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> Imagine being able to see live video, or AI enhanced video (movement detection, etc). A lot more bandwidth will open up many areas for innovation.

For what benefit?

> Imagine being able to get real-time data of patients being transported in planes or ground vehicles.

This is a very niche use case.

> But there is not much data about wind patterns, directions, barometric pressure, etc. Satellites can observe on a macro level. If you can combine that with micro level ground data, perhaps predictions for weather would be more accurate.

I'm sorry but this is incredibly ignorant. There's a huge volume of data that's fed into several global weather modeling supercomputers continuously. That's literally where the weather forecasts on your tv come from.

> Perhaps, but periodic photos, would be possible, and that would be enough for many innovations.

You still aren't getting it. There are fundamental physical limits to image resolution based on the size of the optics. You'd have trouble resolving individual creatures even with a telescope the scale of Hubble/KeyHole. Starlink changes nothing about this.

> However, this is different because there are billions being spent to send actual satellites to space.

The hype is people speculating on applications like the above that are entirely implausible and unrealistic. It's on the same scale as thinking the next Tesla is going to be a flying delorian with fusion power.

> But Imagine if you could have one.

But you just aren't fantasizing, you're claiming these fantasies will become real in the short term without understanding the limitations that preclude them.

> Would it be too far fetched to think that those can be shrunk down, perhaps to the size of a suitcase or a backpack?

Yes, it is too far fetched. You cannot shrink a wavelength. In addition, starlink's design requires the transmission/received lobes have a certain maximum beam width. The global capacity of the system depends on this parameter. That means they need phased arrays of a certain minimum size in terms of array area and number of array elements to meet their specs.

> But, when the iPhone was made, the app store, as a concept was at best, a theoretical idea in Jobs' mind.

There were examples of app stores before iPhone. That wasn't a unique new concept.




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