(((Elon)))’s Mom
Generally SaltyThe answer is an emphatic RIGHT.
Sending a million satellites up to form some kind of data center in orbit is one of the dumbest fucking ideas I have seen in a long time.
There's no cooling in space. A hard vacuum cannot convect nor conduct heat. Heat management in the ISS consumes a ton of power and adds a lot of weight. These satellites will not be any different.
Besides getting them up there, these satellites will return to Earth eventually, burning up and polluting the upper atmosphere with toxic residues. Elmo don't give a fuck.
How do you retrieve a satelllite to upgrade the chips? You don’t. You "de-orbit" it and burn it up, then send up a new one.
Oh, about those chips: the satellites will need heavy shielding to protect them against cosmic radiation. Hardened existing space-chips are based on old tech and not suitable for pointless AI-slop generation. Those $80,000 NVIDIA Black Hole of Money or whatever chips will get destroyed within a day without shielding. Heavy shielded satellites cost a shitton more to launch than svelte ones.
So even if it works, at a trillion+ $, data transmission speeds from fucking orbit are going to be abysmally and uselessly slow.
But yeah go ahead and set another few trillion on fire for a tech that has already consumed that and will never be profitable nor reliable.
Fuck AI and its hucksters. #AI #SpaceX
https://the-14.com/a-million-new-spacex-satellites-will-destroy-the-night-sky-for-everyone-on-earth/
The science: https://umatechnology.org/how-to-cool-things-in-space/
MOAR SCIENCEZ: https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com/satellite-technology/heat-management-in-satellites-techniques-for-dissipating-heat-in-space
