Internet aus dem Weltall ↦
Manchmal verwischen die Grenzen zwischen dem Parodie-Twitter-Account Bored Elon Musk und dem echten Elon Musk. Wie kann es sonst zu erklären sein, dass Elon neben Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity und dem Hyperloop noch Zeit hat sich einen die Erde umspannenden Internet Provider auszudenken.
In Musk’s vision, Internet data packets going from, say, Los Angeles to Johannesburg would no longer have to go through dozens of routers and terrestrial networks. Instead, the packets would go to space, bouncing from satellite to satellite until they reach the one nearest their destination, then return to an antenna on earth. “The speed of light is 40 percent faster in the vacuum of space than it is for fiber,” Musk says.