Seems you are right: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1522550576734691328

Not agreeing or disagreeing but I think it's important to note that it just raised $675 million valued at $5.675 billion: https://www.boringcompany.com/seriescround

It could absolutely be another SpaceX.

But it could also be another Theranos.

I’ll leave the guessing to other people.

For anyone curious, there's an image of the route in this article: https://www.aroged.com/2021/12/24/far-north-digital-and-cini...

That article has the same ad like a dozen times in a row, and also what is clearly JavaScript leaking out around them. Cool visual but what a sloppy site.

I suspect this site is taking a news feed from VK and blending it with content from other sites and rewording things to produce search engine spam. This particular article it looks like ate some JavaScript for breakfast and threw it up all over.

Interesting. I naively expected it to take the shortest/great circle route from Europe straight across northern Russia to Japan, but no, it actually loops the other way around the pole via Iceland and Canada.

Looks like there would be fewer opportunities to stop and connect to existing networks if you went that way.

Original route plan was exactly that, but there are reason why that route wasn't taken. This plan has been open for a decade aka ROTACS. But Russia started to build their own cable Polar Express - https://www.arctictoday.com/work-on-a-russian-trans-arctic-f...

seems like someone logged some JS right into the DOM there

Does scrolling up break that site for anyone else?

It breaks for me, too.

We do this in The Netherlands: https://coronadashboard.government.nl/landelijk/rioolwater

Wow that is SICK! I think if I had to read viral particles in wastewater for many different diseases at a sewage treatment plant I would go crazy and move to the countryside!

There is no "countryside" in the Netherlands

You can move water-sides though, buy a houseboat and camp out on the lakes..

Of course Inmarsat will encourage airlines to implement this. I believe it is in their interest as it makes them extra money and wouldn't cost them that much more. The senior vice president for external affairs claims it costs about a dollar an hour (www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26723980). I'm no expert and pretty clueless but to me this doesn't sound like a trivial cost on a fleet of about 100 aircraft.

Interesting, I hadn't heard about this. Here is a link for the lazy: https://django.2scoops.org/