Burden of proof is on Astrology claiming to be real.

• AI bad
• Astrology 100% superstitious bullshit

Yeah, like 3-4x/week.

This includes things like train tickets, because I refuse to have to have my phone with me.

Sheet music, shopping list, letters to doctors/government offices/…

Stop moving the goal post. To process satellite images, you need way, waaaaay, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay less compute than for AI datacenters. We are not arguing about image processing for a single satellite. (Which is still jot a great idea, ideally you’d want to improve throughput instead since you still want the raw images for people to work with, just faster, no?)

No, what you were talking about were data enters for AI (no, you didn’t say AI, but that’s what everyone on Lemmy says is a bad idea in space, and you were referring to everyone on Lemmy, so, we are talking about AI data enters in space).

• putting them in space doesn’t make them faster.
• putting them in space is incredibly expensive
• cooling them in space is way harder than on earth; radiating heat away is a function of the surface area of the cooling modules, and you cannot escape that
• maintenance (remember - things fail) is way harder and astronomically expensive and slow
• and, thanks for reminding me, sending AI output to and from is subject to the same slowness as for images from telescopes

Sorry, “data-center in space” is a stupid idea. Musk yaps about it because a) he’s an idiot and b) enough investors fell for it

Datacenters in space are a supremely stupid idea.

I know that this makes me fit exactly with what you were describing; indeed I’m not rejecting your premise, I just think you’ve chosen a hilariously bad example to demonstrate it.

I feel like one could legitimately run on this platform at this point.