Elon Musk wants to spend $10 billion building the internet in space

[Victorious Secret]

 

What better way to get people to take Mars colonization seriously than to tell them they could have their Netflix, Facebook and porn on the martian surface? 
 

I applaud his lofty goals and his need to push things further than anyone else before him, it will only benefit us in the long run. Now, if he could just go ahead and make terrestrial satellite internet fast and not entirely useless that would be great. 

 

Elon Musk's plan for satellite internet is even more ambitious than originally thought. At a SpaceX event in Seattle on Friday, the Tesla CEO told Bloomberg Businessweek that his unnamed Space Internet venture could one day stretch all the way to Mars — and it could cost $10 billion to pull off.

 

The news comes at the tail end of a busy week for Musk, with the CEO announcing that a five-mile Hyperloop test track is in development only a day earlier. According to Musk, the satellite internet project would make for fast, cheap global internet that isn't impeded by terrestrial wires. "The speed of light is 40 percent faster in the vacuum of space than it is for fiber," he says, explaining that internet provided by satellites in low orbit can serve those in sparsely populated areas. However, the dream doesn't end there; with his eyes already on a future Martian colony, the SpaceX founder wants connectivity to reach the Red Planet when mankind eventually lands there.

 

https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/16/7569333/elon-musk-wants-to-spend-10-billion-building-the-internet-in-space

[AlwaysFSX]

Toast.

Earlier toast announcing the idea.

 

By the way, your quotes have black on black text.

[minibois]

There's not even good internet everywhere on earth and they want to fly that stuff into the space already?

[X1XNobleX1X]

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