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Comment by fred_is_fred

13 hours ago

Being under the ocean in a metal box you don't get too many micro-meteors or cosmic rays though.

...and costs pennies compared to putting anything up there, so it can even enjoy those cosmic goodies.

Just like you don’t get much water in space.

  • My understanding was that access to very large body of cold water was a core feature for the project. The water was to be used for cooling relatively efficiently or cheaply.

    • My point was that they are both quite hostile environments for different reasons. In the same way space has abundant power supply, subsea has an abundant heat sink.