“Musk and Thiel propose making this network of hundreds of surveillance and attack satellites into a subscription service that the Musk/Thiel/Luckey consortium would own and the Pentagon would subscribe to. Not only is this crazy and absurd but it goes without saying that in no normal time would anyone at the Pentagon be okay with the US not owning the hardware at the center of national defense.”

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Musk to Force Pentagon to Build and Then Pay Him to Use Network of Killer Satellites

This is a two day old article. But with so much else going on I hadn’t seen it. If you haven’t really must read it. It’s one of growing number of examples that…

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