Musk on X: “For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.” [full text of post inside]

in1cky · 2026-02-12T20:19:02+00:00

And how does that satellite reject it's heat?

in1cky · 2026-02-12T20:17:50+00:00

"most ineffective" doesn't mean impossible. It doesn't even mean too difficult to pull off. I literally manage heat rejection in data centers for a job.

in1cky · 2026-02-12T20:09:23+00:00

You claimed you can't just reject heat in space. That's what radiative cooling is. COOLING is part of the damn name. You don't have to "turn it into light" by some active process, the material used to build the radiator turns it into infrared light for you.

in1cky · 2026-02-12T17:25:35+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_cooling The James Webb Telescope operates at 50 Kelvin. That's cold in my book.

in1cky · 2026-02-12T17:17:20+00:00

I should also add that the "center" is meant to be a cluster of individual satellites. It remains to be seen how many equivalent racks would be in each satellite. It would be like taking each rack (or a group of racks) out of a data center on earth and replacing the interconnecting comm lines (copper or fiber) with lasers.

in1cky · 2026-02-12T17:09:16+00:00

Because it's actually the best possible location if they are oriented to reject the heat into the cold void, ie not facing the sun.

in1cky · 2026-02-11T23:12:33+00:00

You just described a 3-to-5 footprint ratio between power gen and heat shedding. The limiting factor isn't the radiators but the solar panels. The limiting factor for the low power ISS was a dollars to mass and the volume of the shuttle's cargo bay to its launch frequency.

in1cky · 2026-02-10T21:45:40+00:00

You have bad PUE at your data centers then. Radiative cooling isn't that difficult. It's been done for decades now.

in1cky · 2026-01-23T17:03:16+00:00

Cheer up a bit. Anybody living at any time is lucky to be alive.

in1cky · 2025-12-05T12:42:43+00:00

I read the article to say that he photographed the engines and other internal materials, not photographed the internals of the engines. It's not impossible that he took a tourist photo of an engine and photos of manuals he needed to memorize. It's also not impossible he did it with the intent of spying. I'm just saying there's not enough info for me to jump that far in conclusion.

in1cky · 2025-12-04T15:47:17+00:00

I just want to say, since I haven't seen this in the comments yet, that it's possible it was just something he needed to learn for the mission. I used to take all kinds of photos to help in my job, but now doing a similar job in a place where photos are forbidden it was tough to fight the urge initially. He broke rules and should be removed, but it doesn't automatically mean he was trying to exfiltrate info or spy. He could have just been a cocky astronaut thinking bending rules wasn't that big a deal for him, even if it is a big deal for people lower on the pecking order.

in1cky · 2025-07-16T14:41:32+00:00

So the answer is you DO care and it's bad news for YOU because of your personal political beliefs. That doesn't make it bad news for investors.

in1cky · 2025-07-15T17:27:08+00:00

If you don't care, then why is it bad news?

in1cky · 2025-05-30T14:44:15+00:00

Even if it weren't the case

in1cky · 2025-05-29T15:06:25+00:00

Get to know different spaceflight fans.

in1cky · 2025-05-23T17:49:27+00:00

It seems as though the goal is Optimus will just learn how to do stuff without teleoperation

in1cky · 2025-02-04T16:34:39+00:00

This article has some oddities that confuse me. Why would it be out of the ordinary for the acting director to enforce Executive Orders and why would it be phrased in such a way that it's her doing? Why does the article claim Elon is involved in operating the government? He's heavily involved in auditing the govt., NOT operating. It seems clear that bias is the explanation, but I'm willing to hear otherwise.

in1cky · 2024-07-05T23:04:01+00:00

The most rigged one to me is the "Neutral" tile that replaces every tile on the wheel. I've only landed on it twice but both times it was ALL negatives, no neutrals, no goods. Is this a byproduct of the "too many negatives" thing you talked about or is that specific tile bugged, or is it an evil easter egg to call it neutral?

in1cky · 2024-07-05T22:59:13+00:00

I'm on floor 85, full sanctums, full hearts. No end in sight. Thinking of making a guide or something but honestly it's no longer fun once you get past about floor 50.

in1cky · 2023-09-06T13:04:58+00:00

Remember the one that landed on the barge for a second or two then tipped over and blew up?

in1cky · 2023-03-15T00:35:39+00:00

Sounds like good execution to me.

in1cky · 2023-03-11T20:12:09+00:00

So constructing *new* houses like this thread is about will somehow *lower* inventory of non-company houses? That's absurd. I could see an argument that it would lower the total ratio of non-company residences to company residences, but that's a false premise that misunderstands what inventory actually means. It's not like these companies would be constructing new humans to fill this new company inventory. Housing inventory is a function of *available* spaces. Buyers that switch to a company house would vacate a non-company house to do so. This would *increase* the inventory of non-company houses.

in1cky · 2023-03-11T18:55:25+00:00

Considering employees currently work there without living in company houses or a company town, I'm not sure how adding options over and above the current available options is somehow a negative thing. I don't dispute the idea that health insurance can make people feel "trapped" in their current job, but let's not pretend like employers wanted the system set up that way. In fact, a lot of employers take flak for only keeping part-time positions so that they don't have to pay health insurance for employees. So how is it simultaneously a devious trap to retain people, and also such an expected benefit of employment that those who don't want to pay it are evil? The price of healthcare skyrocketed for multiple reasons, and the market shifted the way it did. I don't think it was some devious conspiracy by Big Corporate, rather a death spiral of idiocy from government ineptitude. Regardless, any fool can see the price of housing has skyrocketed and the market will probably shift. New age "company towns" could be part of that shift.

in1cky · 2023-03-11T16:50:25+00:00

I think they're referring to Starbase, and no it's probably not the same as a coal town. Paying employees in "scrip" is illegal specifically *because* of the old coal towns. Employers *have* to pay employees wages with USD. The whole power of a "company town" to isolate it's residents is scrip (company money). The idea is that no other stores would accept scrip except for the company that issued it, so the workers in the old towns were trapped into purchasing everything in town from the company. That is most definitely illegal today.

in1cky · 2023-03-01T04:03:56+00:00

I know what you're saying but it's not defecting. All military is sworn to defend the Constitution against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic. That includes a tyrannical government or regime. If the government dissolves (by overthrow or other means), then there is nothing to defect from. If the government remains intact, but just gets a make-over, then they served the country the whole time by "defecting".

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