The folks at Snopes, whose whore mongering (and allegedly rapey) co-founder was fired for mass plagiarism, have once again illustrated why the world of ‘fact checkers’ are nothing more than otherwise-unemployable partisan hacks.
On Tuesday, Snopes took a shot at Elon Musk in a hit-piece titled “Was the Missing Titanic Submersible Using Satellites from Elon Musk’s Company?“
The article is of course meant to imply that the OceanGate Titanic exploration submersible, which lost contact with its surface support vessel on Sunday, went missing due to a Starlink failure.
After Snopes’ account tweeted the article, a scorching Twitter community note tore the article to shreds – noting that while OceanGate has used StarLink services, they’re used for their surface vessels, not their submersibles. Idiots. The note also clarifies that radio frequencies such as StarLink’s do not work underwater.
“Starlink operates in the 10.7 to 12.7 GHz band. [radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu/wp-content/upl…] Penetration depth of 2.45GHz in water is <8cm and falls off with increasing frequency. [cober.com/wp-content/upl…] Therefore, Starlink cannot be used to communicate with an underwater submarine,” the note states.
Hellbound and Down 