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Amazon vs Musk space race
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Curt0407
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I see that Amazon launched 27 internet satellites this morning. They are apparently going to try to compete with Musk for the space based internet industry. Competition is a good thing for prices. It seems that before too long there will be so much junk floating in orbit around Earth the we may start looking like Saturn and it's rings. Here is a map of orbiting articles, including junk and satellites.
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Re: Amazon vs Musk space race
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04/29/25 06:35 PM
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I think there’s a launch here every day, seems like it anyway
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Re: Amazon vs Musk space race
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04/29/25 06:43 PM
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Curt0407
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I think there’s a launch here every day, seems like it anyway Are you close enough to make it worthwhile to go watch a launch. I saw one of Musk's starship launches at South Padre and was impressed.
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Re: Amazon vs Musk space race
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04/29/25 07:03 PM
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Anything space related Musk is destroying Bezos on- this is coming from a friend in the industry that doesn’t have a bias.. the new race is in cars- you all see the Slate truck that bezos is backing. This has a lot of potential- basic transportation has gotten ridiculous, I can see this doing very well
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Re: Amazon vs Musk space race
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04/29/25 08:16 PM
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Yeah Musk has no competition in the space game. While Bezos was selling books on amazon, Musk was making the best electric car the world had ever seen. They're not the same.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard
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Re: Amazon vs Musk space race
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04/29/25 09:28 PM
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Spiderman
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Rich guys playing with their toys.
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Re: Amazon vs Musk space race
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04/29/25 09:34 PM
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Yeah Musk has no competition in the space game. While Bezos was selling books on amazon, Musk was making the best electric car the world had ever seen. They're not the same. Musk wasn't making anything. He bought his way into Tesla.
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Re: Amazon vs Musk space race
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04/30/25 12:56 AM
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I think there’s a launch here every day, seems like it anyway Are you close enough to make it worthwhile to go watch a launch. I saw one of Musk's starship launches at South Padre and was impressed. We can see the rockets going up, but they are 110 miles away
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Re: Amazon vs Musk space race
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04/30/25 01:07 AM
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Just in terms of where each company is at in their rocket technology, BO doesn’t stand a chance. At best they will always be 5-10 years behind
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Re: Amazon vs Musk space race
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04/30/25 02:30 AM
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Just came inside.
Saw two strings of about a dozen lights moving north to south. Had to have been satellites.
Pretty cool.
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Re: Amazon vs Musk space race
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04/30/25 03:39 AM
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How does all of that stuff not collide? Seems like a mess.
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