• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    HAM will work best for long distance communication but does not have enough capacity to support local short messaging for any major population sizes. Mesh networks scale in bandwidth and will not be overwhelmed as easily if tens of thousands of people suddenly hop on it at the same time.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      4 hours ago

      I think that Starlink covers a lot of disaster scenarios.

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          Starlink and the number of satellites we’ve got up there could absolutely cause a chain reaction if a few too many were destroyed.

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            Haha I didn’t mean that kind of disaster. But yes star link has the potential to wipe out a lot of LEO until the debris orbits all decay