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Offline Dexter

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Elon Musk is planning To Launch 4,000 Satellites That Will Provide Internet From Space to all remote corners of the world
« on: September 18, 2015, 02:55:25 pm »
http://www.futurologyloaded.com/2015/09/elon-musk-is-planning-to-launch-4000.html

Elon Musk is currently seeking government approval to begin testing on a project to broadcast the Internet from 4,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. He claims he wants to beam high-speed Internet to all corners of the world. The plan would transform SpaceX from a company based solely on rockets and spaceflight into an Internet provider to rival the likes of Comcast, Verizon, and other telecom companies in a worldwide market thought to be worth over $ 2.1 trillion annually. Musk's plan is to send his Falcon 9 rocket up into space, and then deploy a fleet of satellites around the planet. He announced his plan earlier in the year, but it has just been released that SpaceX has made a formal request for permission from the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to begin testing next year.
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Re: Elon Musk is planning To Launch 4,000 Satellites That Will Provide Internet From Space to all remote corners of the world
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2015, 03:44:34 pm »
Good idea, but if it goes ahead Facebook and Google are suddenly going to be bush league stuff.
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Re: Elon Musk is planning To Launch 4,000 Satellites That Will Provide Internet From Space to all remote corners of the world
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2015, 04:24:44 pm »
That's one launch per day for the next 11 years. Not to mention there are only a bit over 1000 working satellites in space now and it's already fairly crowded. Seems like a big-ego pipe dream.

The only other question is if he does pull it off, when does Skynet officially become self aware?
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