Comment by consumer451
11 hours ago
Ha, I figured that might be the video prior to clicking it. I am a long time fan.
Agreed, when I wrote "just unplug it," this counterargument was present in my mind, but nobody likes a wall of text.
However, my original point was that a distributed solar powered orbital inference platform is even worse! Think about how hard it would be to practically take out Starlink... it's really hard.
Now.. >1M nodes of a neural net in the sky? Why would someone who lives as a god, the richest man in the world, the only person capable of doing this thanks to his control of SpaceX... do the literal worst thing possible?
That'd easily take a few LEO detonated fragmentation bombs to trigger a cascading LEO shrapnel field.
It's a lot harder than taking out some terrestrial power lines.
Sure, it'd take obital launch capabilities to lift ... how many bags of metal scrap and explosives?
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