I Told Elon Musk We Should Have Space Internet, Musk Announces It a Month Later

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you told elon musk we should have Space data storage. even charitably taking the premise that this is the same thing as "space internet" (it isn't) is it possible that you are the not the first person to ever think about this rather obvious next-logical-step? I mean it's certainly not possible the Elon Musk was inspired in this case by Vint Cerf, the father of TCP/IP who has been advocating for some time for a latency-tolerant interplanetary Internet. (source: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/solar.html. Year? 2000.)

Sorry bro. http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/11/7192173/satellite-elon-mu...

Sounds like he planned for satellite internet and is now (post my tweet) talking about putting internet devices on planets.

That being said, I KNOOOOW he didn't steal my idea. A plea for self-importance would make it tempting for some, but let's be realistic...what are the chances he even saw my tweet in the first place? And to scramble to put together plans for exoplanetary internet in a month?

It just makes for a good story, doesn't it? ;)

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