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1 hour agoI have never seen someone who is so in desperate need of praise. At this point it’s gone past pathetic.
billwashere
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The best way to make an atheist is to force them to read the Bible.
3·2 hours agoSpace really isn’t cold. Temperature is a measure of how fast particles (atoms, molecules) are moving.
In a perfect vacuum with no particles at all, you literally couldn’t define a temperature, because there’s nothing around to jiggle
Can we just ban him instead?
Ummm….
“All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there.” - Arthur C. Clarke 2010
This is just dumb
I knew he looked familiar
My main problem with this is I can’t sell or trade a digital game after I’m done with it. This needs to be
feltdelt with legally.
Yeah I totally missed that.
Well TIL … I subscribed to the first two but the last one didn’t work for some reason.
Not to my knowledge. But I assume this is nothing new and any reasonable person could come up with the same thing. I did google the ISS thing so that part may have come from there.
One think I miss from reddit… /r/datahoarder
These were my people. I probably have 100TB but it certainly isn’t in my home directory. I’m not sure if I should be immpressed or freightened.
And Bezos apparently…
These chucklefucks are just trying to get some sucker… er I mean investor to fund the whole thing so their respective space companies can do the job.
And after doing to some very cursorary research other issues like…
- Radiation and reliability - apparently cosmic radiation is a bitch
- Lifecycle costs - I should have thought about this one. It’s not like when a drive dies in space you just drive down to the DC to replace it. And not mention we recycle out compute about every 5-6 years or so.
- Connection - somebody mention this already in the thread but yeah you ain’t hanging a fiber cable to a satellite
Two main problems with data centers. Power and cooling. In space the power is doable. The cooling is a major pain in the ass and always has been. There are only three ways to get rid of heat. Conduction, convection, and radiation. The first two don’t work because of the vacuum thing. The third is horribly inefficient. Just look at the ISS and the giant fins that only dumps about 70 kW of waste heat through radiator “wings” that weigh several tons. A single rack in a high density compute rack can generate 100kW by itself.
So yeah given the expensive and how inefficient it is, it’s a terrible idea.
Edit: I’m a system architect so dealing with data center heat is something I’m familiar with.
They are not the same thing. One is a wealth tax. One is an income tax. Rich people don’t pay income taxes.
Make it 1% and make it yearly.
Americans yes. With Biden I was so happy I didn’t have to wake up every morning to see what bat shit crazy thing the president had said the day before.
The rest of the world… and the fact we fucking did it twice no less… it’s gonna take a decade or more to trust us again. Maybe more.