This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Bob Zimmerman about Starling.

This is the satellite-based system.

You take a dish and put it on your roof high enough above the tree line.

I'm in rural Connecticut and you

connect it with a hard wire to displays throughout the house wireless or directly

into your computer if you wish. The download and

upload times are astonishing. In addition it never fails, doesn't have power

outages. The satellites swim overhead. There's a program you can

get to see the satellites how many there are. They're coming over. Starlink.

Bob testifies to how much it's earning with just 4 million customers so far.

It's for rural America, but also it's a good backup even if you're in urban America,

because it never fails like parts of

urban America's internet.

We've all been familiar with that possibility in New York.

So I recommended highly, but Bob also takes it

to another direction, paying for everything

out of the revenue from Starlink

and other monetizing principles for SpaceX, a private mission

to the moon, a private mission to Mars, paid for a buy. The customer base, of course. Here's

Bob Zimmerman to explain more of this later in the week

This is good news and this is related to the SpaceX as well

SpaceX up everyone has always assumed that if you're going to be able to finance building a Mars

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