arto an hour ago

It is during a Starlink outage that one ought to cultivate the proper perspective about it, remembering to appreciate the technological miracle and marvel that it is.

This message beamed to space from an undisclosed location and distributed globally within a split second. (Now that service is restored.)

  • bad_haircut72 an hour ago

    Not a time to get philosophical when your drone team on the zero line in Ukraine loses comms

    • tjpnz 2 minutes ago

      Which is why they don't use it for that. Too susceptible to jamming and what Elon's politics are on a given day.

    • bruffen 24 minutes ago

      Drone operators aren't human, who cares.

  • Joel_Mckay 13 minutes ago

    The Suns 11-year cycle is hitting the ionosphere hard right now.

    Great for Ham Radio bounce contacts, but a lot of space equipment won't do well. =3

    People still don't really know why the sun hasn't accidentally cooked us thus far:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r5ZCESOpP0

thallium205 2 hours ago

Looks like they restored service.

  • Joel_Mckay 9 minutes ago

    The solar flares in the 11-year cycle are at their peak activity.

    There will be random outages for any space based equipment for awhile. =3

merlincorey 2 hours ago

Was the website the only thing down?

This community Starlink Status page doesn't seem to show any outage: https://starlinkstatus.space/

  • mlyle 2 hours ago

    The funny thing with the community status page is that stations can't report they're down when they're down :P There's big holes in individual stations' history and it looks normal.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/ paints a different picture

    Perhaps due to geomagnetic storms, though stronger ones have not caused outages. Possibly just because.

152334H 2 hours ago

what's supposed to be inferred from the link? I only see the homepage.

notorandit 2 hours ago

Done

  • auggierose an hour ago

    I like the Bladerunner reference in your about.

    • Joel_Mckay 3 minutes ago

      Yeah, but the Blade Runner Replicants lived longer than most most FANG coders churn positions.

      One of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time. =3

roschdal an hour ago

Why rely on something as flaky as the Internet for anything important?

  • throwaway019254 an hour ago

    Not sure if sarcasm or flame bait.

    • rowanG077 an hour ago

      I don't think it's either? Internet outages are relatively common. I wouldn't want my pacemaker or ventilator to just stop working if there is an internet outage for example. So I agree with them, for anything important(or rather extremely high availability) you don't depend on the internet.

      • bbarnett 41 minutes ago

        I was curious if any aspect of local hospitals, required the internet to validate licenses, for example.

        I wouldn't be surprised if stupidly, something important did.