I thought it was pretty hilarious that they removed "cooling" as a requirement for orbital compute when it's actually way harder to keep something cool on a satellite than on earth. There is no matter floating around in orbit to dump heat into...
Given the fragility of the biosphere and the determination of powerful factions to break it, developing the capability to be a tiny bit existentially independent of it is good.
The scale of this thing seems science fictional.
https://x.com/ChrisJBakke/status/2085519392285380966
That's 15 Pentagons.
Site is legit - https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/?department=terafab&sit...
I wouldn't be surprised if it's another Musk pump-and-dump scheme for SpaceX. We'll be seeing more of these every quarter now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969237
Posted 3 months ago as well, might not be new
> Cost of compute on Earth
> Cost of compute in space I thought it was pretty hilarious that they removed "cooling" as a requirement for orbital compute when it's actually way harder to keep something cool on a satellite than on earth. There is no matter floating around in orbit to dump heat into...For anyone out there who might know:
To achieve a Type II civilization, is a Dyson Swarm currently the best theoretical approach or are there others that are more promising?
I don't have an answer for you, but I have a reminder to all the would-be Dyson Sphere buffs out there:
Dyson Spheres are supposed to be built around a star, not around a planet!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
Dr. Tom Murphy seems highly relevant here. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/the-energy-trap/ also: https://escholarship.org/uc/energy_ambitions
At one point people stop believing in these grandiose marketing stunts. I hope the time is now.
> 10 Million Tons of mass/year launched into orbit
Not something to be proud of...
Given the fragility of the biosphere and the determination of powerful factions to break it, developing the capability to be a tiny bit existentially independent of it is good.
It's no longer Mars, it's the Galaxy. Must be a prank site?
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