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> A former NASA engineer with a PhD in space electronics who later worked at Google for 10 years wrote an article about why datacenters in space are very techni
by onlyrealcuzzo 9mo ago
> A former NASA engineer with a PhD in space electronics who later worked at Google for 10 years wrote an article about why datacenters in space are very technically challenging
It's curious that we live in a world in which I think the majority of people somehow think this ISN'T complicated.
Like, have we long since reached the point where technology is suitably advanced to average people that it seems like magic, where people can almost literally propose companies that just "conjure magic" and the average person thinks that's reasonable?
- jitl 9mo agoyou can’t tell me the microwave isn’t magic. it’s magic.
- jasondrowley 9mo agoI can put things in a box that uses spooky electromagnetic waves to tickle water molecules to the point that they get hot and maybe boil off, given the chance? Sounds like magic to me
- zvqcMMV6Zcr 9mo agoI think it counts as necromancy. After all it brings frozen hamsters back to life.
- solid_fuel 9mo agoIt's just the thought process that comes with shallow understanding: "I can buy a server" "We can put things in space" "What do you mean I can't get a server in space?!"