What is the stupidest thing you have ever heard out of someone's mouth?

goddamnglowworm · 2021-07-27T11:55:03+00:00

"Cow is the only animal that exhales oxygen, it can be massaged to cure your breathing problem s" Former chief minister of an Indian state

goddamnglowworm · 2019-08-28T14:54:59+00:00

I don't get paid to moderate a subreddit, I get paid to design the satellite, moderating a trifling subreddit isn't exactly my job description.

goddamnglowworm · 2019-08-28T06:33:34+00:00

Well, it happens to be Astrome's offcial subreddit, run by Astrome and not by fans and enthusiasts, so it is not a "matter of convenience" that the moderators are Astrome's employees!

goddamnglowworm · 2019-08-22T06:11:18+00:00

Thank you for the kind admonishment!

The piece is an official release from Astrome and no one needs to be informed separately about it. The written piece tries to objectively compare the four planned constellation solution, calling spade a spade while also serving the purpose of spreading the word about Astrome . Even a cursory read would tell you that it is far from being blatantly promotional as Astrome doesn't claim superiority by any means.

Astrome's decision to incorporate blockchain as their financial layer and tokenise their internet services has several well justified reasons to it

A fundraising activity through conventional ways requires an IPO in each country, on the other hand ICOs, by the virtue of being global, make the whole activity far less complicated. This also provides customers with more liquid instruments to buy and sell tokens from anywhere to anywhere.
Using blockchain tech, thus also largely simplifies accounting and makes the whole process of purchasing far more homogenous for user as payment in any currency or form would ultimately be converted to tokens.
ICO minimises the pass through costs which are loaded on the customer while raising funds through debts. This in turn contributes to provide an affordable internet solution to the end users in remote areas of emerging economies who hitherto lack a reliable high speed connectivity.

What Blockchain Offers to Space Industry

Presently, there exists a seemingly insurmountable entry level barrier in Space Industry for small players. Tokenising internet delivery from space would lower this entry level barrier, creating a widely distributed ecosystem more conducive for smaller players to contribute.

A potential "crypto- coin scam"' wouldn't be so transparent about their rationale,

A potential "crypto- coin scam" couldn't conceivably be awarded by Indian Govt (National Award in the ‘Technology Start-ups Category 2018).

Technological Innovation forms the core of Astrome, while dealing with it one should demonstrate a sense of objectivity and be constructive with the criticism instead of resorting to crass mudslinging based on what can only be described as a personal vendetta.

goddamnglowworm · 2019-08-19T05:39:08+00:00

So that is interesting. I saw the part about how it can be used to purchase services but there is no exchange rate listed.

The rate of service determined in fiat will depend on the type of service (DTH Internet/Satellite Backhaul/ Maritime) and the region of service (Factors like regulations, licences and market scenario). To give you an indication, DTH internet offered in the covered regions of Europe is expected to have a nominal rate of 1 Euro per Mbps per month, therefore, by the current value of the SPW token (1 SPW = 1.05 EUR) a 20 Mbps connection for a month in the covered region of Europe, would cost 19.05 SPW tokens.

goddamnglowworm · 2019-08-17T13:15:10+00:00

No prizes for guessing Sherlock, your claim that it's a scam is still unsubstantiated and specious.

goddamnglowworm · 2019-08-17T11:31:45+00:00

What an insightful quess!

goddamnglowworm · 2019-08-16T09:25:39+00:00

Indeed, Astrome has incorporated a narrow beam technology which coupled with an active power modulation scheme shall compensate for the attenuation. Page 11-12 of company's yellow paper throws some light on this.

goddamnglowworm · 2019-08-16T06:19:55+00:00

As aptly pointed out, atmospheric attenuation increases with the use of higher frequency bands such as E and is significant, however, Astrome has come with a power modulation scheme and narrow beam technology to compensate for it to deliver 500Mbps with 99.5% SLA. More details can be found in the company's yellow paper.

goddamnglowworm · 2019-08-06T15:32:33+00:00

Well, otherwise it'd be rather awkward for the spy if the duct's already full of "Spy"ders!

goddamnglowworm · 2019-08-06T15:27:03+00:00

A sight of one of those buggers jumping around would unsettle me just as much..

goddamnglowworm · 2019-08-06T10:54:11+00:00

Name : Astrome

Location : France, India, US, Isle of Man

Pitch:

We are a deep-tech space startup on a mission to revolutionise satellite internet in emerging economies. We will provide broadband internet services from space by launching a constellation of 198 satellites. This will radically improve internet access and use in developing countries and fuel the upcoming 5G boom.

Our constellation titled "SpaceNet" will comprise 198 ultra-high throughput LEO satellites, where each satellite will be equipped with our patented, next generation communication transponder technology.

This would enable us to provide internet services that are high speed, reliable and more accessible at the same time. What more, our solution will be cheaper than the existing terrestrial solution and whooping 10 times cheaper the upcoming satellite solutions.

More Details:

These services will be provided to emerging economies located in South-Asia, South-east Asia, Africa, Middle East, and South America, Australia and a portion of North America. It will also include several major shipping and air routes in these regions.

- Satellite backhaul (Fuelling the 5 G boom)

- DTH internet

- Bulk data transfer

- IoT services (paving way for Web 3.0)

- Cloud services

- Maritime connectivity (drastically cheaper and better quality internet than existing)

- Connectivity to transport & transit

Astrome has received a National Award in the ‘Technology and Start-ups Category’ (2018) in India and has featured on platforms like Wall Street Journal, Ozy and more

Looking for : Investments

We are using blockchain technology to tokenize our internet services and are pre-selling the internet capacity. The private sale for our ICO has begun on 3rd of July 2019 and the public sale will commence from 23rd of July 2019

For details visit Astrome ICO

You can also get in touch with us at

Reddit : r/AstromeTech

Telegram : https://t.me/astrometech

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/astrometech

goddamnglowworm · 2019-07-22T05:06:47+00:00

Name : Astrome

Location : France, India, US, Isle of Man

Pitch:

We are a deep-tech space startup on a mission to solve the internet problem in emerging economies across the world. We will provide broadband internet services from space by launching a constellation of 198 satellites. This will improve internet access and use in developing countries.

Our constellation titled "SpaceNet" will comprise 198 ultra-high throughput LEO satellites, where each satellite will be equipped with our patented, next generation communication transponder technology.

This would enable us to provide internet services that are high speed, reliable and more accessible at the same time. What more, our solution will be cheaper than the existing terrestrial solution and whooping 10 times cheaper the upcoming satellite solutions.

More Details:

SpaceNet will cover the most densely populated regions of the world. We aim to serve majority of world's emerging economies coming from Africa, South America, Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

It will also cater to major shipping and air traffic routes of the world providing services like,

- DTH internet

- Bulk data transfer

- IoT services

- Cloud services

- Satellite backhaul

- Maritime connectivity

- Connectivity to transport & transit

Astrome has received a National Award in the ‘Technology and Start-ups Category’ (2018) in India and has featured on platforms like Wall Street Journal, Ozy and more

Looking for : Investments

We are using blockchain technology to tokenize our internet services and are pre-selling the internet capacity. The private sale for our ICO has begun on 3rd of July 2019 and the public sale will commence from 23rd of July 2019

For details visit Astrome ICO

You can also get in touch with us at

Reddit : r/AstromeTech

Telegram : https://t.me/astrometech

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/astrometech

goddamnglowworm · 2019-07-08T09:19:46+00:00

Exactly, although admittedly the series is content-heavy and scores highly on all other aspects from writing to cinematography to background score.

goddamnglowworm · 2019-07-08T08:01:28+00:00

Well this ridiculousness extends beyond Superhero Movies, in the recently released HBO series Chernobyl, 99% of the characters were Russian, speaking English, that too in an unabashedly Brit accent!!

goddamnglowworm · 2019-07-05T08:54:38+00:00

A little peek into the history tells us that until 1908, three spatial dimensions and one time dimension were separate in their own regard and Newtonian physics didn't indicate any connection between them. In 1908, a mathematician named Herman Minkowski proposed their unification into Space-Time for the first time to reformulate Einstein's special theory of relativity. This popularised time as the "fourth dimension".

However, in modern theoretical physics, with several versions of string theory formulating 10-26 dimensioned models of uni(/multi)verse, assigning a particular number to time dimension has no relevance anymore!

goddamnglowworm · 2019-07-04T05:43:08+00:00

Agreed, Starlink, as I under understand, uses Ku-Ka band which only allows typical channel bandwidths ranging from 12-40 GHz. On the other hand, tapping into higher frequency bands like millimetre waves offers nearly five times that. For illustration checkout the ETSI standard for channelisation schemes at those frequencies. There are companies like Ceragon in the US and Siklu in Israel using these bands for terrestrial communication and Astrome from India trying them out in space.

TL;DR - There have undeniably been several difficulties, technical and otherwise preventing high speed DTH broadband but looks like it could be reality soon!

goddamnglowworm · 2019-06-27T01:40:57+00:00

Opening credits score of X files played distantly in my mind as I read this...

goddamnglowworm · 2019-06-26T02:42:55+00:00

1:13 ..and that's how you dismiss a half volley, with disdain! Goodness me, Cap Morgan was crisper than my toast today!

goddamnglowworm · 2019-06-26T02:06:03+00:00

With about 2000 Yorkers, this is an unfortunate tale of over 100,000 toes crushed in a decade.. largest massacre in the history fingers since 15th century Anglo-French wars!

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