SpaceX’s proposed cloud constellation of a million satellites named “Starmind”
Elon Musk has confirmed that SpaceX has named its proposed constellation of a million data computing satellites will be dubbed “Starmind”, following its pattern in recent years of naming every new project in a similar manner.
After Starship, Musk has named every project a variation thereof. We have had Starlink, Starshield, Starbase, Starfactory, Starfall, and now Starmind. It is also building natural gas pipeline to supply methane to Boca Chica that it has dubbed Starpipe.
The company hopes to launch the first Starmind satellites on Starship early in 2027.
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Incidentally, Musk noted on X that they have too many ‘Star’ prefixes, and will try to move away from that.
More like “Sky Net.”
Terminator 2
Genesis of Sky Net
https://youtu.be/4DQsG3TKQ0I
1:12
“It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern Time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug…”
All I want is an announcement by Musk on 4/1/2027, stating that after a thorough and detailed study, SpaceX engineers have decided to construct the Starship/Superheavy components subjected to the greatest stresses out of . . .
“Unbreakable” hair combs.
Watch your supermarket shelves fo Starchow, auto dealerships for Starcar… wait a second on that one
“Count Off”
Sugar Sparkled Oat-Cereal
By Post (1962)
https://youtu.be/8Kwa_NXf2H8
1:00
Let’s not forget ‘Starman’ traveling space in a Tesla Roadster.
He could give the X thing a rest too
I would have left it “Twitter”
So a solar powered AI is going to be perfectly safe for us in the future?
What will it eventually control?
Your cars, our trains and busses. Our new self driving semi trucks?
Our military drones?
And how many people would be happy giving up their freedom for security by machine?
Wait for the AI system that can fake a news broadcast. And the AI decides to only tell you what it thinks you need to hear.’
‘Or that bad actor that uses the AI systems to control the masses.
I left a suggestion over on X a few weeks ago that they should name it Starthink, but, hey, close enough. Before SpaceX retires the Star prefix entirely, though, I wish it would come up with one more such by way of renaming the Super Heavy. I think Starboost has a nice ring to it.
SH deserves the name “Nova” more so than Stoke’s first stage.
I agree. But filching that name now would smack entirely too much of punching down. And maybe by the time Stoke is working on Nova 3 it will have something more worthy of the name.
Busting through LEO in the future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmG5tUCrrsA
Earth*Voyager had to fly through a junk belt too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDFF9sIT6jE
I heard on one of the SpaceX following YouTube channels recently that the natural gas pipeline they are planning to build from Brownsville out the StarBase launch site to support an on site liquification plant has been name StarPipe. Tongue in cheek I am sure but venturing into the absurd imho.