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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by andrewtbham on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:23PM (#12983805)
no one saw it coming? they anounced this in 2015.

Here is a video where elon explains the system very well in 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHeZHyOnsm4

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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by dshields1 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:37PM (#12983877)
People also speculated that this was the reason Alphabet invested in SpaceX. (Which was around the same time as that announcement)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/technology/google-makes-1-...

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Re:SpaceX plans worldwide satellite Internet with low latenc... by AdamTReineke on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:23PM (#12984034)
2014 - http://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-next-mission-internet...
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