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Company plans to beam free Wi-fi to every person on Earth from space
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| February 5,2014
Posted on 02/17/2014 9:16:06 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Baynative
This could be like radio free Europe on a grand scale to reach dictator controlled nations.
the Iranian Mullahs will have to rig a giant sheet of tinfoil over the entire country.
To: I want the USA back
"Maybe they can get the democrats to declare that internet access is an entitlement, and instead of obamaphones they will be giving the “poor” their very own sattelite modems."
Along with a great big red "vote Rat" button for the coming all electronic voting systems controlled from central government servers.
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posted on
02/17/2014 9:58:00 AM PST
by
Truth29
To: Hojczyk
More and more we are drawing closer to the time when “every eye shall behold Him”
To: Beowulf9
Why would anyone do this for free. I’m thinking it’s not going to be free for long. The upper-right quadrant of your screen might be taken up with some interesting images...
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:00:54 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: Paine in the Neck
>> If the service is given away for free then the product they are selling is you
Very well said.
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:01:41 AM PST
by
Ray76
(How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
To: COBOL2Java
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:03:39 AM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: Buckeye McFrog
I won’t do sat radio
No way do I want my money funding most of that crap. I mean I checked the channel listing. There is a Playboy Channel, a Sex Channel a Howard Stern Channel etc etc
Not my penny.
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:09:22 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: Hojczyk
Company plans to beam free Wi-fi to every person on Earth from space An ambitious project known as Outernet is aiming to launch hundreds of miniature satellites into low Earth orbit by June 2015.
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:10:34 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to behead anyone who says otherwise.)
To: Truth29; I want the USA back
It is already happening.
High speed internet is being offered to families of kids on free lunch programs for $10 a month guaranteed for 2 years, YOU and I are subsidizing that on our internet bills.
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:15:32 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Same here. I called them up last week and re-upped. I went the internet route only because I no longer have a Sirius radio. Now that they have an android app I don’t need a radio. I just plug my phone into the aux jack in my truck and I have satellite radio again. For $15.00 a month it’s a great deal.
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:17:10 AM PST
by
sean327
(God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
To: Hojczyk
Didn’t I see this in a movie once?...............Skynet...................
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:24:35 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
To: COBOL2Java; Hojczyk; Tennessee Nana
To: Hojczyk
More and more we are drawing closer to the time when “every eye shall behold Him”
by Tennessee Nana
The upper-right quadrant of your screen might be taken up with some interesting images...
by COBOL2Java
Interesting juxtaposition...
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:25:55 AM PST
by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Sounds like a scam to me - just going to take the donations and run.
Iridium already tried this 20 years ago, and went bankrupt. Only when the iridium assets were bought at auction for about $0.01 on the dollar has the company been able to operate the satellite constellation and make a small amount of money, mainly from the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now Iridium is trying to raise the BILLIONS necessary to replace their worn-out satellites.
So if some little start-up, with one of the head guys being an university academic, thinks they can launch hundreds of satellites, operate them on a daily basis, repair/replace them when they break - ALL FOR FREE. My scam radar alarm is sounding.
If it sounds too goo to be true, it usually is...
To: Hojczyk
What an opportunity for spying, hacking and information theft.
To: Hojczyk
Will the Outernet also include the Outerwebs?
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:37:36 AM PST
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: Hojczyk
There are a whole lot of “if’s” there.
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:38:11 AM PST
by
zeebee
(There are no coincidences.)
To: Hojczyk
“There’s really nothing that is technically impossible to this”
Aside from bandwidth.
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:40:05 AM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: null and void
Interesting juxtaposition... Indeed.
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:42:49 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: Paine in the Neck
“No, users cannot be tracked; but no, users cannot use the Internet via Outernet. Nor can they choose the content being broadcast. This is a one way communcations mode, similar to talk radio using hypertext markup language instead of loudmouthed white men.”
So it’s just enhanced radio/streaming.
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:43:01 AM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Paine in the Neck
This is a one way communcations mode, similar to talk radio using hypertext markup language instead of loudmouthed white men." A one-way broadcast. So, it won't be replacing the internet and probably won't be very popular where folks have full internet access.
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posted on
02/17/2014 10:44:15 AM PST
by
Will88
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