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🏠 To The Stars!

Starlink takes flight

Stephen Flanders
October 13, 2023

Gm. Happy Friday the 13th everyone. I was curious why this day is considered so unlucky, so I googled it. Apparently, the Norse god Loki crashed a dinner of 12 uninvited and the ultimate narc Judas joined the last supper as the 13th guest, and Friday was usually the day executions took place. So…Friday the 13th. Learn something new every day.

— Stephen Flanders

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Starlink Takes Flight

If you had to rank Elon’s projects by impact, Starlink would be hanging out around the top. What else can you call something that literally determines the fate of wars?

Well, Starlink is about to get a lot more prevalent, as three big expansions were announced this week.

The first announcement was of a future direct-to-cell service, beginning with text messaging in 2024 and voice and data and IoT service in 2025. Basically, as long as you can see the sky, you will have phone service. If that’s true, then sorry Verizon, but I’m going to have to be a Starlink boy.

The second announcement had to do with airplanes. Everyone knows the wifi on airplanes absolutely sucks. It seems that Elon is a fellow man of culture and wants to angrily tweet on flights, so he’s making Starlink available on most aircraft.

The third announcement deals with ships. Now, I don’t know much about boats, but I’m assuming that wifi isn’t great out at sea. So, Elon is teaming up with Danish shipping company Maersk to deliver Starlink to 330 container ships.

Three big pieces of news in just one week. Starlink…to the stars?

Lofty Goals: Starlink’s goal is to get 42,000 satellites up in space. If that happens, we might be able to permanently kiss goodbye to poor phone service.

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