One man able to put a data center worth of mass in orbit is one man able to crash a datacenter worth of mass into Earth anywhere he wants.

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recursive 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Not a given. Re enter the atmosphere. Sure. Avoid vaporization? Much harder problem.

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reppap 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think it's actually the other way around, satellites need to be specifically designed to burn up fast in the atmosphere. See for example the warnings about space debris from Chinese satellites not designed with this in mind.

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debatem1 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There is some evidence to suggest that spacex knows how to reenter an object without burning it up.

	▲	TheOtherHobbes 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The engineering overlap between between a small object designed for reentry and a flying (crashing...) warehouse is not a circle. Once upon a time there was a bonkers "rods from god" mass bomb idea, but that didn't work either.
	▲	duskwuff 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sometimes without even meaning to: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/spacex-cbc-debris-s...