How SpaceX's Starlink Could Help Mars Colonization?

The conquest in colonizing the red planet is going well and completion is just around the corner! So today, let’s talk about what could potentially slingshot our dreams of building our Martian empire, Starlink!
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In 2016, the United Nations expressed its dissent on how certain governments around the world are restricting internet access of people within its borders. As a response, they ratified a non-binding resolution condemning this, stating how rights of people are protected offline should also be as how they are protected online. From this story, it’s not difficult to predict that we are not far from declaring having access to the internet as a fundamental human right.

Stop for a minute and just think about how amazing that is. Having access to the internet comes as fundamental as having a shelter, or having clothes, or having food on the table? Can you imagine being revolutions starting from anywhere in the globe, or a group of people being sued just because internet access was severely restricted?

The Internet has definitely been elevated as probably the most important man-made creation of the modern age. I mean, can anybody even begin to fathom what our lives would be nowadays if the internet didn't exist? Especially with our situation that’s been going on since the past year, everyone has been staying at home. What would we do if we didn’t have the means to order groceries and food at the palm of our hands, or watch our favorite shows? There might be no way that I could reach out to you guys!

Now, if you think that is some level of suffering you can only wish to your worst enemy, I bet you would find it outrageous to know that there are still places all over the world where the privilege of dipping into that gigantic pool called the internet is not yet available. Over half of the total population, to be really specific. There’s a lot of work and cost involved in laying down cables, you know. On the average, if you’re a company aspiring to bring that good old internet to some unbaptized region somewhere in Tibet, you need to have around 27,000 for every mile that you want to place cables on. Now, if you’re a big telco company, and seeing how that from a business perspective would translate to a gigantic loss, it’s easy to sympathize. And that’s not even considering the fact that internationally, the reliance to fiber optic cable based internet is at a whopping 99%.
But we’re not giving mankind much credit if we’re going to think that this will be the end for those areas with no access to the internet. Of course, through our ever reliant ingenuity, we have come up with a solution to this by developing satellite internet. Does that solve the gap problem? Well, technically, yes. But there’s a caveat to it. The satellites need to stay at 36,000 kilometers above the ground, and at that height, the information relay is going to take a bit of time resulting in lag. If you’re a streamer or a professional e-sports athlete, you’re going to get out of business soon if this is the type of internet you’re gonna get.

This is why beloved modern day genius and esteemed monarch of the internet, Elon Musk, through the virtue of SpaceX, decided to step forward, wave at the gigantic crowd, and present an out of this world solution to this problem. It’s quite literally out of this world and you will see why later. Elon plans to fill in the gaps by launching a low-latency, high-speed, satellite internet
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Credits: Ron Miller
Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/ESA/ESO
Credits: Flickr

Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Overview
02:40 The Solution: Satellite Internet
03:11 Elon Musk and Starlink
04:53 Potential Issues with Starlink
07:49 Starlink's Role in Mars Colonization

#insanecuriosity #starlink #spacex

[InsaneCuriosity]

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[alderwolf]

SpaceX and Starlink are currently the best bet for sustainable space travel and exploration. It takes guts and lot's and lot's of money to progress and while government programs have lot's and lot's of money, they lack courage to fail and corruption is off the charts.

[MG-erdm]

Its great how Elon Musk is tackling one difficulty at a time and getting closer to Mars with each step. 🚀

[SaurabhVerma-ckxd]

Another good video from Insane Curiosity.

[juanespinola]

It's never been more within our reach than it is now, LETS GOO!!

[ajax]

Finally someone talks about this topic. We’ve heard enough of the starship and it’s development but not enough of the things they’re going to do when they actually get there.

[horizonbrave]

So....I do astrophotography for fun..and despite that I fully support Starlink. If my hobby being slightly harder will allow millions to get access to the internet and information, then that's something that shouldn't even be a question. That being said the danger of space debris and causing physical danger to us and those in space is something I didn't really consider heavily... the constant deorbiting and dead junk satellites does pose a problem... Each one needs a mini self detenation device, that will launch it out of orbit into space!

[ikajakonia]

the latency of the satellite internet (lag), is mainly caused by the distance of satellites beam that has to reach the customer and even if the source is exactly above of our head, the beam still has to travel a big distance, so can not understand, how the quantity of satellites can solve the latencys main problem!

[omamanaz]

I was looking forward to know about mars not for a summary of all the other videos I've watched please may more heed to always make the content according to the title
But overall I loved it especially with the fact that you added my beloved anime 😄

[SkillandLuckCRAPS]

The video that needs to be made is Will increasing the mass of Mars be the key that unlocks everything?

[mizzshortie]

Cool concept but there’s a lot more important issues that should be fixed first like making sure everyone has healthcare and food 🤷🏻‍♀️. As far as mars goes I am down, let’s do this !

[KaraokeDuov]

Why do you say "Let's have a conversation?" You never respond. You never heart anyone. So please, don't say that. Just do your video and continue on without making anyone think you actually give a damn. Pure and simple.

[dylanfonseca]

Imagine is the year 2070 and we already have a colony of one million people in Mars and also a small colony in Titan, also we have several submarine probes exploring the oceans of some of Jupiter and Saturn icy moons and we have already discovered some alien life in the solar system in the form of microbes also humanity is preparing the first crwed trip to "explore" neptune, pluto and their moons and that space ship is departing from Mars

[BillyTubes]

Starlink satellites are in such a low orbit they will never be space junk. If Spacex lost control of 1000 of them right now, they would all start to reenter the atmosphere within a year.

[supersecretsabayasociety]

You still didn't answer the question. If you did, it's not substantial.

[wannabeb]

Getting Starlink to Mars will be a necessity before people are there. Streaming video from there will be really profitable. SpaceX would probably make 100-500 million just from the pay-per-view or subscription of the first human mission. I'd be willing to pay $100 to see it. I suspect it'll be free though. Simplified communications for other missions would generate money as well.

[NicholasNerios]

Starlink constellations orbiting Earth, the moon and Mars will be a necessity with the development of new ai systems. So it's unavoidable as we move forward in technology, possibly starlink will capitalize Mars or possibly blue origin might throw in a version of their own.

Either way it's needed, sure there'll be lag so it wouldn't be the first choice for gamers or sports enthusiasts, but if it's all that's offered in the region then it is what it is.

Unless we want to start over from the industrial age.

[mfg]

What if it was completely black not transparent but didn’t reflect light at all? Apple has a coating like that I think.

[infinitumneo]

The latency time between the Earth and Mars is from 8 to as much as 40 minutes, depending on orbital positions.

[shanevaughn]

I'm not big on conspiracy theories but i do think it's weird how the samaritan's knew do much about Nibiru and all the supposed experts shoot the idea down but the only thing I've seen nasa prove is that there always wrong is it not possible that Nibiru could be the same as the mysterious black hole