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[heartgirl99]

it's going to be a wet, autumn day

Today

Periods of rain ending this morning then cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Wind east 20 km/h becoming southwest 30 gusting to 50 this morning. High 15. UV index 2 or low.

[the H team]

Happy Tuesday Q sters,

Leafs ran into penalty issues & lost the game, 4-3 to the Blue Jackets on a penalty shot in OT. Leafs play the Bruins tonight.

The Raptors start their season tonight.

[the H team]

Game 1 of the World Series goes tonight, between the Astros & the Nationals. This is where you need a TV that will give you 3 different sporting events at the same time on the same screen. You can watch the baseball, basketball & hockey games all at once.

[dededi]

Good morning everyone.

[GoodBoy]

Well a soggy day today for me. Was going to put burlap around the rhodo but it will have to wait! Hope all here have a wonderful (and dry if possible) day!

[The Jester]

[The Jester]

It appears that St. George was in our park the other day and slew yet another dragon

[rock lobster]

Okay, okay so I finally figured out the shortest way from Orlando airport to West Palm.
After you exit the rental car counter you turn left at Denny's , right at McDonald's , cross three runways
till you get to Auto Zone, right at Auto Zone past Walgreen's onto the turnpike,
then second star to the right, and straight on till morning.
Simple.
Not entirely legal.
Just simple.


B-52 Stratofortress located at the North End Orlando Airport.😊

[GoodBoy]

And you thought you were having a bad day!

[rock lobster]

Elon Musk sends tweet via SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband

Musk tests service at home as SpaceX aims to offer broadband in US by mid-2020.

/ Starlink logo imposed on stylized image of the Earth.

SpaceX's Starlink division is on track to offer satellite-broadband service in the United States in mid-2020, a company official said today.
Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted two tweets that show he's testing the broadband service.
"Sending this tweet through space via Starlink satellite,"
Musk wrote. Two minutes later, Musk sent a followup tweet that said, "Whoa, it worked!!"

Sending this tweet through space via Starlink satellite

Musk "has a Starlink terminal at his house," SpaceNews wrote today in an article that has a deployment update from SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell.

SpaceNews reported:

SpaceX is confident it can start offering broadband service in the United States via its Starlink constellation in mid-2020, the company's president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell said Oct. 22.
Getting there will require the company to launch six to eight batches of satellites, Shotwell told reporters during a media roundtable. SpaceX also has to finish the design and engineering of the user terminals, which is not a minor challenge, Shotwell acknowledged.

"Mid-2020" is slightly more specific than the timing provided in previous SpaceX statements, but we already knew Starlink service was projected to arrive sometime in 2020. SpaceX previously said it plans to deploy satellite broadband in the northern United States and Canada as soon as next year.
SpaceX launched 60 satellites in May this year to test the system before preparing for a wider deployment.
The company has FCC permission to deploy up to 11,943 satellites and is seeking permission to launch as many as 30,000 more.

SpaceX says 12,000 satellites isn’t enough, so it might launch another 30,000


But SpaceX can start offering service well before all the satellites are launched. While the northern United States and Canada seem to be first in line to get service, SpaceX recently asked the FCC to approve an orbital-spacing change that would let the company also cover the southern United States by the end of next year.

Today, "Shotwell said SpaceX will need to complete six to eight Starlink launches—including the one that already took place in May—to ensure continuous service in upper and lower latitude bands," SpaceNews reported.
"We need 24 launches to get global coverage," Shotwell said. "Every launch after that gives you more capacity." SpaceX previously said it could make 24 Starlink launches in 2020.

Price is still to be determined

While SpaceX has said it intends to provide gigabit speeds and latency as low as 25ms, a big unanswered question is how much it will cost. SpaceX is apparently still trying to figure that out.

"Shotwell said millions of people in the US pay $80 per month to get 'crappy service,'" SpaceNews reported.

"She didn't say whether Starlink will cost more or less than $80 per month but suggested that would be a segment of the public the company would target as well as rural areas that currently have no connectivity."

There are some other interesting tidbits in the SpaceNews article. SpaceX wants to offer Starlink both to home Internet users and the US government, and the company is already testing with the US Air Force Research Laboratory. "So far, SpaceX has demonstrated data throughout of 610Mbps per second in flight to the cockpit of a US military C-12 twin-engine turboprop aircraft," the SpaceNews article said.

Selling directly to regular consumers will be a new challenge for the company, requiring new sales, tech support, and product engineering staff. Shotwell acknowledged that "this is very different business for SpaceX."
SpaceX is still ironing out the technology for user terminals, which will be installed at homes that connect to Starlink. "Knowing Elon, he wants everything to be beautiful. So the user terminal will be beautiful," Shotwell said.
SpaceX's satellites use low Earth orbits that should allow them to provide much better service than traditional satellite-broadband systems. But SpaceX isn't the only company planning to use the technology; the company faces competition from OneWeb, Space Norway, Telesat, and Amazon.

[heartgirl99]

good morning, qts

it should be a little nicer today. hopefully we will see more sunshine

Today

A mix of sun and cloud. Wind southwest 20 km/h gusting to 40. High 12. UV index 3 or moderate.

[the H team]

Happy Hump Day Q sters,

It was a full night in the sports world. Leafs lost to the Bruins 4-2, Nationals take game 1 over the Astros, 5-4, game 2 tonight @ 8pm & the Raptors win their home game against the Pelicans, 130-122 in OT. They unveiled the Championship banner & received their jewel encrusted rings. Talk about bling!

[the H team]

Did you know?

In honor of Women's History Month in Canada, we wanted to tell you about Marion Alice (Powell) Orr. Born in 1918 Marion was the first woman in Canada to run a flying school and only the second woman to qualify as an air traffic control assistant. She also served with the Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II and was awarded the Order of Canada in 1986.

[kenrod]

Good morning fellow Canucks!

I was watching both the Leaf and Raptors games last night. I didn't watch the baseball game though. Too bad the Leafs lost, but it was nice to see the Raptors win. The Leafs didn't seem to play a good game, but in contrast, the Raptors game was exciting. Yes I am a Raptors bandwagoner and only really started watching them last season.

Well folks, have a great peak of the week.

[dededi]

Happy Hump Day evening everyone!!
Awesome news, Christmas movie back to back start on W channel November 1st.