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| Elon Musk’s quest to repopulate the Earth Posted: 08 Jul 2022 08:08 AM PDT  Elon Musk's pinned tweet is from May. It's a chart from The Wall Street Journal showing that the US fertility rate has been below the "replacement level" since the 1970s. "USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50 years," was Musk's contribution to the tweet. He's been talking about population decline for years, actually. He's even talked about it as one of the greatest issues facing humanity, and his solution is simple: have more kids, everybody! Say this for Musk: dude practices what he preaches. Insider reported this week that Musk had twins last November with Shivon Zilis, a star in the AI world, a longtime colleague of Musk's at OpenAI and Tesla, and a current executive at Neuralink. The twins came to be in the... |
| Starlink’s Dishy McFlatface internet now available for Boaty McBoatfaces — just $5,000 per month Posted: 08 Jul 2022 02:44 AM PDT  Starlink's internet-from-space service continues expanding to new use cases with the launch of Starlink Maritime. What started in the home before expanding to stationary RVs is now available for boats on the move, at a cost of $5,000 a month. SpaceX is targeting merchant vessels, oil rigs, and wealthy owners of superyachts with the service. Starlink Maritime also requires a one-time $10,000 purchase of two ruggedized high performance Starlink dishes which ship in about two weeks, according to the US order page. By comparison, the hardware for Starlink's Residential and RV services costs $599 and includes a single (smaller) "Dishy McFlatface" (as the dish is known to fans), with monthly subscriptions of $110 for the home service or $135... |
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