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Re:Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to... by manmal on Monday January 22, 2024 @06:42PM (#39097177)
It’s exciting that there finally is demand for lifting things to orbit that outweighs the initial cost to do so, which in turn fuels innovation around the lifting, and ideally starting a virtuous cycle of innovation > cost reduction > increased demand > innovation.

This reminds me of the steam engine, which likely only became viable because its abysmal initial efficiency was outweighed by the need to pump water out of coal mines.

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