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Sure space is cool (or maybe not, but don't want to upset the HN consensus), but this seems like a total gimmick and waste of money, time, and PR.
by Cheer2171 3y ago
Sure space is cool (or maybe not, but don't want to upset the HN consensus), but this seems like a total gimmick and waste of money, time, and PR.
- colesantiago 3y agoExcept it's true. I don't see a use case for this other than speculation. I would even go as far to say that this 'side project' was done to try and pump the price of filecoin so that people can take profit off of it.
- diggan 3y ago> I don't see a use case for this other than speculation. The other use cases are hinted to in the name of the project...
- extraduder_ire 3y agoBased on a skim of the article; they uploaded, ran, and tested their code on a cubesat running "Lockheed Martin’s SmartSat technology". So, it wasn't that expensive. My initial thought was cubesats are cheap anyway, but they don't seem to have even launched one themselves. Gimmick, sure. but it's an important milestone and costs less than a series of TV ads.
- RestlessMind 3y agoAnd I thought I was reading Hacker news, not "only viable businesses" news. Sigh...
- rakoo 3y ago> waste of money, time, and PR That's exactly what cryptomoney has been about for years now, so it fits right in.