Starlink
satellite constellation; space-based internet communication system
Episodes
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#5710: Tristan da Cunha: Life on the World's Most Remote Island222 people, one village, and a dialect that conjugates like a single person — what life is actually like on the world's most remote inhabited island.Main topic -
#5247: Why HF Radio Still Matters When Networks FailHF and shortwave are the same band — and it's the only comms path no host nation can switch off. Here's why it persists. -
#5794: Starfish Prime: When the US Nuked SpaceIn 1962, the US detonated a 1.4-megaton warhead 400 km above the Pacific. The sky turned green for 90 minutes. -
#5736: The UK's 14 Overseas Territories, From Pitcairn to ChagosFourteen territories, three Crown Dependencies, and one fight that won't end: why the Chagos Archipelago dispute keeps going. -
#5281: Why Your Cheap Phone Plan Feels BrokenSame phone, same spot, same 5G bars — so why does a cheap carrier crawl? It's not the signal. -
#5248: Why HF Radio Beats Fiber When Governments Pull the PlugHF loss doesn't scale with distance — it scales with ionospheric hops. And that changes everything about embassy comms.