Billionaires won’t rest until they end life on Earth. A lot of these psychopaths believe in the big replacement. They are morons having no clue that they too will die.
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
Submitted 10 months ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to technology@lemmy.zip
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
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Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
TBH the billionaires might survive along with other cockroaches. They’ll at least outlast the plebs above ground…
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Remember they have to hire people to build those, and we will find them and destroy them before life ends. Those fucks don’t get to live.
JayTreeman@fedia.io 10 months ago
I haven't read the article, but know a little bit. This is a thing only a person that thinks space is magic would think is a good idea. The big reason is heat. More specifically how to get rid of it. Our more realistic and earthbound data centers primarily use electricity to power cooling. How do you get rid of the heat in space? There's nothing to transfer the heat to.
4am@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Also, power. MFers acting like we got dilithium crystals up in here. And yeah, we probably could do Star Trek style ships if we had a way to make power in space…but we don’t, like, at ALL
theneverfox@pawb.social 10 months ago
Umm… We absolutely do, solar panels. Constant full exposure to the sun adds up quick, especially when they don’t even need structural support
There’s plenty of problems with this idea, but power is the one strong point
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
This is a thing only a person that thinks space is magic would think is a good idea.
Pretty sure this is a primary basis of scientific “education”, worship of the moon/mars, etc.
It’s always been about extracting resources from rubes while actual humans suffer.
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 10 months ago
Only so much heat can be radiated away.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Anyone else feel like they are only floating this idea so that data centers in neighborhoods driving up the cost of electricity and polluting everything looks better by comparison?
jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Until someone has to go up to unplug it and plug it back in again. 😁
ceenote@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I propose we adopt the space data center idea, as long as the billionaire owner is the one who has to go maintain it.
They could just pull up on their bootstraps until they’re in orbit.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
They don’t need their bullshit grift to look good. They’re going to build it anyway.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Yeah, but that’s the point. It’s a boondoggle. Grifters need a bottomless hole for marks to pour money down.
WraithGear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
i believe that cooling in space is EVEN HARDER then cooling in atmosphere. something about a near vacuum being a terrible, terrible thermal conductor
Baggie@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Vibrating atoms got nowhere to disperse vibrations if no other atoms present
testfactor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To clarify, the article is just saying that it’s wildly unfeasible and prohibitively expensive.
They’re not saying it’s dangerous or going to harm people in some way.
I feel like some people may get the wrong idea from the headline.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You mean they didn’t mention that the laws of physics make data transfer to and from orbit an absolute PitA and that no one would sit around for that long?
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
It’s absolutely harmful to waste resources on worthless grifting at the expense of the planet and people suffering from very real deprivation.
That’s why it’s the same people promoting both the grift and the deprivation.
testfactor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sure, but that’s not what the article is saying, to be clear.
the_q@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I like how the absurdity scale just keeps going up when all we gotta do is kill like 400 people. Simple solutions.