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SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million::Starlink has a fraction of the projected $12B revenue and 20M users, WSJ says.

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[–] SkyezOpen 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Countries like Russia could make an argument for attacking these satellites.

Russia's best shot would be accidentally crashing a lunar lander into one.

[–] charliespider 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'd probably fail at that too

[–] demlet 5 points 1 year ago

They just need to try and land on one, that's the trick.

[–] Illuminostro -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like when the US crashed a lander into Mars. Good times.

[–] SkyezOpen 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uhh, yeah in 1999. Proving yet again that Russia is stuck 20+ years behind us technologically.

[–] Illuminostro -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"But... but... muh daddy can beat up yur daddy!"

Brilliant.

[–] SkyezOpen 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah if your daddy keeps kicking over neighbor's fences I'd certainly hope my daddy could beat him up. Cope.