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To: ShadowAce; dayglored; Swordmaker; MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; ...

Space Tech Ping!.............


2 posted on 10/09/2026 6:46:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Red Badger

Advancing tracking ability?


4 posted on 10/09/2026 6:50:37 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ)
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To: Red Badger

Space X could put Verizon, AT&T, Comcast/Xfinity all out of business.

My daughter has had one of their internet dishes for about a year. They got rid of cable internet and TV. If you can get internet, streaming TV and Satellite phone service all from one provider, I would think that a millions/billions might be interested in that.


6 posted on 10/09/2026 6:54:27 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Red Badger

I would rather carry Elon’s phone than ATT’s. I am sick of paying $65 a month.


23 posted on 10/09/2026 8:24:23 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: Red Badger
The next five years are going to be quite a time to be around. Permanent US human lunar base, ubiquitous self-driving cars for hire, even here in The Boonies, maybe robot farm labor, autonomous robots building the first Mars colony, (and now the buried lead) Starlink on all the cell towers...

By way of analogy, the digital pocket calculator went from costing a lot (during my high school years, the advanced math calculators with all the trig functions ran $125-150) in the mid-1970s, to being given away (the 4 function plus sometimes PI ones) with a tank of gas circa 1981.

The possibly apocryphal story I recall about the transistor was how the first license from Bell Labs was dealt to a Japanese company. 'Just out of curiousity, what are you going to use it for?' 'Portable radios.' 'Yeah, okay.'

30 posted on 10/09/2026 9:54:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills and jihadists anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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