From: bugs@netcom.com (Mark Hittinger)
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 01:40:51 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: re: Billy boy's satellites [Was - Floating DataHavens]
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>
> > Vincent Cate wrote:
> > You can get Internet via radio links for reasonable prices.  And via
> > satellite for almost affordable prices.  When Bill Gates 900 satellites
> > get up there it should be very affordable.
>
> Gary Howland wrote:
> ... if a tad unrealiable?
> The thought of 900 satelites in low orbit, all running NT, makes me
> shudder.  Brings a new meaning to the expression "OS crash".
> 

Its been a little over a year but I had heard that the current design was
for a lower number of MEO satellites.  

I would think that cypherpunks would want to see this happen.  The political
problems are probably larger than the technical ones :-)

Regards,

Mark Hittinger
Netcom/Dallas
bugs@netcom.com