Comment by Culonavirus
9 hours ago
The thing is: at the end of the day, SpaceX takes the "impossible" and makes it "late".
People are going to Tory Bruno the space datacenters until one day their Claude agent swarm's gonna run in space and they'll be wondering "how did we get here"?
The thing is: at the end of the day, making absolute statements about the inevitability of future success is a fool’s errand.
Musk has a documented history of failing to deliver on promises, timescale or no. So it’s best to engage in some actual critical thinking about the claims he is making.
napkin math says sq kms of radiators to cool 100MW, it's just patently ridiculous
What if they use heat pumps to raise the temperature? Heat rejection is proportional to T^4.
Or takes the impossible and puts a half baked version of it behind a $99/ month paywall.
Pay wallet? Starlink was never gonna be free.