A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky
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A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky
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#2Billionaires are eating everything.
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#3Orbital data centers are a dumb idea. Put a solar farm in the desert and add some batteries? That’s cheaper.
So I wouldn’t be too worried about this, the economics of this won’t pan out.
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#4Orbital data centers are a dumb idea. Put a solar farm in the desert and add some batteries? That’s cheaper. So I wouldn’t be too worried about this, the economics of this won’t pan out.
Datacenters need cooling. Cooling always externalizes heat go the environment. The places you want centers are cold and water available.
Neither space or typical deaert.
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#5Orbital data centers are a dumb idea. Put a solar farm in the desert and add some batteries? That’s cheaper. So I wouldn’t be too worried about this, the economics of this won’t pan out.
The world seems to have become an abstract plaything for these billionaires why would they give a damn about practicality. This idiot shot a car into space for no good reason.
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#6Orbital data centers are a dumb idea. Put a solar farm in the desert and add some batteries? That’s cheaper. So I wouldn’t be too worried about this, the economics of this won’t pan out.
Datacenters need cooling. Cooling always externalizes heat go the environment. The places you want centers are cold and water available. Neither space or typical deaert.
Still easier to cool in the desert than in space
Re: A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky
#7Orbital data centers are a dumb idea. Put a solar farm in the desert and add some batteries? That’s cheaper. So I wouldn’t be too worried about this, the economics of this won’t pan out.
The world seems to have become an abstract plaything for these billionaires why would they give a damn about practicality. This idiot shot a car into space for no good reason.
He can blow his money on 1 million satellites that will all decay back into the atmosphere within a few years
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Datacenters need cooling. Cooling always externalizes heat go the environment. The places you want centers are cold and water available. Neither space or typical deaert.
Still easier to cool in the desert than in space
> Still easier to cool in the desert than in space
What is the physics and the math than let you conclude that?
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#9Proposals like this has more to do with Finance (spaceX quotation / funding / shares values) than real applications. But is anyway a risky very bad idea.
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