The future of internet access is through cell phone networks, not satellites

In 5-10 years, we might see DSL and Cable being replaced by internet through mobile networks - current ones are Verizon/T-Mobile/ATT/Boost/Virgin Mobile.

Elon's Musk's suggestion of covering the planet with wifi through low orbiting satellites is not practical. He suggested launching more than 4,000 satellites (through SpaceX, of course), to cover the planet with wifi signals, especially in hard to reach places.

While this approach would work well for remote locations, it is not practical for areas already covered with cell phone signal and towers (most of the urban areas in the world). The most practical solution is to deliver internet through the same networks our cell phones currently use, and, in fact, this is already happening. The issue is that it's just too expensive at the moment, but eventually, very decent internet speeds will be obtained at fairly cheap prices through cell phone networks.

While they would probably never match the speed of a wired signal, not everyone needs that speed, for most people, the speed achieved through cell phone network will be sufficient. 

Elon Musk pursues personal financial goals when advocating colonizing Mars

Reddit, and especially its Futurology sub, is peppered with articles about Elon Musk. I guess the click bait works well with his name in it.

On the list of the problems United States is facing today, colonizing Mars should really NOT be a priority. This endeavor, if ever undertaken by human kind, should be a JOINT effort by the whole human civilization, not by the US government giving billion dollar contracts to SpaceX, which is what Mr. Musk specifically wants.

The United States currently faces a failing healthcare, education and prison industry. The available money shouldn't be going to SpaceX or NASA, it should be going towards those in need and towards reforms of those industries. Going to Mars should be a joint effort, like the International Space Station, however, I do not see the European, Russian or Chinese space stations advocating colonizing Mars, mainly it's just Mr. Musk

To underline, I do NOT oppose Mr. Musks companies - Tesla and SpaceX. It's great that SpaceX is researching rocket technology and putting people to work. However, Musk's ultimate goal in all this is self-fulfillment and enrichment. He wants to be famous. He wants to be rich. He is now both.

He is advocating things that directly financially benefit him. This must be understood and remembered in relation to all the online PR his team generates daily to prop up Tesla's stock price while it keeps losing money every quarter without fail.

Time Relative to Size - and how it all relates to speed.

Experience of time is definitely relative to size.

If we take an hour of time, to a bigger entity it will seem shorter than to a smaller entity. Bigger animals for the most part live longer than smaller ones as well.

If we take the same amount of time, it will seem longer for something smaller than something bigger. IE, for a fly, living one day is like a lifetime for humans. So if we expand it to the universe, the whole existence of the universe might seem like ONE SECOND for the universe itself. or even, just a blink of an eye. Human life, in universe terms, passes in the blink of an eye. but yet to each human, it's long.

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We all know that time slows down once you get closer to the speed of light. But how's this related to size?? So, if we take someone going on a star journey and coming back, time slowed down for them in comparison to someon on earth.

But could it be that your size EXPANDS once you travel faster, ie you are sort of in TWO PLACES AT ONCE, thus becoming a literally bigger physical entity??

American Education System is an elaborate financial scam

One more thing I've realized after living in US for 20 years: the American education system is largely an elaborate financial RUSE. What the masses don't seem to realize is that the main benefactors of American education are the SCHOOLS and the people who run them, ie the 0.01% who own everything in this country.

This is not to say that the schools have no benefit. Quite the contrary, they do have a lot of benefit. The >problem< is that they are severely and catastrophically overpriced.
I am not even going to mention all the University of Phoenix and DeVries, as it's clear that those institutions and mainly driven by profit. But, in fact, even the most prestigious American schools brainwash many people to believing they are the ultimate places to go to get educated (for a huge cost, of course).

The whole school ranking system is one elaborate brainwash. People are fooled into dreaming of attending Stanford or Harvard? In hopes of being next Google founder? It's another American pipe dream. The most likely consequence of attending college is huge financial debt. That's guaranteed. A job is not.

The whole "ranking system" that puts American schools at top of the world's list is bought and paid for. Since American schools collect an enourmous amount of money, they can influence the rankings. As always, it all centers around money.

There are no friends in America - only competitors

The way americans treat each other deserves a special mention. it's a spartan society that is robotic, and merciless. weakness is frowned upon and dealt with quickly and severely. success is worshipped.
for many years I thought: maybe this is just me. People seem to be happy around me. Am I imagining all this? But no, I don't actually think I am.

I've never had a SINGLE true friend here, in all my years of living here. I had more happiness in my 13 years in Russia, even though we didn't have much there. I fondly remember my friends there. I don't have a SINGLE person in the US that I really connected with on any meaningful way. Instead, every single place I've been into, I was made to feel inferior in some way, like some kind of a sub-human.

i feel sorry for people born here actually. they've never experienced true friendship or true, kind interaction. it's all some kind of a rat race.
the system is designed to make everyone feel inferior, and the answer to inferiority is achievement or money? how goddam pathetic and tiring. this system results in extreme isolation as well, as everyone constantly measures each other on some scale, instead of actually enjoying life.

Government fees, Real Estate Prices and general American decline

The reason everything was better in the 1950s and 60s and before, is because back then, the american government was wasting much less money. once it started wasting money on wars (vietnam/korea/etc) things started going down hill. the crazy military spending was one of the main reasons soviet union fell apart. this might happen to US.

this trickles down to EVERYTHING. Let's take housing, for example. Reason housing dramatically went up in price is because THERE IS NOT ENOUGH OF IT BEING BUILT. Why? Because the government fees to build/permit things have increased, and places like San Francisco specifically limit and forbid new construction to artificially keep the prices up. If building new housing in SF were easier (like it is in Ohio/Indiana), prices would fall very quickly. But who wants that, right? Not the existing property owners with money who control things there.

Facebook Psychological Effect

Facebook is a very interesting psychological phenomenon. The reason it seems like everyone is doing great when looking at FB is that people almost NEVER post anything bad that happens to them. So you compare everything that happens in your life to only the greatest things that happen to other people.