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sky net is already up and running under Elon's SPaceX , they launched over a 1000 mini sats last year. I rememeber watching them being launched out over the west coast. It was facinating seeing a string of sats in a "train line" across the night sky. it must have be over 2000 miles long .

 

Anyways he's selling it as free or lowcost interenet service for impoverished countries.  but they are capable of 24/7 image recording which he can be sold to local state , cities Countries for policing and basic survailance of the people.

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Meh.  I see these as a tool to assist humans rather than replace.  I should clarify, their Spot robot and maybe that goofy looking one on wheels.    We all ready have a TON of automation in

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All I can say is there are around millions of jobs that are not and cannot be filled because people don't have the skills or trained. This is not because they can't get the skills or trained. It's be

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29 minutes ago, diyer2 said:

There are so many things a robot can't do and it will be years before they can. 

like what???

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no reason for human troops to be fresh anymore, you seem to think your needed,. the only human left on the battle field will be mechanics and he's on shaky ground too
Its not about being needed. It's about wanting to do it and being there.

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like what???

If you dont know then you believe the end of the human species is near because robots can do everything and better.

 

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You know what happens when there’s not enough work to sustain a population? It shrinks. The environmental people would be extremely happy.


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3 hours ago, flyingfool said:

no reason for human troops to be fresh anymore, you seem to think your needed,. the only human left on the battle field will be mechanics and he's on shaky ground too

A troop being "fresh" is a Cold War concept which is more effective today with all the technology.  This is not an even or, technology will keep a troop fresh whether military command structure knows it or not.  Troop numbers have downsized a bit because of technology, but won't be replaced because of technology.  Hollywood is the only place technology doesn't need a troop on the battlefield.  In the real world, human intelligence can't be replaced.  Although, it would be nice to have an android like "Data" (Star Trek Next Gen) working next to me.

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3 hours ago, flyingfool said:

sky net is already up and running under Elon's SPaceX , they launched over a 1000 mini sats last year. I rememeber watching them being launched out over the west coast.

In the last 30 yrs, launches from the Western Range have never been more than 36 per year, 20 of which had nothing to do with satellites.  Your information source is grossly inaccurate.  During my glory days, I was a member of a rocket launch Disaster Control Group.  

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In the last 30 yrs, launches from the Western Range have never been more than 36 per year, 20 of which had nothing to do with satellites.  Your information source is grossly inaccurate.  During my glory days, I was a member of a rocket launch Disaster Control Group.  

This might be what he was referring to:

https://www.kmov.com/news/see-a-string-of-lights-in-the-sky-it-was-probably-spacex-s-starlink-satellites/article_ca175fb8-88ff-11ea-acb9-63a781c28857.html

 

The 60 Starlink broadband satellites rode atop one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets, taking off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 3:30 pm ET. The devices are now coasting through orbit, where they will soon begin climbing to about 340 miles above ground, their operational altitude. This launch brings the total number of Starlink satellites in orbit to more than 400.

 

SpaceX has said the satellites will allow it to beam Internet directly to terminals that consumers will set up at their homes or offices. Service is expected to roll out in the United States and Canada this year, CEO Elon Musk has said. The company plans to eventually grow its constellation to more than 40,000 satellites, blanketing the entire planet in cheap, high-speed Internet connectivity.

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1 hour ago, The Zip said:

In the last 30 yrs, launches from the Western Range have never been more than 36 per year, 20 of which had nothing to do with satellites.  Your information source is grossly inaccurate.  During my glory days, I was a member of a rocket launch Disaster Control Group.  

what's inaccurate ?

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26 minutes ago, aseibel said:

This might be what he was referring to:

https://www.kmov.com/news/see-a-string-of-lights-in-the-sky-it-was-probably-spacex-s-starlink-satellites/article_ca175fb8-88ff-11ea-acb9-63a781c28857.html

 

The 60 Starlink broadband satellites rode atop one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets, taking off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 3:30 pm ET. The devices are now coasting through orbit, where they will soon begin climbing to about 340 miles above ground, their operational altitude. This launch brings the total number of Starlink satellites in orbit to more than 400.

 

SpaceX has said the satellites will allow it to beam Internet directly to terminals that consumers will set up at their homes or offices. Service is expected to roll out in the United States and Canada this year, CEO Elon Musk has said. The company plans to eventually grow its constellation to more than 40,000 satellites, blanketing the entire planet in cheap, high-speed Internet connectivity.

Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the Eastern Range launching into a different orbit than the Western Range.  He said he remember watching these launches from the West Coast.  There is no way he could see these KSC launches from LA?

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15 minutes ago, The Zip said:

Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the Eastern Range launching into a different orbit than the Western Range.  He said he remember watching these launches from the West Coast.  There is no way he could see these KSC launches from LA?

I'm no rocket scientist, I don't even know which way they go once they are airborne, but I do know people in Wisconsin who could see the string of lights from a recent launch. We're pretty far from America's wang up here. Just saying they could be seen from a ways off- not the launch itself, but when they went overhead.

 

Here's the story from a local news station. https://waow.com/2020/04/27/spot-a-line-of-lights-in-the-night-sky-its-most-likely-spacex-starlink-satellites/

 

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28 minutes ago, flyingfool said:

what's inaccurate ?

As a member of a Launch Disaster Control Group (LDCG), you are on the ground in close proximity to a rocket launch.  I have been a member of the LDCG for over 300 rocket and missile launches.  In the best year of the Western Range, there was no more than 3 launches per month.  You watching 1000 launches from the Western range is inaccurate.  That's an average of 83 per month, not possible.

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23 minutes ago, The Zip said:

As a member of a Launch Disaster Control Group (LDCG), you are on the ground in close proximity to a rocket launch.  I have been a member of the LDCG for over 300 rocket and missile launches.  In the best year of the Western Range, there was no more than 3 launches per month.  You watching 1000 launches from the Western range is inaccurate.  That's an average of 83 per month, not possible.

Did you read the article I shared? It said 60 mini satellites were launched on 1 Falcon 9 rocket. So not 1000 launches, but 1000 satellites in total. 

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1 hour ago, aseibel said:

Did you read the article I shared? It said 60 mini satellites were launched on 1 Falcon 9 rocket. So not 1000 launches, but 1000 satellites in total. 

I read what you wrote, but don't click on untrusted links.  Subject got off track for a minute, I have no more comments about rocket launches.

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8 hours ago, The Zip said:

Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the Eastern Range launching into a different orbit than the Western Range.  He said he remember watching these launches from the West Coast.  There is no way he could see these KSC launches from LA?

i'm telling you what i saw,  on the west coast Los Angeles San Pedro area. I stood there for "20 minutes"  1 hour after sunset. watching a conga line of sats cruising by West to East..at least 1000 units.  no way will 60 mini sats traverse the sky for this long of a duration. while flying by at a steady speed of a normal satalite in orbit, they where all perfectly spaced probably 50 mile separation.  some one has an interesting project up there if its not  SpaceX stuff.

on a side note, i had a super bright led focusing flashlight and set it to pulse mode. and managed to train it on a few of them. interesting enough one sat pulled off the conga line stopped and gave a relfective flash back at me, then continued back in the group

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