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Joe Supan: The Rise and Inevitable Downfall of 7,000 Starlink Satellites

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A mammoth piece of arctic sea ice had scraped the ocean floor 34 miles north of Oliktok Point,  cutting a fiber optic  cable buried 13 feet underground, below about 90 feet of water. "The digital divide is fundamentally tied to inequality," says Christopher Ali , professor of telecommunications at Penn State University. "We