27-01-2015 00:52 via slog.thestranger.com

Satellite-Based Space Internet Could One Day Make Earth Internet Better, Too

Fer Gregory/Shutterstock"You guys ordered an Uber?" Thank u, space internet.
SPACE INTERNET! You've probably already read that that's Elon Musk's latest adventure, and it's coming to a Redmond office near you. The PayPal entrepreneur came to the city a couple of weeks ago to explain why he'd be hiring "maybe a thousand" locals to build a fleet of internet-facilitating satellites between Earth and Mars.
The proposal has been snowballing interest and capital since Musk's first a
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