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verzali
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- verzaliUhh, here's the problem, I'm sort of stuck travelling into the future at a more or less constant rate. I don't know how to stop doing that...
- Me too and I was wondering what I did!
- The atmosphere is still thick enough to drag you down at 500km. You would last typically last a few years before burning up - the rate of fall is pretty low at 500km. But you do need fuel to do collision avoidance manoeuvres and for attitude control (otherwise your panels will no longer face the Sun and your antennas will not face the ground).
- You are just launching computers, with no propulsion, no attitude control, no solar panels, no radio/laser systems, no radiators. So all of that will take mass away from the computing power. A starlink satellite already weighs about 1000kg, and that really is just the supporting infrastructure you need before you start adding computers...
So yes, 10-100x extra is probably reasonable.
- It could be a hard problem, no?
- Even the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
- That would certainly explain the Loop UI
- What purpose does a bitcoin strategic reserve serve?
- Is this something that you have generated with Grok? Have you spent some time yourself to study the math and physics of vibrations and waves before publishing this?
- But ground support will not be cheap. You need to transfer a huge amount of data, which means you need to run and maintain a network of ground stations. And satellite operations are not as cheap as people like to think either.
- You only need to destroy a few. Then you have a cloud of debris that will take down the rest or at the very least force them to use all their fuel making evasive manoeuvres.
- Starlink solar panels generate at best 200 W/sqm on average. Even with 2.5 million square metres, that is a total of half a gigawatt. And the cost is not to be ignored! Most of the cost of these data centres is in the GPUs themselves, so you need to add that to the cost of building out the constellation. Unless you are arguing that the cost of supporting infrastructure (cooling, power, etc) costs $10bn to support half a gigawatt of GPUs in the typical data centre, then your numbers are simply way off.
- No
- I've been involved in enough futile in-orbit demonstrations to say everything here is absolutely correct.
- Alessandro Volta was from Como, the same place as this. He invented the electric battery.
- I think you are right. Either they have accidentally used the Earth's field somehow, or they are mistaking other effects (drag, perturbations...) for a thrust.
- Maybe its possible to generate motion using the Earth's magnetic field under the right circumstances, though I'm not sure if that's really feasible. Or they might be able to create a very small thrust by emitting photons, but that must be very very small if its actually the case.
- So SpaceX hasn't launched anything that has actually gone to Mars? Weird.
- Nope: >“No, you don’t,” the president replied. “No, you don’t have certain talents and people have to learn.”