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- Jesus & Confucius: Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself.
- Jesus & Buddha: Love your enemies and forgiving those who wrong you.
- Jesus & Laozi: Those who humble themselves will be elevated.
- Jesus & Confucius: Emphasized cultivating inner virtue and sincerity above formal rituals.
- Jesus & Buddha: Non-Attachment to Material Wealth
- Jesus& Buddha : Compassion
- Jesus & Confucius: Remove the log from your eye before the speck from another.
- Jesus & Laozi: "I am the path to truth"
The early Starlink constellation clearly mirrored the design (up to inclination and number of satellites) of the National Academy of Science report on a modern SDI / Star Wars Program https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13189/making-sense... ... it was obvious to me then. But soon after the Republican administration started calling for further funding of such a program https://www.science.org/content/article/decades-after-reagan... ... and now it's in Project 2025 and Trump campaign speeches.
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GPS altitudes and up are a different story.
- SpaceX first contract was DARPA Falcon Project (part of Prompt Global Strike). Possibly even where the Falcon name came from.
- SpaceX founding contracts with NASA were awarded by Elon's friend Michael D. Griffin https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career who architected global missile defense and designed space-space interceptors for SDI. His NASA COTS program was an unprecedented award and given to SpaceX before they had even flown a rocket. He also awarded CRS to SpaceX just before leaving office. This constituted 85% of all SpaceX funding (remaining 15% was Elon and a few investors). https://wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#2005%E2%80%932009:_Falcon_... Griffin was so important to Elon that it is rumored he named his first son after him (Griffin Musk).
- Griffin went on in 2019 to start the Space Development Agency where he advocated for global satellite constellations of sensors and space weapons. First contracts were given to SpaceX after Starlink seemed viable. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities
Lately it's unclear if Elon is still supportive of said programs as fervently as he did in the early days. He's still hiring for Starshield..
The whole thing seems built on deceit.
Dwarfing all that in the long term is the missile defense system (Space Development Agency project) that Griffin started in 2019.