Has it occurred to anyone that you can put computers underground? In this apocalyptic scenario you are describing, how do you expect the ground based command and control infrastructure to survive? Satellites are 100% reliant on ground based operations. That is a hard requirement. And if you put the command and control underground, might as well just skip the whole space based plan and just put the data underground.

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ozim 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why is it hard requirement?

You can make some part of operations on high orbit that won’t decay as much then more ops on lower orbits that decay faster.

If you put stuff underground it is much harder to communicate.

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grim_io 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And here I thought Musk's fans are all about digging holes in the ground. The flamethrower fumes might have caused temporary amnesia.

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ozim 16 hours ago | parent [-]

To say so I am not a Musk fan - I am sci-fi fan and I make imaginary/silly stuff up on my own.

I also like reading how people argue with not what I wrote but with what they imagined I wrote.

	▲	grim_io 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It was not my intention to single you out, my apologies. There is nothing wrong to imagine anything you like. But if you do it as a CEO, i personally consider that as fraud. Guess I'm weird and old-fashioned like that.