lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agoDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ieexternal-linkmessage-square134fedilinkarrow-up1361arrow-down15cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1356arrow-down1external-linkDatacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.taranis.ielemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square134fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
minus-squareXLE@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·5 hours agoAnd you can only build so many of those radiator panels before you start running into congestion problems. You don’t want them radiating onto each other.
minus-squareDevial@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 hours agoAnd those radiator panels are heavy and big, therefore enormously expensive to launch, and vulnerable to micro meteorites and other orbital debris.
And you can only build so many of those radiator panels before you start running into congestion problems. You don’t want them radiating onto each other.
And those radiator panels are heavy and big, therefore enormously expensive to launch, and vulnerable to micro meteorites and other orbital debris.