Brian Wang SpaceX Starlink turned on satellite service to cell phones in Florida in preparation for Hurricane #Milton hitting soon. 17% of North Carolina and parts of Georgia and Tennessee do not have phone service because of Hurricane Helene. Florida will be hit tonight by Hurricane Milton. People with @TMobile can now text in Florida, and all phones and carriers will receive emergency alerts. SpaceX enabled basic texting (SMS) for those on T-Mobile phones in hurricane affected areas. Text messages have already been sent and received. You can text loved ones, text 911 and continue to receive emergency alerts. If a phone connects to a Starlink satellite, it will have 1 to 2 bars of signal and show “T-Mobile SpaceX” in the network name. Users may have to manually retry text messages if they don’t go through at first, as this is being delivered on a best-effort basis. The service works best outdoors, and occasionally works indoors near a window. T-Mobile and Starlink asked for and received a second Special Temporary Authority (STA) from the FCC to operate the T-Mobile Starlink Direct-to-Cellular service over Hurricane Milton’s projected path. In addition to the thousands (>10k) of Starlink kits we are delivering in response to Hurricane Helene, the @Starlink team and @TMobile activated our Direct to Cell satellites to provide emergency alerts for all phones and carriers of those in affected areas. The @FCC has also… October 10, 2024 at 7:36 am I dislike the partisan comments on a “science blog”. The “evidence” of “climate change” is subjective – actually it is quite partisan. Everybody “knows” everything (especially those on Reddit) instantaneously with the little computer in the palm of their hands. The information comes down through a few sources (google, meta, microsoft); the liberal collectivist’s mind incorporates whatever the degreed “authorities” or “consensus” declare to be “the science”. The 99% of climate scientists, who are funded almost exclusively by government grants, and form the consensus that climate change is a thing… fretting about +2C or whatever (when the Delaware river froze over in 01/2017) are guilty of incredible hubris. Apparently, there is one knob and it is CO2 (reductive, but catchy!). They’re pop-scientists, like those that invented all the additional degrees of freedom in the binary state of being male or female. Step out of your hometown and go to the tropics; I do this every couple years. Observe: the islands are not being swallowed-up (subsiding/sinking is not sea level rise). Observe: the limestone remains of coral reefs before and behind (into higher elevation) you… are they thousands, or millions of years dead? Although sea level is not static on millennial or hundred-thousand year time scales, it has not risen by any measure since the Statue of Liberty (pick your landmark) was erected, despite all the clamor about “warming”. So please… the presidential candidate you dislike cannot [for example] force the state of New Jersey to re-open the coal plants that were literally torn down these past 5 years yielding my $640 July 2024 electric bill. Recall the Governors were the ones that shut the country down during ColdVid – although the former president initially went along with the advice of the chief medical bureaucrat. Most readers on here do not favor coal – only the governments of China, India, Indonesia, etc. “favor coal” building new capacity. That said, the decision isn’t up to the inhabitants of the blogosphere. I just saw a label on a refrigerator at work with a warning that it contained “refrigerants” (go figure)… as if the responsibility for maintaining the ozone layer was somehow pushed from DuPont to the consumer by application of a sticker. It’s quite silly… motivating the public against such things they cannot manufacture or affect themselves…. get everybody spun up all the time. AAA