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cyberaxyesterday at 10:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Even assuming that this la-la-land idea has merit, the equilibrium temperature at the Earth's orbit is 250 Kelvin (around -20C). The space around the Earth is _hot_.


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sheepscreekyesterday at 11:20 PM

There are people literally working on accomplishing this. I don’t understand what’s with the arrogance and skepticism.

Edit: Not trying to single out the above commenter, just the general “air” around this in all the comments.

I honestly believed folks on HN are generally more open minded. There’s a trillion dollar merger happening the sole basis of which is the topic of this article. One of those companies put 6-8,000 satellites to space on its own dime.

It’s not a stretch, had they put 5 GPUs in each of those satellites, they would have had a 40,000 GPU datacenter in space.

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