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Tesla Owners Silicon Valley·2026-05-14 11:28
Starlink is one of the most useful pieces of tech on the planet right now.Most people don't know it was built to fund Mars and proved its worth in a war.The origin: January 2015, Elon Musk stood in a Seattle warehouse with 60 engineers and described a satellite internet project. He wasn't trying to build an internet company. He was trying to generate the revenue SpaceX needed to get to Mars.The graveyard: two companies had already tried LEO internet. Teledesic, backed by Bill Gates, shut down without launch ...