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Yup, this is dumb propaganda being made of a tech demo.
People on hexbear are a bit broken when it comes to pro-chinese propaganda.
I mean it's a very cool technological achievement by China, I would love to work on something like that. A 2 watt laser being used to communicate over such vast distances is mindblowing. But why compare it to Starlink? It's like comparing a Formula 1 car to your grandmother's Honda Civic. Yes, of course the F1 car is more technologically advanced and on the cutting edge. But can you sell millions of F1 cars in the same way Honda sells millions of Civics? Obviously not, which is a general rule for cutting edge technology.
Well that's the thing, if you throw money at research you can do amazing stuff, give me an army of grad students and a few thousand meters of sticky tape and I'll make you some graphene supercaps.
The issue is always in translating results into something practical.
Media releases like this are just dumb propaganda clouding the scientific and technical achievements and preventing their clear-eyed assessment