I genuinely don't understand you. Ok so they go underground next to a road - then what? They freeze and explode? Or do you imply we can't afford to dig ditches but can afford to fire rockets?
It's significantly cheaper still. Cable is dirt cheap, technology of laying cable is mature and we already have roads developed to piggy back off infra off. Now think about satellites that only live a few years and are incredibly expensive and immature.
Basic all rural areas have fiber/cell towers in Asia. Depends how you measure it but like 90% of populated Asia is connected and most of these stats are only being held back by Russia too.
It's crazy how behind US is on that. Americans say "yeah but US is bjg and mostly empty space" so is Asia and the rest of the world yet they are not defeated by a cable. It's just cable laying - come on, we solved cable laying 50 years ago.
Vinyl is cool and cozy but I couldn't be bothered. It's a bad tech / product overall.
Too much space, too clunky of a tech to not lose interest in a few months and I don't believe there's an audio difference a human ear can notice. So you're just having a bunch of square posters that you sometimes look at - might as well just do posters then.
The whole point is war not helping consumers. Wire and cell towers are already not only cheaper but straight up better in every measure: latency, bandwidth, cost, maintenance, deployment, maturity.
You could literally cover entire land mass of earth for space x valuation with fiber and cell towers and still have left over money to do the ocean too.
This is why satelite internet is a dead end. The latency and bandwidth are fundamental limitations of physics which are incredibly expensive to scale up compare to cable and cell towers.
Even if we have a complete satellite roll out we'd still have to go back to cell towers for better latency. So why even entertain this detour if not for war machines - one niche where satellites are actually better.
Rail vacations are amazing for exploring. Here are my favorites:
Kyushu region in Japan is incredible on rail. In particular the Aso volcano area and anything south-east of it. Almost no one is there - you can get the front car and see in front of the train almost every trip. Incredible, super cheap, super underrated.
Taiwan has entire rail looping around it that you can do scenic 3 day journey and it's incredible especially during autumn or spring.
China has amazing routes but rail experience is pretty bad if you aren't alone with noise canceling headphones (people are really loud on Chinese trains). Chengdu to Kunming is my favorite route
Switzerland rail is still incredible despite being a bit packed and expensive but if you can afford it and find good timing it's incredible though Swiss towns are kinda boring once wow factor wears of - once you've seen one you've seen all.
In general rail tourism is incredible. Really cheap and accessible these days!
I disagree, most of that is very much manageable. You can age very gracefully if you invest into yourself. In fact I do much more in my 40s than I ever did.
I don't think that's true. Time is relative so it's only accelerating if you're in a comfy routine with fewer distinct points of reference. There's an easy fix for that.
It's traumatic for many. People start to realize that they actually age in their 30s and turn to weird shit because they don't know how to deal with trauma of aging.
Rampant discrimination against older people, especially women is crazy and something you don't fully notice until you or your peers are affected directly.
well there will be points <-> usd exchange just like japanese casinos which are totally not gambling and just let you win toys - don't mind the "we buy toys" shop right next door. This strategy is as old as time itself. Once you have this layer you can do so much manipulation and obfuscation.
I genuinely don't understand you. Ok so they go underground next to a road - then what? They freeze and explode? Or do you imply we can't afford to dig ditches but can afford to fire rockets?