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IT person sighs heavily, clamping down their helmet as they board the Dragon capsule for the weekly turning it off and on again.
by Arrath 6y ago
IT person sighs heavily, clamping down their helmet as they board the Dragon capsule for the weekly turning it off and on again.
- KineticLensman 6y agoSupposedly, in the 1940s, when Arthur C Clarke (now mainly known as an SF author) proposed the idea of geostationary satellites [0] as extra-terrestrial radio relays, he believed that they would have to be manned space-stations because of the need to keep changing the valves that had blown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#Geostationary_communications_satellite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#Geostationary...
- 908B64B197 6y agoIf GEO becomes crowded enough, it's not possible to just send more hardware and park the defective one somewhere else and launch costs keep going down I wonder if we'll see more human serviceable hardware.
- tengbretson 6y agoWe just need a Terraform provider that maps provisioning to launching a Falcon-9, and deprovisioning to firing a photon torpedo at the satellite.