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That's funny because I assumed StarLink was just a way to launch more rockets. Seems like there are enough synergies in the Musk empire to make this a really w
by timmg 6y ago
That's funny because I assumed StarLink was just a way to launch more rockets. Seems like there are enough synergies in the Musk empire to make this a really worthwhile endeavor.
- michaelbuckbee 6y agoThat's my understanding as well - that if you have that kind of lift capacity you can make $x selling it to other or if $10x putting up your own satellites for something like Starlink.
- fastball 6y agoThat's funny because I assumed Starlink was just a POC for "best way to have internet on Mars".
- ayyy 6y agoThat's funny because I just assumed Elon found another old and inefficient monopoly to disrupt.
- wait_a_minute 6y agoeveryone in this thread is right and deserves upvotes
- merlinbeard 6y agoincluding you and me.
- tbabb 6y agoIt's this one. Starlink is an easy way to make oodles of money, which they can redirect toward getting to Mars. They can launch their satellites at cost (or less, if they sell ride sharing). No other telecom can do that. And their customer cost is already fraction of everyone else's. Add to that their mass-production optimized satellites, and no one else can even touch them. There is a very good chance that Starlink will achieve its goal of printing money.
- scsilver 6y agoI like the idea of a networked sat based computer based on solar energy for computations, radiation for cooling, thermally neutral. The real "cloud". Free from earthly constraints and free of gross externalities.
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