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SpaceX Launches 60 More Starlink Internet Satellites from Cape Canaveral

posted by Fnord666 on Monday October 26 2020, @03:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-inconceivable-has-become-commonplace dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:

SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral:

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 more Starlink internet relay satellites on Saturday, boosting the total number launched to date to 895 as the company builds out a planned constellation of thousands designed to provide global high-speed broadband service.

Running two days late because of an on-board camera issue, the Falcon 9's twice-flown first stage thundered to life at 11:31 a.m. EDT, pushing the 229-foot-tall rocket away from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It was the California rocket builder's 19th launch so far this year and its 15th Starlink flight.

[...] With Saturday's launch, SpaceX has put 895 Starlinks into orbit, 180 of them — more satellites than any other company owns — in less than three weeks.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Username on Tuesday October 27 2020, @12:00AM (1 child)

    by Username (4557) on Tuesday October 27 2020, @12:00AM (#1069122)

    So you're basically saying, whatabout whataboutism? It seems you like whataboutism as well.

    What a nonsensical term.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday October 27 2020, @11:25AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday October 27 2020, @11:25AM (#1069244) Homepage
    No I'm saying "your argument does not address my prior argument, and therefore is out of place".
    Which is also written "that's whataboutism".

    The latter is shorter. Therefore it's even better than the original phrase it stands for.

    If you think it's nonsensical, that's because of some mental inadequacy within your own cranium, and nothing to do with the word itself. Language evolves, get over it.
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