@sundogplanets

What is SpaceX even actually trying to do? Because putting AI data centers in space obviously isn't it.

Space is a vacuum. There's no heat-absorbing medium (air, water, etc) to use for cooling. Put a data center's worth of AI computers into a large space station, and the whole thing will burn itself to a crisp in short order.

Spacecraft use slow, simple computers for a reason. Several, actually, but one of them is that they don't use much power and don't make much heat.

@sundogplanets

Another of the aforementioned reasons is that there's a lot of bit-flipping cosmic rays out there. Your fancy NVIDIA AI chip isn't gonna work too well with no atmosphere protecting its delicate nanoscopic circuitry from all those high-energy particles.

Tl;dr: physics says no.

So either SpaceX somehow aren't aware of all this, or they've got something else in mind for all those space stations.

@argv_minus_one @sundogplanets they’re using the announcement to raise money/keep ahead of the joneses in the ai space

He’s already backtracked on mars…

@glasspusher

Aw, c'mon, where's the villainy in that? You can't put a bunch of space stations into orbit without hiding giant lasers in them or something.

@sundogplanets

@breitensteinart

Yeah but that's just garden-variety political shenanigans, not villainy. Villainy involves lasers. This plan has no lasers. Needs more lasers.

🤔 I guess the sunlight-reflecting satellites could all focus their sunlight on the same spot. That'd be pretty villainous. There was a Bond villain who did that, in fact.

@glasspusher @sundogplanets

#shitpost

@argv_minus_one @breitensteinart @sundogplanets

Marlene- vis a vis Boring Company distracting from high speed rail?