| ▲ | mzajc a day ago | |||||||
> This is one of the easiest problems to solve. /../ All you need is a cheap way to launch mass to orbit. So... not easy? I don't suppose we're at a point where you could reasonably send a large-enough radiator for a multi-gigawatt cluster into space? | ||||||||
| ▲ | m4rtink a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Not only that - it would be totally insane to launch something heavy & at the same time fragile from earth (under a lot of vibrations & heavy g-loading). This is all a weird speedrun or race. If something we should be working on setting up resource mining from the Moon & asteroids, materials processing on the Lunar surface & in orbit, simple manufacturing in space, etc. Instead some people think we can jump straight to a computronium Dyson swarm. :P | ||||||||
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| ▲ | GMoromisato a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Now you've moved the goal posts. It's no longer "you can't cool stuff in space"; now it's "we can't launch a 10-gW compute cluster by the end of the year." You don't need to send a multi-gigawatt satellite to space. You just need to launch a few thousand 250 kW satellites. That's not against the laws of physics. | ||||||||