Just because you don't understand how something can work doesn't make it ludicrous. People like you are hell bent on destroying what's left of the Earth by turning it into a computer. If we left progress to those without an imagination, we wouldn't even have had a working calculator.
But they travel at 8 km/s so actually that cancels benefits? EDIT: checked, not enough to cancel them completely.
I wonder I'd that's the math for the ludicrous space data center ideas "floating" around...
Just because you don't understand how something can work doesn't make it ludicrous. People like you are hell bent on destroying what's left of the Earth by turning it into a computer. If we left progress to those without an imagination, we wouldn't even have had a working calculator.