[FRIAM] The Last Mile, again

[Gillian Densmore]

@Elon Musk  Hmm maybie. I subscribe to ScienceNow.  And get regular reeely
cool and hopeful news.
I'm a little skeptical
And I want to be proven wrong.

The ScienceNow aroticle I read reminded me a lot of the Starry, 'Starnet,
and StarLink', and Motorla's Iridium satalite stunts. Part of my skeptisism
is Musk has a thing geeking out via press confrences, and their also being
enormous issues between his brainstorming phase: and getting it into action
phase. He almost reminds me of the real life version of Doc Brown: Tesela
has had issues from word go./ His  hyperloop project keeps running into
issues and drama. On the other hand SpaceX  is starting get someplace,

On the other hand I do agree with him about needing to do something to keep
sciences moving. It looked like NASA was starting to stagnate.


On the other hand Nick you might be right. Musk tends to go for really big
ideas.  StarLink  and or something like it on paper looks hopefull for
filling the gaps and that is reeely cool



On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
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> Dear friends and relations,
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> There is a movement afoot to bring broad band to us here in the mosquito
> infested bog.  A group of locals is forming a for=profit company to bring
> internet (25/3) to hundreds of subscribers in our hilly, rural town.  They
> will put 4 “Radwin” transmitters atop 150 foot towers on two local hill
> tops with smaller repeaters as necessary.  The transmitters look for all
> the world like Mac Powerbooks.   Each house will have a waffle sized
> receiver. The plan for 200 dollar initial buy-in cost and a one hundred
> dollar per month subscription cost for UNLIMITED service at the advertised
> rate.  (No “up to”.)  I now pay about a hundred dollars a month for a
> Verizon jetpack which pays for only ten gigs of data.  To stay within that
> limit I have to turn off anything that moves on the internet, and go to the
> local library to get podcasts, movies, or to update software, or do a cloud
> backup.
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> In short, I am enthusiastic about the idea.  What’s wrong with it?  And if
> nothing is wrong with it, why haven’t  all you Eldorado folks done it
> already.  Go ahead.  Rain on my parade.   I asked them if they were afraid
> that Verizon would get religion and put in DSL at the last moment just to
> put them out of business.   Their response was that  local DSL service is
> so crappy that it probably wouldn’t make any difference.  They say their
> real competitor is Elon Musk who is planning a vast satellite service that
> will light up everyone in the universe
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> I gather you have all been suffering gale force winds and duststorms.
> Ugh.  We, for our part, have had seven snowfalls since we got here. (All
> minor, but still, relentlessly gray and chilly) The weather broke this
> weekend and the garden is beginning to be populated.   I hope the
> equivalent break is happening for you.
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> Miss you lots,
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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