• JayTreeman@fedia.io
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    29 minutes ago

    I haven’t read the article, but know a little bit. This is a thing only a person that thinks space is magic would think is a good idea. The big reason is heat. More specifically how to get rid of it. Our more realistic and earthbound data centers primarily use electricity to power cooling. How do you get rid of the heat in space? There’s nothing to transfer the heat to.

    • 4am@lemmy.zip
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      14 minutes ago

      Also, power. MFers acting like we got dilithium crystals up in here. And yeah, we probably could do Star Trek style ships if we had a way to make power in space…but we don’t, like, at ALL