Eli5 Why can’t we use airplanes to create a starlink like internet?
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We basically did at one point, if you replace wireless internet with atomic bombs. The United States Stretegic air command had planes capable of dropping nukes on Moscow in the air pretty much 24/7 for years. Eventually, ICBM’s and the fall of the USSR removed the need for it, but it’s not something that couldn’t be done today, it would just be prohibitively expensive.
It’s kind of like saying that the Pyramids would be impossible to build today. You could absolutely build the Pyramids today, it would just be expensive. The ancient Egyptians had a labor force that was regularly unoccupied while the Nile had flooded their fields. You could absolutely build the Pyramids today, but the cost of labor and materials make it undesirable for anyone to actually do so.
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