#linkstar

[lallyloo]

Hi. How do you cope with the fact that Rhett gifted Link a star for his birthday?

Hi anon. It makes me want to sob a little. And idk what pains me more, the fact that he gifted it, or that he later tried to brush it off as just a fake bit for an episode. Like, sir, whether you actually gave it or not is irrelevant. We have eyes.

[remembertherandler]

Hi, I saw your post about the Linkstar and I have a theory. There’s a quote that says “one star in the sky LEADS SAILORS HOME. A butterfly can start a hurricane. A grain of sand starts a landslide. You are important and the universe is empty without you”. What if Rhett got this star for Link so Link can never forget how important he is to Rhett? Rhett’s ancestors were sailors, Rhett bought it for the southern sky. So at the end of the day Link leads him home because Link IS Rhett’s home.

A theory, you say?

I love your theory!!! My phone only showed the first sentence until I posted my reply, but now I can see the whole thing!

What a beautiful notion! ♡♡♡♡

They are each other's worlds, for sure ;)

Thank you for sharing! ♡

[babybeardrhett]

nothing will ever be as romantic + thoughtful as rhett naming a star after link

[glassedhalf]

“We can go look at it in a telescope!” [x]

[remembertherandler]

Linkstar

Have you ever wondered where Linkstar is in the sky? Have you ever wondered if you might find it twinkling away in your favorite constellation? Perhaps you’ve wondered if Rhett has done the same.

Sure, he could look up the coordinates and try to find it, stare up at the sky with chart in hand and point it out, but does it really matter exactly where it is? 

When Rhett named a star after Link, he forever made Link a part of the night sky, and any star that manages to fight its way through the glow of the city lights. Well that is Linkstar to him.

Drabbles, if you guys are still looking :) 

@thegreyhenley, @the-crepes-of-wrath, @killthenaughtyboy

[cherykrush]

[cherykrush]

[kramlabs]

Why Iridium failed:

“And it was certainly entrepreneurship that led Motorola to launch its Iridium project. Motorola spent $5 billion to put 66 low earth satellites in orbit so that anyone could phone anytime from anywhere with a Motorola phone. Unfortunately, the satellites spend 70 percent of their time over our planet's oceans and are not usable for much of their life (unless perhaps you're adrift in the middle of the Atlantic), the phones, while they may work from the top of Mount Everest, don't work indoors, in the shadows of buildings or under trees (early demos of the system enjoined purchasers to "make sure the phone is pointed at the satellite"), the service's monthly cost was high, the phones are huge and every major metropolitan area already has cheap and reliable cellular systems. In other words, there was no market for Iridium. After the last satellite was launched the system quickly went bankrupt. Despondent Motorola stockholders, watching the value of their shares plummet as Iridium crashed and burned, suggested sending up the project's marketing and engineering team in rockets without spacesuits to join their orbiting financial debacle, but current law forbids this. You would think an excellent company with entrepreneurial instincts would notice that 70% of the earth's surface is water.”

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-Motorola-Iridium-project-fail

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

article from 1998:

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Satellite-Phones-Work-From-Jungles-to-Concrete-3240913.php