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0 pointswafflemaker1mo ago0 comments

That's the whole plan with the space servers. As soon as we sort out a few problems, we're good to go.

Problems: Solar flare & radiation resistance. Heat dissipation. Energy (more effective solar panels, for things as close to sun as we).

Partially solved - getting to orbit. And as much as we hate musk, SpaceX might solve it once Starships start flying commercially.

If we would separate energy part out and beam it somehow, we could sit in a body's shadow in some Lagrange point equivalent for a given body system and greatly reduce heat dissipation requirements and suspectibility to solar flares.

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pseudony1mo ago

Look at what he does now, you honestly think a person this greedy would ever exercise less than maximum control?

Towaway691mo ago

Wait a one minute, who owns those space Servers? The same guy who runs starlink? The one who uses that power to threaten to cut access to those who refuse to do his bidding?

Come on, pull the other one, surely it can’t be that something so useful can be used as a tool for Mafia style politics.

RobotToaster1mo ago

As someone extremely sceptical of musk, I do have some hope that competition between spacex and it's Chinese competitors will make space somewhat accessible to hobbyists.

Towaway691mo ago

Hobbyist is another name for consumer, so yes, consumer will have access as long as they pay.

Those that can’t pay or are politically undesirables, will be excluded from the global commons of space.

My take is that the great dream of unifying humanity through the internet won’t be helped by having it run in space.

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0 pointswafflemaker1mo ago0 comments

That's the whole plan with the space servers. As soon as we sort out a few problems, we're good to go.

Problems: Solar flare & radiation resistance. Heat dissipation. Energy (more effective solar panels, for things as close to sun as we).

Partially solved - getting to orbit. And as much as we hate musk, SpaceX might solve it once Starships start flying commercially.

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pseudony1mo ago

Look at what he does now, you honestly think a person this greedy would ever exercise less than maximum control?

Towaway691mo ago

Wait a one minute, who owns those space Servers? The same guy who runs starlink? The one who uses that power to threaten to cut access to those who refuse to do his bidding?

Come on, pull the other one, surely it can’t be that something so useful can be used as a tool for Mafia style politics.

RobotToaster1mo ago

As someone extremely sceptical of musk, I do have some hope that competition between spacex and it's Chinese competitors will make space somewhat accessible to hobbyists.

Towaway691mo ago

Hobbyist is another name for consumer, so yes, consumer will have access as long as they pay.

Those that can’t pay or are politically undesirables, will be excluded from the global commons of space.

My take is that the great dream of unifying humanity through the internet won’t be helped by having it run in space.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse