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Such an idea never made any real sense, and never will until you can figure out how to move IT infrastructure into a separate dimension where governments have n

Such an idea never made any real sense, and never will until you can figure out how to move IT infrastructure into a separate dimension where governments have no authority. Those servers have to sit somewhere.

wafflemaker 8mo ago
That's the whole plan with the space servers. As soon as we sort out a few problems, we're good to go. Problems: Solar flare & radiation resistance. Heat dissipation. Energy (more effective solar panels, for things as close to sun as we). Partially solved - getting to orbit. And as much as we hate musk, SpaceX might solve it once Starships start flying commercially. If we would separate energy part out and beam it somehow, we could sit in a body's shadow in some Lagrange point equivalent for a given body system and greatly reduce heat dissipation requirements and suspectibility to solar flares.
- Towaway69 8mo ago
  Wait a one minute, who owns those space Servers? The same guy who runs starlink? The one who uses that power to threaten to cut access to those who refuse to do his bidding? Come on, pull the other one, surely it can’t be that something so useful can be used as a tool for Mafia style politics.
  - RobotToaster 8mo ago
    As someone extremely sceptical of musk, I do have some hope that competition between spacex and it's Chinese competitors will make space somewhat accessible to hobbyists.
    - Towaway69 8mo ago
      Hobbyist is another name for consumer, so yes, consumer will have access as long as they pay. Those that can’t pay or are politically undesirables, will be excluded from the global commons of space. My take is that the great dream of unifying humanity through the internet won’t be helped by having it run in space.
- pseudony 8mo ago
  Look at what he does now, you honestly think a person this greedy would ever exercise less than maximum control?
RobotToaster 8mo ago
Doesn't have to be a different dimension, international waters or space would do.
- XorNot 8mo ago
  Both those places are heavily government controlled. In fact international waters if you're not flagged and registered to a specific country, then it's open season for anyone to board and seize you.
  - plagiarist 8mo ago
    I'm so mad that the bitcoin bro cruise ship never set sail. We missed out on some exciting drama.
  - brabel 8mo ago
    Which is something the US has demonstrated so clearly recently.
    - shiroiuma 8mo ago
      This shows that if you want real freedom on the high seas, you need a submarine. Captain Nemo had the right idea.
      - RobotToaster 8mo ago
        Can tap directly into the undersea cables too!
- shiroiuma 8mo ago
  Aside from the counterpoints made by the other responders, this still won't work: you need a physical connection to those servers, and you can't just WiFi to servers thousands of kilometers away. So the servers need to be in another dimension, so you can access them without government interference.
- Semaphor 8mo ago

wafflemaker 8mo ago

That's the whole plan with the space servers. As soon as we sort out a few problems, we're good to go. Problems: Solar flare & radiation resistance. Heat dissipation. Energy (more effective solar panels, for things as close to sun as we). Partially solved - getting to orbit. And as much as we hate musk, SpaceX might solve it once Starships start flying commercially. If we would separate energy part out and beam it somehow, we could sit in a body's shadow in some Lagrange point equivalent for a given body system and greatly reduce heat dissipation requirements and suspectibility to solar flares.

Towaway69 8mo ago
Wait a one minute, who owns those space Servers? The same guy who runs starlink? The one who uses that power to threaten to cut access to those who refuse to do his bidding? Come on, pull the other one, surely it can’t be that something so useful can be used as a tool for Mafia style politics.
- RobotToaster 8mo ago
  As someone extremely sceptical of musk, I do have some hope that competition between spacex and it's Chinese competitors will make space somewhat accessible to hobbyists.
  - Towaway69 8mo ago
    Hobbyist is another name for consumer, so yes, consumer will have access as long as they pay. Those that can’t pay or are politically undesirables, will be excluded from the global commons of space. My take is that the great dream of unifying humanity through the internet won’t be helped by having it run in space.
pseudony 8mo ago
Look at what he does now, you honestly think a person this greedy would ever exercise less than maximum control?

RobotToaster 8mo ago

Doesn't have to be a different dimension, international waters or space would do.

XorNot 8mo ago
Both those places are heavily government controlled. In fact international waters if you're not flagged and registered to a specific country, then it's open season for anyone to board and seize you.
- plagiarist 8mo ago
  I'm so mad that the bitcoin bro cruise ship never set sail. We missed out on some exciting drama.
- brabel 8mo ago
  Which is something the US has demonstrated so clearly recently.
  - shiroiuma 8mo ago
    This shows that if you want real freedom on the high seas, you need a submarine. Captain Nemo had the right idea.
    - RobotToaster 8mo ago
      Can tap directly into the undersea cables too!
shiroiuma 8mo ago
Aside from the counterpoints made by the other responders, this still won't work: you need a physical connection to those servers, and you can't just WiFi to servers thousands of kilometers away. So the servers need to be in another dimension, so you can access them without government interference.
Semaphor 8mo ago