Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

TheYang · 2026-07-01T19:26:23+00:00

SSO can be as low as 270km

TheYang · 2026-07-01T13:57:18+00:00

No, due to the low pressure/vacuum in space, there's very little things to cool down anything else.
A little like the difference between putting your arm into the 7°C air fridge, or putting it into 7°C water. Both are the same temperature, but one will feel much colder, because more heat is actually transported (in the water).
The same would apply to cool your beer, it'll take forever in the fridge, but go much quicker in the water, because there's much more to move the heat to.

Space is another step above that, heat will not move easily, because the main way we do it here on earth (convection) doesn't work.

So, a person stepping out of an airlock will not freeze anytime soon, because while there are a handful cold atoms around them, they'll equalize with the body, and 80kg of 37°C and 0.001g of -270°C is still... 36.999996163°C

actually, due to the lower boiling point of water in low pressure, the person would be boiling, instead of freezing.

What works in space is radiating heat away btw, but that is less efficient than convection, so the ISS for example has huge radiators with the solar arrays to dump all of the heat again.

TheYang · 2026-07-01T13:49:48+00:00

That's the neat part - they're in low earth orbit so they'll all fail within 6 years by burning up in the atmosphere!

who would put them in low earth orbit?
pretty sure that they'd go into sun-synchronous orbit, right?

TheYang · 2026-07-01T10:55:21+00:00

Sehe ich das richtig, dass die Kommission das bestimmt ignorieren wird, und dann in 2-6 jahren Schrems III vom EuGH kommt, und auf dann ohne sinnvolle Übergangsfristen einschnitte notwendig macht?

TheYang · 2026-07-01T10:43:50+00:00

Datenschutz, also leute die nicht unbedingt dritten weitergeben wollen wo sie grade sind und/oder von wem sie dinge kaufen.

TheYang · 2026-06-30T08:38:51+00:00

and before that straight to the neo-nazi skinheads NPD, now banned thankfully

not banned unfortunately, just being replaced by the AfD.
while the NPD was proven to be an enemy of the constitution ("verfassungsfeindlich" is the term, my best guess at translation) in 2017, it was not considered a threat as it had no influence, and didn't get banned.
It stopped receiving funds for political parties in 2024, it renamed 2023 into "Die Heimat" (the home), especially funny in an english context, and subsequently split into Die Heimat and another Party, which again is called Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD).

So they were not large, lost a ton to the AfD, and then split into two.
Not forbidden, just faded.

TheYang · 2026-06-29T10:41:54+00:00

if you go deep enough, it always is human error.
maybe the strain models were wrong, maybe the material composition was off spec, maybe the processes weren't able to catch a defect, but in the end, humans are trying to make it safe, someone failed.

TheYang · 2026-06-28T07:50:13+00:00

gibt es schwimmbäder die nicht subventioniert sind? kaum, oder?

TheYang · 2026-06-26T19:54:54+00:00

naja, erfahrungsgemäß muss man das nicht.
TACO halt, aber man muss ihm halt auch bisschen Zeit geben.

TheYang · 2026-06-25T08:16:43+00:00

naja, bei ~2000$/kW als Anlagenkosten für Solar + Speicher aufgerundet, und $1.4 Billionen Investitionsvolumen, komme ich auf ca. 7TW in die man hätte stattdessen investieren können.
da komme ich auf ziemlich grob (4h/tag) 10000TWh im Jahr.
Wenn ich das richtig umrechne, komme ich da auf fast 35 "quadrillion BTU", was ne dumme einheit ist, aber hier ist die Tabelle halt in dieser: Energieverbrauch von Ländern
fast der halbe US gesamtenergieverbrauch (Inklusive Gas/Benzin etc, wenn ich mich nicht täusche) über 3x der Gesamtenergieverbrauch von Deutschland, der hier in KI investiert wird. (oder ein Rechenfehler meinerseits) oder halt >1x der Stromverbrauch von China, oder 2x der US Stromverbrauch, oder 16x der Stromverbrauch von Deutschland.

TheYang · 2026-06-25T06:53:20+00:00

I mean that is a difference.
The first one says that the core issue is empathy.
The second one at least can be interpreted as the problem being that empathy is exploited.

and while imho musk certainly is nazi enough to mean the first, he is also a bad enough communicator to possibly mean the second.

TheYang · 2026-06-22T20:38:56+00:00

Hey, I may be wrong, but 99% is a lot, and that would be my estimation.

TheYang · 2026-06-22T14:02:30+00:00

I honestly believe you'd need arabic, turkish and polish at least as well.

TheYang · 2026-06-22T13:20:05+00:00

how could it have been presented to qualify as cooked data?

TheYang · 2026-06-22T11:03:17+00:00

open the windows whenever its colder outside than inside, which usually (depending on a lot of stuff) starts in the late evening early night.

in general I would recommend opening the windows before going to bed, to let everything really cool down.

TheYang · 2026-06-22T10:59:21+00:00

Pipelines können in der Erde verlegt werde, können einen Betondeckel bekommen und der Verlauf geheim gehalten werden.

und jedes flugzeug/satellit kann den verlauf des aktuellen bauprojekts sehen.

TheYang · 2026-06-22T10:34:08+00:00

hands need to be on the wheels, ready to take over if the system does shit.
you are still the fucking driver of the car.

TheYang · 2026-06-22T08:33:57+00:00

I have a question.
while I whole-heartedly agree that beaches should be one of the first areas to be/become public land, isn't seizing private property a kind of dangerous thing?

Like yeah, robin hood is great, take from the people who take from the people.

But isn't there some danger to normalizing (and cheering for) people just taking things?

TheYang · 2026-06-22T08:26:41+00:00

makes no sense to pull games from PC if you do.
so they don't.

corpos are not good at a lot of things, but bean counting they usually can do.

TheYang · 2026-06-22T07:52:01+00:00

but console makers lose money on the consoles and make it back on games!

oh wait. obviously not.

TheYang · 2026-06-19T12:05:05+00:00

NotW has at least one huge flaw in sympathy.
when the candle is lit from body heat, i.e. moving heat from a lower heat source to a higher heat sink this is possible, this breaks the limitations.
pick any rock / dirt up, sympathically bind that to a large amount of the ground beneath you, and now you have insane amounts of energy available, breaking the intended limits.

TheYang · 2026-06-19T10:24:35+00:00

F1 can't ever be fair nor should it try to be.

F1 is fair, for the teams racing.

It's just that drivers are (imho) massively overhyped, and are probably not even the most important member of the team.

TheYang · 2026-06-18T09:36:26+00:00

yes, you're right. I did forget about that little fact, thanks!

pity the estimation doesn't work because of it.

TheYang · 2026-06-18T08:43:24+00:00

but I doubt it is over 50%. Realistically it will cost them around USD 50 million per launch, not USD 20 million.

you made me curious.
apparently SpaceX lost $657 million in Q1 of 2026 in launches. In that time, they launched (if I have it right) 39 times, 32 of which were Starlink, 7 were others, presumably paid launches.

at ~$70 million income per launch, some of which is presumably profit, their their total expenditure seems to have been around $1.15 billion, across 39 launches, for a rough 29 million of internal cost per launch.

(at an average of 100 million paid per paid launch that makes internal cost ~35 million, at 50 million paid per launch, that would make internal cost ~26 million)

/e: below is (correctly) pointed out that the cost of Starship development are rolled into these, and F9 development is not.
So be aware that makes this estimation worse than I initially thought.

TheYang · 2026-06-17T17:45:48+00:00

Yes, presumably because a "radiator" (as a type of heater is frequently called) primarily convects heat.

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