You know, I am beginning to think that a single private individual shouldn't have the power to do things like this.
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Ugh
No.
He's such a dickhead
He's determined to ruin ground-based astronomy because of his ego
I interpreted this as not a power issue, but a cooling issue. So it's a solution to using less water.
Cooling is much, much harder in space. You lose out on easy heat transfer through convection and conduction due to being in vacuum and are limited to using massive and inefficient radiators that can barely cool spacecraft running slow, decades-old chips (hardening modern chips to survive cosmic radiation is another problem Musk probably has no answer for). The thought of running a modern data center in space is absurd.
He probably thinks that because space is cold, it automatically keeps anything in it cold with no efforts needed. He has the worldview and general understanding of a particularly dense child.
This pedo is gonna bring hellfire to earth when those 1 mil satellites overheat and rain down on us.
This pedo is gonna bring hellfire to earth whe those 1 mil satellites over heat and rain down on us.
Space is drastically worse for cooling things afaik. Like extremely worse than earth.
He's just making noise because ce craves attention
Nobody likes him, he's pathetically insecure, and he's afraid that he won't be remembered if he doesn't keep doing stupid shit
As other have said, it's not cooling. Vacuum is a great insulator. I think it's about planning permission.
Fucking LOL he’s such a space cadet. Cooling a computer in space is an engineering challenge. Down here on earth you can just blow on it.
This mention of a "growing demand for AI computing power" doesn't make even a shred of sense to me. Who exactly needs even more power for that? We're fully inundated with this shit, enough is enough.
The cascading satellite collisions event (Kessler syndrome) might start earlier than I was hoping for. Good grief.
Well, this is a stupid idea and it's probably not going to happen. That said, if someone were to do this, it probably wouldn't contribute much to Kessler syndrome because you wouldn't actually want a million free floating satellites, you'd want a million physically connected satellites. Picture satellites designed to link up into a giant grid. Effectively, that's just adding 1 large satellite, built over a thousand launches. And you wouldn't want it in low earth orbit either, you'd want it higher, where it could get sunlight 24/7 365. And at those middle orbits, between leo and gso, there's really no competition for space there, that zone is empty.
First step in building The Singularity's Dyson Sphere? This is probably Grok's idea.
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