re: Elon Musk: Space X will put data centers in orbit

Here comes Skynet!

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Seems legit.

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Despite your ignorant sarcasm, I agree with this statement on its face. Extremely legit.

The Gubment has approved 12,000 Starlink satellites. Elon is requesting 42,000 satellites.

The EchoStar $18 Billion purchase for Cell Satellite Service is part of the satellite needs.

If Elon has his way he will be able to use his AI to mine every piece of intellectual property in our country and use it for his benefit. Meanwhile, inventive and industrious folks of the future can live off the crumbs cast aside.

He knows damn well the others will not allow this shite

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Elon Musk is going to be remembered as the greatest African American in history.

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Country, not continent. Don't forget "South"

BEZOS is an antichrist pawn

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The ISS uses ammonia in closed loops that radiate the heat externally. Folks have been working on this for years. Here’s an older article but is a good starting point if you want to dig deeper.

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That article doesn’t discuss the ammonia solution, but I would be curious to learn more about it. With that said, even with liquid cooling, you have to displace the heat from the cooling loop, or your radiator will heat soak. It doesn’t solve the “radiating heat in a vacuum” problem as much as simply moves its location. For a single computing system on the ISS, it’s probably not a huge deal. For a data center? I’m not sure how they manage that.

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The ammonia loops are for the entire ISS. It’s well documented. These systems use the same loops.

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I’m not contradicting you; I’m saying that I can’t fathom how that would be a sufficient solution for a data center.

I think one of the things that separates Elon from so many others is that a lot of people limit their thinking to practicality.

It isn't practical to do x because of y.

Elon doesn't think that way. And it leads to some crazy ideas, that still turn into things we never thought someone would do. And I don't just mean that on the macro side of say the Boring company and boring tunnels underground for super fast transport.

A micro example is when they made Tesla ultrasonic sensors that would work behind the panel of the car simply because Elon didn't like seeing the sensors on the bumpers. It wasn't practical, so no one else did it.

Another one, abandoning the ultrasonic sensors for camera only (Tesla vision). I'm pretty sure that every other manufacturer out there has determined that ultrasonic sensors along with cameras are the best method. But, Tesla decided to move away from them.

Regardless to whether those decisions are good or not is not the point. The point is he thinks differently, which leads to different outcomes. We need that difference in a market place that is ever becoming companies just cloning each other.