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Elon Musk’s Unmatched Power in the Stars (they are concerned)
Nytimes yahoo ^

Posted on 07/31/2023 9:57:19 AM PDT by janetjanet998

On March 17, Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the leader of Ukraine’s armed forces, dialed into a call to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Over the secure line, the two military leaders conferred on air defense systems, real-time battlefield assessments and shared intelligence on Russia’s military losses. They also talked about Elon Musk.

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1 posted on 07/31/2023 9:57:19 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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This has to do with the future control of information
How governments censor if one can eventually tap into Starlink from a phone?
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Zaluzhnyi also asked if the United States had an assessment of Musk, who has sprawling business interests and murky politics — to which U.S. officials gave no answer.

Musk, who leads SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter, has become the most dominant player in space as he has steadily amassed power over the strategically significant field of satellite internet. Yet faced with little regulation and oversight, his erratic and personality-driven style has increasingly worried militaries and political leaders around the world


2 posted on 07/31/2023 9:59:19 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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Nails it

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@amuse

@amuse
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CONTROL: One man controls more than half the satellites in Earth orbit. The Democrats are worried that
@elonmusk
might be able to use his constellation of communication satellites to create a global free speech platform outside of their control.
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1686007633520549888


3 posted on 07/31/2023 10:02:00 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

Some in the GOP like restricting information.
They never liked Rush telling voters when they were being stabbed by their own party.
The radical lurch to the left began when Rush passed away.


4 posted on 07/31/2023 10:02:29 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: janetjanet998

WITHOUT STARLINK-—Ukraine would already be toast.


5 posted on 07/31/2023 10:03:39 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: janetjanet998
his erratic and personality-driven style

Leftist-speak for "he's not a fellow leftist".


6 posted on 07/31/2023 10:13:18 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: janetjanet998

Whatta laff.

Ms. Milley, useless liberal arts major is worried because a better man did the impossible and blew a gaping hole in the rocket biz. Just like all Commutards, he can’t stand Atlas achieving and overshadowing him. Gotta pull him down.


7 posted on 07/31/2023 10:14:15 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: janetjanet998

In other words they haven’t been able to intimidate him into sending the piles of moola to them.


8 posted on 07/31/2023 10:21:27 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: janetjanet998

I really like my starlink.


9 posted on 07/31/2023 10:23:13 AM PDT by e_castillo
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Kind of amazing how one guy who didn’t start out with any great wealth beat everybody else including the governments of major powers. In fact, he beat them so badly they’re worried they’ll never be able to catch up.


10 posted on 07/31/2023 10:24:42 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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I feel this explains why Bezos’ Blue Origin has billions in government contracts and has yet to begin viable commercial space launches. They’re trying to subvert SpaceX, IMO.


11 posted on 07/31/2023 10:39:28 AM PDT by MTsumi
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To: FLT-bird

I really hope he has red pilled. He is in a position to exert a lot of influence. Damn hard to trust anyone who was foolish enough to vote for Biden and that was just 3 years ago


12 posted on 07/31/2023 10:42:33 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: FLT-bird

Elon is the source of satellite launches because of elite decay in the USA.

NASA is federal funded, has tens of billions per year, and still can’t launch satellites, which they were able to do in the 1950’s.


13 posted on 07/31/2023 10:42:49 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: janetjanet998; All
"Democrats are worried that
@elonmusk
might be able to use his constellation of communication satellites to create a global free speech platform outside of their control."

This 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 👀

14 posted on 07/31/2023 10:44:50 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION Never be slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: e_castillo

What kind of bandwidth (up and down) do you get?


15 posted on 07/31/2023 10:46:01 AM PDT by curious7
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To: janetjanet998

They could have done everything he did, but he was smarter, faster, and better then they were. That’s what really pisses them off - they are not in control.


16 posted on 07/31/2023 10:50:28 AM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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Just now... 104mbs down 31 up. 31ms latency. On my phone using wifi.


17 posted on 07/31/2023 10:52:21 AM PDT by e_castillo
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To: Reverend Wright

Maybe NASA can get a cut from Ukraine?
Or a loan...


18 posted on 07/31/2023 11:13:59 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: ridesthemiles

“Ukraine would already be toast.”

Correct.

Their tactical and strategic comms, and drone control all depend on starlink.


19 posted on 07/31/2023 11:18:23 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: curious7

May want to look into T-Mobile internet. I was surprised at the price of Starlink. Now $150 a month according to the video below plus $650 cost of equipment.

Cheaper and BETTER than Starlink | RV Internet solutions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcofyNWDyao


20 posted on 07/31/2023 11:18:57 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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