>>12679842Guess it's meant to look casual and like they're a scrappy underdog startup. Funny how Amazon and Bezos weren't really interested in LEO internet until SpaceX actually got hundreds of satellites into orbit and suddenly it became "Oh shit, this is really possible?"
Virgin also has expressed an interest in having their own competing system. Nothing wrong with that. If we have three systems to choose from, that would be good, but Amazon and Virgin shouldn't be able to artificially hobble Starlink just because they're a decade behind. But Bezos didn't purchase the Washington Post for nothing. He's used it to gain status with certain politicians and now he's calling in his chips.
