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Robyn Denholm Takes Over the Reigns of Tesla From Elon Musk (reuters.com)
azcoyote shares a report from Reuters: Tesla director Robyn Denholm, a telecoms executive who has worked for Toyota, has been promoted to chairwoman of the electric car company, tasked with regulating billionaire Elon Musk's regime after months of turbulence. An Australian accountant, Denholm is currently finance chief at telecoms firm Telstra and replaces Musk after he was forced to relinquish the role as part of a deal to head off charges of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
While she will resign from Telstra to take the role full-time, some analysts expressed concern that she may not be clearly enough removed from Musk to rein in the billionaire's public outbursts and bring more order to Tesla. Denholm, 55, has been an independent director of Tesla since 2014 and the head of its audit committee. She was paid almost $5 million, mainly in stock options, by the company last year, making her the highest remunerated of its board members. "I personally hope Denholm renames it Reynholm Industries," Slashdot reader azcoyote adds.
While she will resign from Telstra to take the role full-time, some analysts expressed concern that she may not be clearly enough removed from Musk to rein in the billionaire's public outbursts and bring more order to Tesla. Denholm, 55, has been an independent director of Tesla since 2014 and the head of its audit committee. She was paid almost $5 million, mainly in stock options, by the company last year, making her the highest remunerated of its board members. "I personally hope Denholm renames it Reynholm Industries," Slashdot reader azcoyote adds.
That's Reins, guys. That expression originates with what you have to control a horse.
If you're a zombie and you know it, bite your friend!
Reigns - what that German woman with the gold hat does.
Reins - things for steering a horse.
Rains - what it does in Manchester all the sodding time.
There are minerals smarter than some folk.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
He's not at Starlink right now, he's taking a temporary break at High Sobriety, a psychotherapy clinic in SoCal, but yeah, I see him as more likely to return there than Tesla. Tesla's DoA at this point, he's run it into the ground and I don't see him as wanting to be there associated with its ultimate demise.
Plus there are deep pockets than want low latency intercontinental bandwidth that only a LEO network can achieve (fiber is much slower than vacuum.)
Typical glass fiber gets you about 0.7c. The BEST case scenario is going half way around the planet.
About 12450 miles on the ground, or the equivalent of 17785 miles at full c.
About 13706 miles at a 400 mile high orbit, + 400 miles up from Earth and 400 back down = 14506, assuming full c.
14506 / 17785 = Just 18.5% savings for the BEST case scenario, assuming no additional delay getting stuff up and down beyond the 400 mile distance, and assuming the satellite network and transmission up to it and down from it all occur at full c. The average case is only 14% savings. And that's only on transmission time, not processing time. 18 ms savings going halfway around the world.
Do you really want that 18 ms savings? The smarter, cheaper, and easierthing to do is to use terrestrial radio links. Alternatively, for short distances or long straight runs you can use more expensive hollow core fiber (still much cheaper than a swarm of satellites, however).
PepsiCo -> Indra K. Nooyi -> doubled income
ADM -> Patricia Woertz -> record high profitability
Sunoco -> Lynn L. Elsenhans -> increased value 52%
Your numbers are all fucked up. You can't use a theoretical "great circle" fiber because that doesn't exist in the real world. Real fiber is much longer due to geography, politics and other crap. And yes, "assume" full c, because that's what you get. Also, your altitude is wrong; try 210 mi.
This has been credibly simulated, video here. London-Singapore is 90 ms by satellite, 159 ms terrestrial. That delta means high speed traders are obligated to use the system. Elon will have a license to print money.
Learn something, before you spout off again.