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[Berger] Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by threelonmusketeers to c/spaceflight

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[–] threelonmusketeers 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I, too, am very curious how they plan to dissipate the heat...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

High radiation, can’t dissipate heat, not instantly serviceable. I struggle to think of a worse application for a space station.

Well maybe a convenience store.

[–] taladar 3 points 2 weeks ago

An outdoor swimming pool?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Escape Room.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Open a window

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 1 week ago

No air in space :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe they could heat some water with it and spin some things .. or a giant thermocouple?

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You'd need to keep one side of the thermocouple cold in order for it to work, and now we're back to the problem of dissipating heat...

If you boil water, now you have steam that you either need to vent overboard (limiting the lifetime of the system), or recondense, necessitating the dissipation of heat...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

These are great points, I guess the could paint the backside black and make sure it never points at the sun, probably not going to cut it for 20 to 100kw per rack, maybe they could build this monstrosity on the moon and then try and use the mass as a sink. Comms over those distances doesn't really allow high capacity though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Setting aside the environments arguments, I'll hold out hope that he's wrong and none of the ML companies will ever be able to fund something like that.

Also, what a weird launch company to buy if that's your goal. I thought Relativity was going to be the odd one out without enough differentiation and wasn't long for this world. The data center rationale makes me question that decision even more. I'm not praying for their downfall or anything, I just don't get it.