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Sure -- but only in order to use it all up for mining Bitcoin. It hasn't exactly led to a glut of GPUs, has it? Here, a single computer + transmitter would be
by CRConrad 5y ago
Sure -- but only in order to use it all up for mining Bitcoin. It hasn't exactly led to a glut of GPUs, has it?
Here, a single computer + transmitter would be a tiny fraction of the cost or a space probe that you're sending up anyway.
- tshaddox 5y agoIn that case it wouldn’t likely lead to affordable/scalable space travel.
- CRConrad 5y agoNo, and AFAICS that was never part of the proposal. Stross is talking about a dozen or two unmanned research probes, like Voyager or Viking, which is the sort of spacefaring we've had since the glory days of the Apollo project ended; he never claimed it would make Star Wars true, IIRC. Just get one extra use case out of the tiny bit of space activity we do have. Or did I miss something; do I have to re-read it?