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Have any of you been following the next Elon Musk business venture where he hopes to provide fiber type internet speeds (up and down) to all locations, even deep country areas, by satellite?
If you live in an area like me, country, woods and farms, internet speeds are a big limiting factor. I’ve looked into satellite based services a few different times over the past 10-15 years. Sadly, the upload speeds have been the breaking point in the technology for me. So, I’ve been forced to stick with DSL, as it’s my only option for high speed service. I get 25 down and 1.5 up.
Musk’s new business vision uses a new satellite based technology implementation that has 3 shells, or layers, of satellites at various depths or distances from earth. These shells would handle various tasks but together they hope to get fiber type of speeds nearly anywhere. And they hope to sign American based military services as one of their first customers.
I hope they are able to accomplish this, it would be awesome for my area. But it’s also more crap in our nights sky. Thoughts?

I've been somewhat following it. There are currently 3 different companies working on putting this technology into space over the next 2 years, however Elon's is furthest along at this point. Basically, think of it as Mesh Technology on a global scale with satellites. One concern I would have is that it requires ground connectivity from "stations" placed all over the world that are connected to the internet, and then the satellites would connect to those stations which then provides satellite internet service to you. In short, there's an extra point of failure and "hop" for all internet traffic.

Still, as you pointed out for anyone limited to slower speeds this will be HUGE.
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Rondale Moore (WR Purdue Boilermakers)

Imagine if you guys had Martinez...wowsers...

He would have still sat behind Haskins last year. At most he would be battling Fields or Baldwin for the starter's job this year in an offense more suited to Fields* or Baldwin's skill sets.

* - assuming Fields can be accurate with this downfield passing.

Dude is going to be fun to watch if he keeps developing and Scott Frost's offense should help him be a legit superstar in the B1G. Now if they could only figure out the rest of it.
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BTN BTN Prepares for the 2019 Big Ten Football Season

BTN Prepares for the 2019 Big Ten Football Season
BTN Communications via Big Ten Network

Ahead of the Big Ten Network’s 13th football season, BTN president François McGillicuddy today shared the network’s perspective on the 2019 season at Big Ten Football media days. “We are responsible for representing all Big Ten institutions across more than 40 games and over 750 hours of programming during 14 weeks of the 2019 Big Ten Football regular season,” said McGillicuddy. “To do that, our focus will be on three things –production of quality live games, compelling storytelling about the Big Ten Conference and the most expert Big Ten analysis.” The following updates were also provided: FOX Sports App Beginning

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S Todd Bell (All B1G, Pro Bowl, R.I.P.)

Former Buckeye Todd Bell Dies Of Heart Attack
ByBUCKNUTS.COM STAFF Mar 16, 2005
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COLUMBUS, Ohio: Former Ohio State football player Todd Bell died this morning of an apparent heart attack while driving his car in Columbus. Todd played defensive back for the Buckeyes from 1977 to 1980 and was a four-year starter. He was an All-Big Ten selection as a junior and senior.
Bell, who also competed on the OSU track team, had his best year as a junior, recording 87 tackles. He scored two touchdowns that year, including the winning score in an 18-15 win at Michigan where he scooped up a blocked punt and ran it into the end zone. The win sent the 11-0 Buckeyes to the Rose Bowl, where they lost a 17-16 decision to USC, costing them the national championship. In that game, the athletic Bell ran down Heisman Trophy winner Charles White from behind and stripped him of the ball to prevent a touchdown - a play that ranks as one of the great plays in Ohio State football lore.
Bell was from Middletown High School and was one of the most highly recruited football players in the nation as a senior.


https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...eye-Todd-Bell-Dies-Of-Heart-Attack-104181846/



cant believe its been that long!
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