There’s a definite balance here- how to provide modern services to hard-to-reach places and how to make sure we can do good science. I’m not sure what the answer is when it comes to internet and rural areas, but internet is pretty much required in the modern world, at least in the West, and if you don’t have it at home, that can make your life much more difficult.

So what is someone living out in the woods to do without a service like Starlink? And what is someone in the Third World who wants to better their life to do in the same situation? I don’t have the answer, I wish I did.