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I got a quick geography lesson for you. 90% of the Earth's surface has no reliable cell coverage.

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Oceans, mountains, deserts, jungle, the things that cover most of the planet, they're all dead zones.

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In fact, even places that aren't dead zones, like driving, we're in New York,

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driving through upstate New York, there is frequent times in which I just completely

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lose cell connection and am offline for better or for worse.

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But SpaceX has come along and decided that those days are over.

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The day of the dead zone is a day of the past.

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It's just we will never have dead zones again because last week they rebranded

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their satellite's phone service as Starlink Mobile and announced a second generation

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of these satellites that deliver 100 times the data capacity of what's already

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up there today with no dish, no special hardware.

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It works with your current iPhone at up to 150 megabits per second from space.

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That's enough to stream 4K Netflix video. That's enough to watch anything on

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YouTube, FaceTime with your friends. So this is a pretty compelling product

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that they're launching, which might come as a threat to a lot of the cellular

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providers that we use today, like Verizon, AT&T, and even T-Mobile.

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This is going to be a pretty big deal.

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Ejaaz:
Yeah, I've got to be honest. I started off as a hater towards Starlink because

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I was kind of like, okay, cool. We get additional phone coverage.

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Who cares? Like, I'm not going to be in the mountains like for 99% of the time during the year.

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But I really saw the use of Starlink come to life during the LA wildfires.

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This was a major catastrophe event where a lot of LA was on fire and a lot of

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cellular the towers were down.

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So you had like millions of people that had no access to data or basic phone

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services that could call for loved ones or emergency services.

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And Starlink just kind of dropped in and they beamed, I think,

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150 emergency messages in the space of like 48 hours, which helped so many people

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communicate and deal with the fires to around 4.4 million people.

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So this is really necessary technology. And I guess like the way that they're

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scanning this is like pretty cool now.

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Yeah. So let's talk about what Starlink is right now, because as it is, it currently exists.

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In fact, there's 10 million users of it right now. So SpaceX launched this direct-to-cell

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satellite service back in January of 2024, just two years ago.

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And the first ones went up pretty quietly, but within days, their engineers

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were actually demonstrating texts from unmodified phones.

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It was the first time that an unmodified cell phone could actually send texts,

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video calls, and then actually FaceTime and watch videos in real time.

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It was slow, but now there's 650 direct-to-cell satellites that are in orbit,

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which is a tiny fraction of their 10,000 total satellites that are in orbit.

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But it's still the world's largest provider of 4G coverage because it reaches

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10 million users, over 32 countries and six continents.

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No one has that reach that Starlink has. In the U.S., you've probably heard

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of this through T-Mobile. They have T-Satellite, which is their branded version.

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And that's the $10 a month add-on that allows you to access this today.

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So currently, it does SMS, picture messaging, location sharing.

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It works with WhatsApp, Google Maps, AccuWeather.

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And your phone automatically switches over to satellite service if you lose service.

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But it doesn't have the bandwidth that this new version is going to have.

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And that's the big difference maker is the bandwidth is really going to unlock

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a lot of new use cases for this.

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Ejaaz:
Yeah. Speaking of because I was questioning why T-Mobile can't do the same thing.

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And the truth is they just don't have the infrastructure or scale to be able

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to upgrade the technology at all.

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Ejaaz:
You mentioned that they have access to Starlink through that package.

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They currently have 120 million users, but they only cover around 80% of the US.

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Starlink covers literally the

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rest of that already with the 650 satellites that you already mentioned.

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So although Starlink is kind of behind right now, you mentioned it's just like

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a fraction of the total like 10,000 satellites that they have in orbit right now.

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I think they could catch up really frigging fast because they also have access

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to the space shuttle as well.

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Yeah, and if you look at this chart, I mean, the growth is about as perfect

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of an exponential as it gets.

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They just crossed 10 million after crossing 8 million the month before.

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After crossing 7 million and starting at zero just six years ago.

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So Starlink adoption is up big time. And maybe we could talk about what actually

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makes this new mobile version 2 so much better.

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And one of the things that I'm going to share, I had Claude make this for me,

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so forgive me if it's a little messy, but this is the difference between these

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version 2 satellites and the version 1 satellites.

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What we're seeing here in this traditional geo orbit thing, these orange lines,

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this is what it used to look like.

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So it's basically like shining a giant spotlight down on Earth.

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And the spotlight has to serve a lot of customers at once. What we're seeing

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in this other part, which is the Starlink V2, it's in low Earth orbit.

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So you'll notice that the traditional geosynchronous orbit, 35,000 kilometers high.

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This new one is only 550 kilometers high. It's much lower. And it uses these

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thousands of spot beams.

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So instead of one giant flashlight, it's using spotlights to point at all of

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the users on the ground. And because it's so much lower, the latency is better.

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The bandwidth is better. It's much faster to connect these satellites.

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And the result is that it delivers a 20 times throughput on versus current models of starlink v1 so

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This is 16 times more beams per satellite. The face-oriented antennas are five

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times larger than the current ones, and it's 100 times the data density of version one.

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So it's this gigantic exponential improvement in terms of bandwidth and what

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people are actually going to be able to use this service for.

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I do want to level set for everyone listening what that bandwidth means.

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So it's coming in at around 150 megabits per second, which is really good internet.

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Like no one is going to complain about that. But compared to like the average

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in the US, which is, I think, around 220 megabytes to 250.

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It's not lightning fast, but it's good enough. And the fact is,

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like, billions of people all around the world will get access to this no matter

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how remote they are, which is awesome.

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The other thing I find friggin' awesome is they built their own custom silicon

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chip for these satellites.

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And the media company that I thought of is Apple. Apple's done that entire thing

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for all of their cellular phones, and it's given them the ability to operate

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or own the entire stack of that technology.

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So Apple knows what its chips are capable of. So it knows what kind of products,

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apps, or software they can run.

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That's why they have the best phones, in my opinion, in the world.

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Elon's doing the same thing that Apple did to phones, two satellites right now.

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He owns the Starships, he owns the satellites, and now he'll own the hardware

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that builds on or that is composed of those satellites as well. It's just really cool.

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And not only does he own the hardware, he owns the Spectrum.

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And we recorded an episode about this.

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Last year because it was this like quiet news event that kind of went under

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the radar but what they bought is a chunk of spectrum and that spectrum enables

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them to handle and essentially take the job of these cellular providers because

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the way this works is there's a global spectrum there's a global like bandwidth of spectrum.

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Customers or companies own so verizon owns some t-mobile owns

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some starlink bought a chunk of this and it's limited by the fcc

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you can only own a specific bandwidth because that's how you

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connect to these cell phones with spacex buying

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it they bought what is it 50 megahertz of exclusive s-band spectrum

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um for 17 billion dollars the deal closed for

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this was not a small acquisition by any means but what it does

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is it enables them to act as a standalone carrier

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and i think this is a really important point because forever they've

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been they've had to partner with t-mobile they've had to partner with international

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suppliers to distribute this and with

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this new bandwidth that they have they can actually create their own cellular provider

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service and i'm not sure who's not going to want to subscribe to a

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starlink mobile plan if it is as fast as everything else

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with no dead zones it just seems like they have such an advantage over everyone else

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so in summary spacex mobile v2 has some

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pretty awesome things going on let's just recap this quickly so it's

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available on 40 plus apps and 100 plus devices this service

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will offer video calls streaming emails it's available in

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32 countries covering 1.7 billion people the

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next generation of starlink mobile satellites version 2 delivers full cell

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coverage to places never thought possible via the highest performing

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satellite to mobile network ever built is their quote basically anywhere in

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the world there's not gonna be a single dead zone with this new network uh the

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v2 starlink mobile satellites also use the custom designed silicon just like

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apple did and these satellites will support thousands of beams using phased

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array antennas versus the traditional,

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which is a kind of spotlight that is low bandwidth.

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And then version two enables full 5G cellular connectivity compared to the current

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terrestrial services, which are only available on the ground. And that's lame.

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That does not include space exploration. That does not include beaming satellite lasers down.

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Ejaaz:
You know, it's hilarious that you're talking about satellites and beaming lasers

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to Earth, but that's not even the craziest part of this entire technology that's enabling this.

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We've got an entire new spaceship that's coming out, right? Like,

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how does this help us achieve what Starlink's trying to do with V2 here?

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Yeah, so in order to launch these new satellites into orbit,

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you need a much larger rocket ship.

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I mean, each one of these Starlink satellites will weigh 2,000 kilograms,

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and they're spanning 33 feet long.

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And Starship is going to put 50 of these into orbit at once.

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So currently, the way that you get these satellites into space is putting them

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on a Falcon rocket. There's Falcon 9, there's Falcon Heavy.

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There's only a limited amount of cabin space in there. that unfortunately doesn't

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fit these new gigantic satellites that are required in order to enable this

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Starlink V2 service. So Starship is necessary.

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The problem is that Starship is not working quite yet.

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The Starship program has been in the works for many years.

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They've been doing many test flights with varying degrees of success and failure,

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but it's still not ready.

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So what they're guiding towards now is 2027 next year for the actual launch and distribution.

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You got to wait a whole year for this Mobile 2. Not for the current version.

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So the current version works with existing cell phones, existing hardware.

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Because there's also something separate that needs to happen,

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which is a new chip architecture for the cell phones that we use.

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Qualcomm actually is making a chip that works direct to cell.

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So it's rumored to be included in the next iPhone 18.

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It's rumored to be included in the new Samsung Galaxy phones.

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All of the new phones coming out at the end of this year, next year,

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they're going to be equipped with the hardware to enable this.

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So there's the convergence of SpaceX Starship actually working,

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and then the cell providers getting on board with this new network architecture

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so that your cell phone can work without any additional chips inside of it,

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without any additional hardware or satellite dishes or anything.

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It'll just work the same way that Verizon or AT&T does.

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Ejaaz:
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50 satellites. Is that correct?

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Yes, about 50 of these.

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About 50. Okay, so then I think the idea is you need around 1,200,

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this is from Starlink themselves, 1,200 satellites of these new satellites up

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there for us to be able to have global continuous coverage.

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So that's like what? That's like 24 launches?

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So like that doesn't seem like much. Like we could probably pull this off in

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like a year once these starships are actually mobile, right?

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Yeah, it seems like this will go fairly quick. They're gonna be able to launch

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50 of these Starlink satellites per flight.

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And yeah, once they deploy those 1200 satellites, they're good.

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So it sounds like they're targeting six months from the time they launched the

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first one to the time that the network will be complete, which is fairly short.

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So with this guidance, it's mid-2027. It's looking like there will be complete and total coverage.

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And the V2 Starlight Constellation caps at 15,000 satellites.

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So 1,200 will be sufficient.

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15,000 will be fully saturated. And that probably takes a few years to get to.

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But man, that ramp up is going to be quick. And it's going to be available to

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everyone pretty quickly.

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Isn't it just Elon versus Elon at this point? I was framing it in my head like

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They need Starship for this to work, but also Starlink doesn't exist or no other

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competitor exists unless you have Starship.

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Like you need the vessel to get into space.

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which now owns the AI company and all these other things.

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So it really is just a monopoly that is about to emerge.

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And Elon's at the forefront of all of it. That's that's pretty cool.

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Absolutely right. I mean, Blue Origin is trying. There are other satellite companies

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that are trying, but no one is going to be able to get what Starship can do.

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I mean, they're at least five years behind at most, maybe 10, 15.

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I mean, the space is really hard and even Starship doesn't work yet.

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So they have to break this like novel problem set just in order to get these satellites into space.

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And everyone else is so far behind. But what enables them to do this is this

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flywheel that they have, the revenue flywheel, where Starlink,

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the residential service that has been powering people's Wi-Fi across the country,

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that's generating a lot of revenue, too. I mean, they have 10 million users now.

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And then that creates this unbelievable

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market flywheel for SpaceX to continue to grow the market cap.

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Oh, so they put the revenue from that into Starship.

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That's how it's funding the Starship program. Exactly. But it seems like they

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might need even more money than that because there are rumors on the street

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that they are going to IPO soon.

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And thanks to our friends over at Polymarket, we have the exact odds of when

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they're going to go public this year.

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It seems like it's a near certainty. there's an 88% chance that they go public

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before December 31st, 81% chance that it's by September 30th,

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and a 62% chance by June 30th.

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So it seems like the probable window is sometime middle to late of this year.

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I've heard rumors that it's coming sooner. People want to come sooner,

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but it seems like Polymarket disagrees. But it seems like we're getting a SpaceX IPO this year. How,

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There's another Polymarket for that, which shows that it's going to be almost

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guaranteed over a trillion bucks.

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Like $1 trillion plus is $92%. Yeah, so there's a 92% chance this goes over a trillion.

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It seems like it is going to be IPO-ing, I mean, well above a trillion,

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probably between 1.5 to 1.75 is what the rumors are saying.

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Polymarket confirms. Thank you again, Polymarket, so much for sponsoring this

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section of the episode. And I mean, again, SpaceX is just like this unbelievable

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company that is seemingly coming for everyone. And they're threatening a lot

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of companies along the way.

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they have a serious problem on their hands.

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like my phone runs on T-Mobile.

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They're the dominant provider in the US at least. But I feel like it's a ticking time bomb for them.

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Like they have this exclusive partnership with SpaceX, right?

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You pay an extra 10 bucks, you get access to the satellites,

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but that's only for one year.

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So I can imagine that other broadband providers or telecom providers like AT&T

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and stuff are going to try and outbid them, but they're outbidding the guy that's

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going to eventually replace them.

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So like, I don't really understand how the economics of this work.

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Are they just kind of buying an extra lifeline whilst they figure out their

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own satellite deployment, but then they need to rebuild an entire space company

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to be able to launch that on.

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So I don't understand how AT&T

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and all these other telecom providers survive. Am I missing something?

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Well, there's a lot of strain on these networks.

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Like there's a lot of people who demand a lot of data and starlink is not

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going to be able to subsidize all of that so there will still be

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the need for these ground-based coverages that work in particular for higher

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density areas that need a lot of bandwidth so you'll notice one of the newer

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things is 5g uwb ultra wideband and that is the super high power bandwidth that

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gives you up to like a gigabit per second of internet in fact it's so good it's

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replacing some of the wi-fi,

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setups that people have in their homes because it's very high powered their

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local cell towers That is a unique advantage to ground-based infrastructure.

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It has much lower latency. It has much greater bandwidth. But if you are not

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contingent on needing infrastructure,

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a terabit per second, and you value this additional coverage anywhere in the

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world, then Starlink is probably for you.

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plans. People take it on road trips, people take it camping.

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If you live on a farm somewhere, you don't have connection. It's better than

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most of the options that we have today, but it's just going to apply to the phone.

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So while it might not replace these cell companies entirely,

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it certainly will start to displace some of their customers if they don't partner

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with them like T-Mobile is doing.

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Wait, Josh, I think I have a answer to my own question,

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Which is what do you got?

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Well, like I was thinking about like Starlink having coverage for anywhere in the world, right?

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Including really rural remote areas where there's not that many people.

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So why would that be useful? Like who are the people and customers that are

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going to be paying for that? And then I realized it's probably not going to be people.

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It's going to be like autonomous vehicles or farming infrastructure or any device

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that requires the internet that can extract or observe data and feed it back

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into a system that might be AI, for example,

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would be inherently useful for these satellites, for this internet connectivity.

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Sorry, I just had like a mind blown experience whilst realizing this.

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I was like, oh, it's not just for humans. It's for any and every detection or

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device system that's out there. And you can place that remotely on the beacon

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or the top of a mountain or somewhere completely icy and remote.

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Like the world's your oyster there.

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This is a really important point for the Internet of Things.

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As we start to deploy a lot more hardware that's using AI models,

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that's using, you know, inference or reasoning models, there is going to be

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a benefit to having it online.

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And a lot of places in which these things happen are rural.

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They don't have a lot of infrastructure. and giving it that cellular connectivity,

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it's going to be a pretty big deal because traditionally in order to do this,

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you need a big satellite.

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Now it's compressed down to the size of a small little iPhone chip.

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I mean, you could put that on anything and that really enables a lot of the world.

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And when you think about the world broadly, three to 4 billion people on earth

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have no reliable internet connection.

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Like they just cannot access the internet. And in a world in which it's so connected

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and that has so much value, there is such a huge untapped market available for Starlink.

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And what we're seeing is they've, they frequently make it free in

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places of chaos or places that are

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having issues because they want to help out the people but i'm sure

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there will be subsidized plans for even lower income countries or

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areas where they can really bring the whole world online and

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it's this incredibly powerful technology that is here and it's growing exponentially

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and with this starlink or with the starship v3 launches it's going to start

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to be deployed in the real world and by this time next year there's a good chance

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that these v2 satellites are going to be very close to launching and by the

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end of next year, we'll have a full network of them.

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Ejaaz:
It's hard to wrap my head around all of this being owned by one single company.

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SpaceX owns the Starships. They own the satellites.

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They own the AI. They own the distribution layer through the social media company.

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And I'm sure I'm missing a bunch of other companies embedded within that and projects within that.

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This IPO is going well over one trillion, dude. I'm going to bet like 1.5 to 1.7 probably closes.

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Josh:
That seems like a good bet.

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Ejaaz:
If it launches mid-year, I'm guessing it's going to be over two trillion by

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the end of the year. This might be bull market speaking, but that's my bet.

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So are you a buyer of SpaceX? Are you interested in joining the IPA?

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But I can go further than that. I'll be a buyer and a holder.

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Like, I don't care what the price does.

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Like, this company is a once-in-a-lifetime generational company,

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probably literally out of this world.

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So I'm going to hold and bet on Elon for this one.

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Josh:
Yeah, you and me both. I'm in it. This is going to be really exciting.

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I will be holding my SpaceX shares for an eternity.

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And I'm just, like, admiring from afar and from hopefully close up of all these

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amazing things they're doing,

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how they're changing the world and how it's just uniquely positioned in a

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way that no other company can do they've been building this for so long

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and they have such a far head start and they're just continuing to

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put their foot on the gas and crush it so that is the starlink update that is

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the cool new technology that is coming to a cell phone near you the days of

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dead zones are over and i cannot personally wait because i go hiking a lot i

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love being out in the middle of nowhere and i never have connection and some people value that but.

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Ejaaz:
When you don't those instagrams

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When it's emergence is yes someone's got to post the pictures come on

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now um or perhaps you just want to like you know reach out to someone or find

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a map so you don't get lost or don't get hurt there's a lot of help yeah there's

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a lot of use cases across the board regardless of whether you want to be connected

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to the internet or not it is valuable having that option and that's what spacex

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enables and that's what starlink is going to do and it's just this unbelievably impressive project,

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From Elon and co. And yeah, it's just been awesome. So hope you enjoyed this

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episode. Any final thoughts before we leave?

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Ejaaz:
No, it's been awesome. Thank you, folks, for listening. There are thousands,

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literally thousands of new listeners to the show. So welcome.

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and getting it to play a computer game as well as uploading a fly brain go check

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and yeah that's it we'll see you guys on the next one

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Josh:
Awesome thanks for watching see ya.