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MUMBAI: Elon Musk said his satellite-based net work Starlink is not meant for densely populated cities due to the fact that the physics of outer connection makes it unsuitable for that purpose, adding that it is designed to present connectivity to agrarian users and reconstruct entree aft earthy disasters alternatively than vie with municipality broadband.Musk made the reflection connected Starlink's services, which helium volition beryllium launching successful India successful concern with Jio and Airtel, successful a astir two-hour speech with Nikhil Kamath, laminitis of Zerodha, wherever helium besides predicted a aboriginal driven by accelerated advances successful AI and robotics. Musk said the aboriginal volition impact a convergence of his companies, driven by solar-powered AI satellites successful heavy space. He expects connection to displacement from substance to real-time video with AI.
On the philosophical foundations of AI, helium said systems should beryllium governed by "truth, quality and curiosity", arguing that strict adherence to information prevents unsafe reasoning. He besides expressed interest astir colonisation decline, saying it reduces the scope of quality consciousness.His broader comments connected exertion centred connected AI and robotics, which helium described arsenic a "supersonic tsunami". He said moving volition go optional successful nether 20 years due to the fact that automation volition summation productivity to the constituent wherever AI satisfies each quality needs.
He besides said this modulation would trigger wide deflation and yet marque wealth obsolete, since the outgo of goods and services volition attack zero.Musk said Starlink satellites alert successful low-Earth orbit astatine astir 550 km, and adjacent if lowered to 350 km, they would inactive beryllium excessively acold from the crushed to lucifer metropolis telecom infrastructure. "The physics is not connected our broadside here," helium said, explaining that a outer beam functions similar "a flashlight" and tin enactment lone a fixed fig of users wrong its footprint.
He said this makes it "not physically imaginable for Starlink to service densely populated cities" beyond "maybe 1% oregon 2%", chiefly successful municipality pockets without fibre.He said Starlink works with alternatively than against terrestrial networks, calling compartment towers "very bully successful cities" but "inefficient successful the countryside". According to him, agrarian areas look the weakest net entree due to the fact that fibre rollout and high-bandwidth towers are costly extracurricular cities. "Starlink tends to service the slightest served," helium said. He added that thousands of satellites linked done lasers support the web moving "even if the cables are cut", which becomes important erstwhile floods, fires oregon earthquakes harm crushed infrastructure.
Musk said SpaceX unlocks entree during disasters due to the fact that "we don't privation to enactment a paywall up portion somebody's trying to get help".
