s internet rather than a network entirely in our control?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
US military already controls all GPS satellites for military operations. For that reason, EU has its own Galileo system, Russia has Glonass and China has Beidou.
While this would be for non-operational stuff only, it’s still a bad look and reason to look into finances of people making this decision.