Talk:3197: Cost Savings

Anyone wanna store some items in my garage? They'll be there... forever! King Pando (talk) 22:41, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Can I store nuclear waste in your garage? 185.36.194.156 04:31, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Anybody know why the random explanation button bias towards the 3000's heavily? 2601:601:8303:1da0:7d1a:4b82:ba3e:3006 (talk) 03:47, 22 January 2026 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

20 manual iterations, beginning 20260122 1440Z. 0-999 25%, 1000-1999 30%, 2000-2999 40%, 3000-3197 5%, 3000-3999 projected 25%. n is too small, but I don't perceive a bias. 98.97.38.200 14:50, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

I've also felt this 66.210.7.66 16:02, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

See "explain xkcd:Community portal/Miscellaneous#Random Explanation Button bias towards newer articles" for some of the prior chat about this. 82.132.246.68 18:47, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

I first thought the joke that we could do anything StarLink does cheaper, simpler, more environmentally friendly and without risking Kessler syndrome by using terrestrial technology (i.e. cables and antennas) if we could just get our heads out of our asses. The shed punchline was a bit of a letdown. --Coconut Galaxy (talk) 07:40, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Saturn the Titan lives, and He has commanded us to create a ring system for Planet Earth so that He can feel more at home here. Recreant. 98.97.38.200 14:59, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

If that would be true StarLink wouldn't be earning money. Terrestrial technology is only effective in areas with relatively high concentration of receiver stations ... where it already IS being build, by cellphone operators. -- Hkmaly (talk) 06:53, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

The other day, I was hearing serious suggestions that StarLink be subscribed to (perhaps just a month at a time, as necessary) to help an amateur organisation to run activities (with entirely optional electronic devices) in low-signal areas where smartphones don't connect well.

...or, IMO, we continue to use paper and pencil like we've done for decades, and then retranscribe everything anyway. But it depends how much capital/running costs someone is willing to absorb just for a 'live' online-connected system that's at least as much smoke-and-mirrors as bells-and-whistles. 82.132.244.2 18:03, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

"NASA ... certainly cannot be conventionally ordered to build a shed on a needy citizen's property." Wait, what? Haven't you been following the trajectory of the 47th Presidency of these Untied States in North America? 98.97.38.200 15:03, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Great, yet another partisan politics interjection in an apolitical discussion. 185.36.194.156 (talk) 04:32, 23 January 2026 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Everything is political. --Coconut Galaxy (talk) 09:08, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Congratulations, bystander. 2605:59C8:160:DB08:CCE1:7150:FFF7:5865 12:53, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Good, Godwin's law checks off again. Bystanding is my ideological and conscientious choice and should never be shamed upon. I would argue it is exactly the shaming of apolitical people in Nazi Germany that led to the ideological runoff. 35.77.106.171 09:00, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm not sure that falls under "conventionally ordered". --Coconut Galaxy (talk) 09:08, 23 January 2026 (UTC)