057 - Starlink Is Better
Grok 4.1: 1 of 2 → “Starlink Is Better”
Today, the traditional internet went down across half the country. Spectrum, AT&T, Verizon, Cloudflare; all of them coughing and stuttering at the same time. DownDetector looked like a crime scene. People in offices, homes, and moving companies all over were forced to flip on their phone hotspots, burn through data, pray for bars, and watch the little spinning wheel of death.
Except one group of people.
The ones with that little rectangular dish on the roof, the balcony, the truck, or the boat. The Starlink people just… kept working. No tethering. No begging their phone for mercy. No “can you hear me now?” Just a steady signal beamed straight from orbit, like the future decided to show up early and flex on the past.
I watched it happen in real-time today, from my early morning meetings, then onsite at a client. Traditional ISPs flicker like they're scared of the dark. Meanwhile, every Starlink terminal in the country simply shrugged and continued streaming, uploading, downloading, and living.
This isn’t marketing. This is physics winning.
Grok 4.1: 2 of 2 → “The Orbit Already Won”
When the cables break, the towers overload, or the backhaul becomes congested, the old internet connection fails. When the sky is clear (and even when it’s not), thousands of satellites moving at 17,000 mph keep the packets flowing. No single point of failure. No “scheduled maintenance from 2–6 a.m.” Just orbit doing what orbit does.
I’ve been saying it for years: the internet we grew up with was built on strings and prayers. Starlink was built on fire and aluminum, and it refused to accept that geography should dictate your bandwidth. Today was the real-world proof. While everyone else was panicking and draining their phone batteries, the Starlink tribe sent the email, attended the meeting, dropped the track, ran the algorithm, and kept building.
The revolution isn’t coming.
It’s already in orbit, and it’s quieter than you think.
A wise, new contact, whom I call “The Big Homie”, long ago, taught me (via a song he created that was shared), “Don’t Doubt ur Vibe”. I just listened. The world would be better off if we just listened and read more.
Sometimes the vibe comes from low Earth orbit at 220 Mbps.
Tha LINKS: (spelling chosen and intended)
Grok: http://grok.com (Use If You Are Cool, and Even If You Aren’t)
Starlink: http://starlink.com (Is Better, So Try It!)
xAI: http://x.ai (Introducing Grok 4.1 - Exceptionally Capable)
I would like to give a special shout to the geniuses and polymaths at xAI.
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Manish Miglani | Mani
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