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UK government responds to post-Brexit concerns and of course it's all the fault of those pesky EU negotiators

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Re: .....but in the "sunny uplands" this sort of c**k up never happens, does it?

@codejunky

Member states like the UK and the rest had the right to order for themselves too. I think you know that very well by now.

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Re: .....but in the "sunny uplands" this sort of c**k up never happens, does it?

Music for codejunky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BydJFxtDnEY

And deaths per 100K is not much to boast about.

Britain 232.8

France 195.4

Germany 141.4

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/mapping-spread-new-coronavirus/?itid=hp_pandemic

It's more than 20 years since Steps topped the charts. It could be less than that for STEP's first fusion energy

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Re: Ludicrous

@Gordon 10

Yes good luck with that, but you also know it will not happen nor would you attract all the people needed.

Time to wake up.

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Re: We need to replace Vlad's Gas

It's nothing more wrong in buying Russian gas than Norwegian gas it's not about replacing Vlad's gas but Vlad.

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Re: Mixed feelings

"no matter what colour government ".

I know you don't think about it but you actually reveal the lunacy of a two party system.

No country should ever be run by a government of just one party, those systems are for countries like North Korea and China and damn it still for most English speaking countries and does it show.

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Re: Hm...

Are you talking about the Harwell Synchrocyclotron.

"The Harwell Synchrocyclotron was a particle accelerator based at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment campus near Harwell, Oxfordshire. Construction of the accelerator began in 1946[1] and it was completed in 1949".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwell_Synchrocyclotron

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Re: Ludicrous

@Gordon 10

You don't seem to understand that STEPS is a DEMO of ITER and closely related, while ITER is much too big for just one European country.

"ITER is funded and run by seven member parties: China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States. The United Kingdom participates through EU's Fusion for Energy (F4E), Switzerland participates through Euratom and F4E, and the project has cooperation agreements with Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan and Thailand.".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER

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Quite a lot going on

Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) is a spherical tokamak fusion plant concept proposed by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and funded by UK government.[1][2][3] The project is a proposed DEMO-class successor device to the ITER tokamak proof-of-concept of a fusion plant, the most advanced tokamak fusion reactor to date, which is scheduled to achieve a 'burning plasma' in 2035. STEP aims to produce net electricity from fusion on a timescale of 2040. The UK government is presently searching for a suitable site.

DEMO refers to a proposed class of nuclear fusion experimental reactors that are intended to demonstrate the net production of electric power from nuclear fusion. Most of the ITER partners have plans for their own DEMO-class reactors. With the possible exception of the EU and Japan, there are no plans for international collaboration as there was with ITER.[1] [2]

Plans for DEMO-class reactors are intended to build upon the ITER experimental nuclear fusion reactor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fusion_experiments#Tokamak

Watchdog clears 90 per cent of US commercial aircraft to land in low visibility at nation's 5G C-band airports

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"Is this the same FAA which "approve" the Boeing MAX before the two fatal crashes? (I'm just askin'.)"

I think the problem was that the FAA naively let Boeing self approve the MAX and more.

And indeed it's the higher max power levels used in the USA that makes this difference too.

Juan Browne at Blancolirio is mostly very reliable in stuff like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHIFs4EkA0k

Also note the fact that it matters what came first.

European silicon output shrinking, metal smelters closing as electricity prices quadruple, trade body warns

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Re: re: Windmills are rubbish.

"Romney's not really Republican".

A Republican yes, just not a Trumpist.

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Re: re: Windmills are rubbish.

@M.V. Lipvig

"and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney,"

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Re: Follow the money

PS. Adam Trickett who do you think normally pays if it's not the tax payer.

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Re: "sad and silly rant"

@Jellied Eel

The reactor Olkiluoto 3 achieved criticality on 21 December 2021.

There are one or two similar in China too.

Right now about 50 reactors are being built or ordered in the world and about 20 of them in China.

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Re: "sad and silly rant"

@AC

Try the Wikipedia for your answers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Unit_3

My question to you is how much richer Finland or France and involved companies would be today if that decision to build Olkiluoto 3 had not been made in 2005 compared to the reality of today.

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Re: "Finland will have it's fifth [nuclear power plant] up and running this year"

@AC

What a sad and silly rant, and it has nothing to do with honesty at all.

Errors are made problems take time to solve.

It was a "turn key" agreement (wisely from the buyers point) creating some additional meetings.

But it's there with a 60 years of expected use.

So why not look at the bright side, and besides the one for Britain will be similar and perhaps easier to deliver if that decision will ever be made.

For more about it.

Finland Is Building World’s First Third-Generation Pressurized Water Reactor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFii8busnWA

Finland Might Have Solved Nuclear Power’s Biggest Problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYpiK3W-g_0

Inside The Tunnels That Will Store Nuclear Waste For 100,000 Years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoy_WJ3mE50

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Some countries gave op on nuclear much too early if not all, Finland will have it's fifth up and running this year but Germany is much too dependent on gas.

Then again if Russia doesn't provide there is no money for them. Somehow I think the French have had more sense than the rest.

James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its new home – an orbit almost a million miles from Earth

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@phuzz

It's all very family.

"Immediately following the successful first test launch of an Ariane 1 on 24 December 1979, the French space agency Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) and the ESA created a new company, Arianespace, for the purpose of promoting, marketing, and managing Ariane operations.[13][2] According to Arianespace, at the time of its establishment, it was the world's first launch services company."

Arianespace "is the marketing and sales organization for the European space industry and various component suppliers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianespace

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Re: thank you

One of the few one can read without vomiting all over the place.

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Partnership

Partnership

NASA, ESA and CSA have collaborated on the telescope since 1996. ESA's participation in construction and launch was approved by its members in 2003 and an agreement was signed between ESA and NASA in 2007. In exchange for full partnership, representation and access to the observatory for its astronomers, ESA is providing the NIRSpec instrument, the Optical Bench Assembly of the MIRI instrument, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher, and manpower to support operations.[116][167] The CSA will provide the Fine Guidance Sensor and the Near-Infrared Imager Slitless Spectrograph plus manpower to support operations.[168]

Several thousand scientists, engineers, and technicians spanning 15 countries have contributed to the build, test and integration of the JWST.[169] A total of 258 companies, government agencies, and academic institutions are participating in the pre-launch project; 142 from the United States, 104 from 12 European countries, and 12 from Canada.[169] Other countries as NASA partners, such as Australia, have or will be involved in post-launch operation.

Another US president, time for another big Intel factory promise by another CEO

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Re: Disappointed?

I cannot remember anybody talking about a EU domination. Not that I had anything against it but domination doesn't always stay fixed and that is perhaps as well.

UKCloud acquired: Public sector specialist finally bags investment from current chair and private equity after reporting steep losses

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Still better to give people a possibility to be experts within the country.

Nobody is born an expert nobody will become one without having a company to work in.

Joint European Torus celebrates 100,000 pulses: Neither Brexit nor middle age has stopped '80s era experiment

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Re: 40 years in the making

"we're only 10 years from commercial fusion power then.".

That is high speed compared to getting rid of the "first past the vote".

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Isn't Britain in Europe then?.

Almost there: James Webb Space Telescope frees its mirrors and prepares for insertion

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If you have to convert Kg to Stones and pounds then it's you who owns the problem.

Tesla driver charged with vehicular manslaughter after deadly Autopilot crash

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"Nothing to do with Tesla or autopilot.".

No that's too easy, it's all about Tesla and how they are marketing the autopilot. In fact the first error is in the "auto".

I could well understand if some chap got this silly idea that the car will also detect trafic lights.

And if you want to know the morale behind it all, look for the small print pointing out that the auto will not detect traffic lights fully automatically.

I would fine Tesla and not that poor sod. Stupidity is not a sin and not prohibited in law. But just this once.

US-China chip cold war? It's only helping the Middle Kingdom, silicon makers warn

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Re: Sanctions

I am not sure Jack Ma gave me a honest answear and I am not also all that convinced that perhaps Facebook & Co did not get too much power a bit too easily.

It is complicated and there is the part built on ideology and our view on what is right, but there is also the damned reality of the reality.

This by Richard Wolff is much about the reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CydroIVRT_I

PS. I would rather share a bier with Jack Ma than with Zuck, as I think he is more of a human, but who knows.

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Re: Sanctions

@Youngone

Yes I agree.

Here In Finland the Finnish ardent communists could fairly freely visit the Soviet Union after the war and I suppose it wasn't all that overwhelming as that party quickly shrank in Finland.

Russians were also able to visit and do business in Finland to some extent.

There was a time when we spoke of "koti ryssä" which means "your personal home Russian".

Eikka a guy whose daughter I happened to marry had one, lets call him Igor.

Igor was a nice intelligent chap and used to visit now and then and had a list of stuff he needed for Eikka.

Once it was a new suit and so he went and bought one.

And then he proudly presented it to Eikka who much surprised pointed out it was much too big for him.

Igor then told Eikka it would become just perfect after one or two washes.

Eikka told him times have changed and took him straight to a tailor to fix it.

There are those who claim the USSR fell because of "star wars" but it did really fall from within when enough people understood it had to change.

I think we have a problem, what if I started to think Boris & twats represent all there is about Britain and its people.

What if I start to assume all there is regarding Americans are Trupists or all there is in Russia is Putin.

Still that is how the game is played although the real problem is the political systems that do not work and in a way it will constantly be once again about the effort for a dictatorship with a king or similar on top.

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Re: Best way of determining where this is coming from is to look at the language

@naive

You are being down voted for good reasons for the "geo-ip filters".

suppose you elaborated a bit about "telling a version of the history". What kind of history are you talking about.

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Re: Sanctions

@StrangerHereMyself

I can understand there are concerns among us in the west regarding China but to be honest I am, and you should be, a lot more concerned about what has happened and is happening in the USA now and for quite some time.

Quoting the CIA World Factbook on China we find this:

"Measured on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis that adjusts for price differences, China in 2017 stood as the largest economy in the world, surpassing the US in 2014 for the first time in modern history. China became the world's largest exporter in 2010, and the largest trading nation in 2013. Still, China's per capita income is below the world average.".

And I think Dr. Michio Kaku understood what was happening already in 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y9j_CGgM

And I think there are some things to ponder about regarding the education indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7lO0TlwUZw

A rising stupid index is not a good strategy.

European Space Agency whittles wannabe astronauts down from 23,000 to 1,391

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Re: "opening up applications to would-be astronauts with a physical disability"

The modern parachute was invented in the late 18th century by Louis-Sébastien Lenormand in France, who made the first recorded public jump in 1783. Lenormand also sketched his device beforehand.

Two years later, in 1785, Lenormand coined the word "parachute" by hybridizing an Italian prefix para, an imperative form of parare = to avert, defend, resist, guard, shield or shroud, from paro = to parry, and chute, the French word for fall, to describe the aeronautical device's real function.

The James Webb Space Telescope has only gone and deployed its primary mirror

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Re: It's all going too well!

It's all going well too.

Robotic arm on China's space station does a demo, swings out 20 degrees and back while holding cargo ship

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Who invented the "lifting"

Looking at the link "state-sponsored media China Global Television Network " it reads "China's space station: Robotic arm successfully transfers cargo ship in test"

Who invented the "lifting".

RISC-V CTO: We won't dictate chip design like Arm and x86

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@msobkow

I am not interested in spending any more time on this but perhaps there is something here for somebody else interested in that topic.

On the Top500 list of supercomputers you find as number 4

Sunway MPP, Sunway SW26010 260C 1.45GHz, Sunway

And about the CPU Sunway SW26010 you find this on the Wikipedia:

"The SW26010 is a 260-core manycore processor designed by the National High Performance Integrated Circuit Design Center in Shanghai. It implements the Sunway architecture, a 64-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architecture designed in China".

And it runs Linux of course, like they all do.

https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2021/11/highs/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunway_SW26010

France loves open source so much, even its cinema borks have Linux behind the scenes

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Re: Francais?

Stop is stop in many languages like in French. Very Germanic and often as stopp.

Europe completes first phase of silicon independence project

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Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

"Scotland and wales are run by coalitions.".

True for Scotland but not for Wales, as far as I understand.

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Re: "efforts to create made-in-Europe chips"

@aki009

Yes, but I wonder why you state the obvious, yes it's a state run project. I prefer to call it "state run" as governments come and go quite often while the projects proceed.

Take ITAR and so many more.

The goal and the only reason those project are started (by intelligent) states is that companies, the private sector, haven't got the means to do it alone, the end goal is that the industry will eventually pic it up and prosper from it in those countries that invested in the project.

(Universities are also often for very good reasons part of such projects).

How difficult is that to understand.

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Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

@Phil O'Sophical

I suppose you know that text is written by a Brit.

I would claim the Swedish version is more to the point. Why would the French not use a French system (and why would the Americans not use a American system) when there is business involved.

The Swedish through GTransl.

"Some have argued that the main reason for the development of SECAM in France was to protect the domestic television industry. In any case, incompatibility had already begun with the unusual decision to adopt positive video modulation for French broadcasts. The old British System A was the second system to use positive video modulation. Just to mention, the SECAM development was a precursor to the PAL development. NTSC was evaluated as inappropriate in Europe due to its nuance problems, which required additional adjustment control, which SECAM and PAL solved without an adjustment control. PAL was developed by Telefunken, a German company, and in the post-war de Gaulle era, it had been and has become a major political resistance to abandon a French-developed system to adopt a German-developed system instead. Unlike some other manufacturers, the company that developed SECAM sold Thomson TVs worldwide under different brands. Thomsom bought the company that developed PAL, Telefunken and today also owns the RCA brand - RCA, the developer of NTSC. Thomson was also involved in the development of the ATSC standard used for American high definition television."

The French version has this:

"The political choice of part of the television standards in France rests with François Mitterrand (Secretary of State) as well as Charles de Gaulle. For reasons, on the one hand, strictly to protect French borders against the real "influence" and competition that already existed in radio (Anglo-Saxon and pro-American) during the Cold War, but also for the influence of technological mastery French. The government has also advocated the adoption by other countries of this innovative technology since it is theoretically better than its two competitors (German PAL and especially American NTSC)".

As for the British are all similar and like this and all the French are similar and like that, that is a lot of rubbish with deep roots not only in Britain.

But you are damned good at it, learn about the Scots by looking at Dad's Army, for proper information.

But all the best for the New Year to us all.

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Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

"De Gaulle-era France"

Phil O'Sophical, I am sure you will smile at this funny guy with his mad claims, right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4orQgi1avP4

I get a rather similar feeling when you associate de Gaulle with SECAM

Companies invent and compete regardless of who ever President.

Why don't you read about SECAM and PAL and the history behind it, and the time when invented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECAM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL

I have listened to Brexit Britain now from the very beginning and still you cannot avoid the "European nationalism isn't particularly surprising in Macron-era France".

Just more silliness, what is it with you, still sour about having been kicked out of the continent or is it just that you know they are as good as you are, and that is so annoying.

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Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

"That reminds me of SECAM."

Not sure about what you want to say there.

"SECAM was later adopted by former French and Belgian colonies, Greece, Cyprus, the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries (except for Romania), and some Middle Eastern countries. However, with the fall of communism, and following a period when multi-standard TV sets became a commodity, many Eastern European countries decided to switch to the West German-developed PAL system.

Other countries, notably the United Kingdom and Italy, briefly experimented with SECAM before opting for PAL. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECAM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL#/media/File:PAL-NTSC-SECAM.svg

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Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

Indeed sometimes it takes time for political parties to agree on what to do and how to do it.

The advantage is of course that during the much needed time for them to actually agree the country is run by those who actually know what to do and howto keep the country running, the so called unelected bureaucrats.

Also when a coalition government goes shit and cannot cooperate they simply resign and let the parties try again.

Have you ever heard of a one party government asking the opposition to take over.

The two party system is a disaster, just look at the Americans where half of the population feel that the other half are their worst enemies. The British are a bit better due to a better education I think.

Nothing is perfect but lets try to have a happy Christmas all the same.

(and the James Webb is soon on it's way, happily too, I hope)

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Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

"So, basically, UK has no saying on the project, right?".

Well, Britain wasn't kicked out of the EU by the EU.

I Britain wants to take part then sign up to take part of the financing and the rules.

Most people in the EU would support such an decision without doubt, perhaps.

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"A processor designed by committee?"

Just a very stupid thing to say.

It's like claiming Airbus is rubbish because it's partly owned by several countries and has production in several countries too.

Resources and costs have to be shared in the EU in order to compete with the rest of the world.

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Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

"cheaper chips"

Like Mogg's cheap shoes for poor children.

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Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

It's a lot deeper than that, no country should be run by a goverment of just one party, those systems are for countries like North Korea and China. Sadly also for most English speaking countries too, and it certainly shows.

In coalition governments there is better internal control, less sleaze, and more internal competition.

What is opposition in a two party system like the British more than a guy shouting across the dispatch box waiting for the next election.

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Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

About the EuroHPC.

"Public members

As of January 2020, public members of the Joint Undertaking include, the European Union (represented by the European Commission), 26 of the 27 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden), and five non-EU associated states of the EU's Horizon 2020 programme (North Macedonia, Norway, Montenegro, Switzerland, and Turkey).

Other EU Member States or countries associated to Horizon 2020 are able to become members, provided that they accept the Statutes and financially contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the Joint Undertaking.

Observer states

Malta has been given "observer" status for the EuroHPC JU, allowing it to participate in deliberations of the Governing Board, but not receive a vote.[28][29] The United Kingdom lost its observer status following its departure from the EU on 31 January 2020.

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Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

The first grant agreement is implemented under the European Commission program Horizon 2020 (FPA: 800928) in the December 2018 to November 2021 time span. The second agreement will be implemented afterwards under the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking which issued a call answered to in January 2021 by the same consortium (H2020-JTI-EuroHPC-2020-02 FPA in EPI (phase II)).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Processor_Initiative

Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang

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Re: Bully Bastards

I would suggest it would be even more important to also have a sober look at what is going on at home.

To quote:

"We really have to start telling these unprincipled yobs - and their Trump chums - to eff right off. At the moment, it's 1930s appeasement all over again. Personally, I'd love to offend the Republicans, or more specifically, the GOP.".

New submarine cable to link Japan, Europe, through famed Northwest Passage

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Re: Who are the customers?

Yes, but the distance is also longer using satellites.