I'm really feeling seriously depressed about the disaster in orbit today, I already had a couple of meetings and a flurry of emails about the fucking awful SpaceX million satellite filing.
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I'm really feeling seriously depressed about the disaster in orbit today, I already had a couple of meetings and a flurry of emails about the fucking awful SpaceX million satellite filing.
It's Waitangi Day here, and I'm looking forward to learning a lot about Māori culture and seeing some geysers today. I'm going to try to lean in to the stunning natural beauty of the land I'm on today and the Indigenous knowledge that goes with it.
@sundogplanets Enjoy our downunder experience.
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@zompus @sundogplanets I think Elon tipped his hand when he said he wants a rail gun on the Moon to "launch data centers."
This was never about data centers. It's about extortion.
And between Trump, Cosplay Astronaut, and the Jesus Freak running DoD, they'll give it to him.
@emma @zompus @sundogplanets I think you can infer his reading list when he spouts his crazy. Rail guns is from 'the moon is a harsh mistress', data centres in orbit are mentioned in 'nueromancer'
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@emma @zompus @sundogplanets I think you can infer his reading list when he spouts his crazy. Rail guns is from 'the moon is a harsh mistress', data centres in orbit are mentioned in 'nueromancer'
@thedarknite @emma @sundogplanets Like the time Zuckerberg read Snow Crash and then threw his entire company behind "Metaverse"
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@sundogplanets It's bizarre to me to think that orbital data centers will be cheaper than ground-based ones, with having to power and cool them.
@zompus @sundogplanets
The Solar electricity isn't that much better than many places on Earth, panels are cheap, launch expensive.The Datacentres in space can't be cooled. No convection or water.
They can't be serviced.
Space electronics uses different chips to datacentres and they can't be shielded.
It's fantasy
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@mhkohne @sundogplanets My work involves both solar panels and HVAC, and I'm imagining the cost of launching enough power generation and cooling to run even one server rack. It's a grift all the way down.
@zompus @mhkohne @sundogplanets I mean. Basically that's what satellites already are. Lil special purpose compute systems run by solar panels in space. "Data centers in spaaaaaaace" is just generalizing the specific parts of it. And it's EPICLY stupid, those fuckers need to spin to dump waste heat. It would be cheaper to solve the vibration problem and stuff data centers under every Walmart parking lot.
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