She is as hot as the sun, I'm gonna melt if I get too close to her.

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already ahead of you: ET, HESM, SUN, CJ.TO, SRR.V

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If you're feeling down today, at least you didn't spend $5,000 on a bleacher seat in the sun to watch one of the most boring games in the history of football

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SPY 700 is like flying into the sun.... Sheesh. Let it happen FFS...

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75 today. Get some sun boys

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They flew too close to the sun.

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Anyone who says Pluto isn’t a planet doesn’t deserve to be listened to. Arbitrary gatekeeping for pedantic reasoning on a poorly defined term to score fake internet points isn’t worth the listen. Pluto is important because people suddenly figured out there were things out there that were much further and pushed technology and science forward. Its story is a piece of history, not science. There’s no definition scientifically that defines a planet; if you moved any planet close to the sun it would be destroyed, Jupiter included. That argument of his he often uses is stupid. Might as well talk about what is a moon, when we now know some planets exchange moons. Our human Earth centric understanding made sense of our moon, but we don’t apply that language to all moons.

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didn’t this already happen in the 80s? michael crichton wrote a book about it called rising sun. everyone was legitimately afraid of Japan’s rising economic capacity, what with their casio watches and microchips, so they cast japan as a rising economic threat to the US and promptly did surprise pikachu face when all the economic booms of the 80s led to (in part) a massive cult takeover. All the action climaxed in the 1995 metro sarin gas terrorist attacks, and the corruption trials are still ongoing.

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You missed a /s It would actually be worse. The "dark" side of the moon is simply the side that doesn't face earth. It still has 24 hour days, and you can't exactly keep your radiators out of the sun then. Edit: the moon has month-long days, obviously.

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> Quick search shows solar cells in space achieve about 30-40% efficiency compared to 20% for terrestrial That clearly doesn't account for either lack of atmosphere, or the fact that the panel can face the sun 24/7. > solar cells for space use are orders of magnitude more expensive than terrestrial cells ?? false. They literally need less materials. Don't need casing or glass. Easier to produce. See my other comments. You can fit somewhere between 30-60 racks in a Starship, even with the solar panels and radiators included. > you're outlining completely disposable data center sats Yes. That is 100% true. They will be disposable. But think about the fact that GPUs effectively are fully depreciated after 3-4 years anyway by accounting standards. > expensive supply chains What is an expensive and bottlenecked supply chain is energy generation on the ground. It's not just expensive on the ground with energy costing 10-20x more, needing giant batteries, more transformers, being a drain on local municipalities, land rights, acquiring and building the buildings, cooling, etc - but the main #1 problem is that the supply chain on the ground **cannot** scale at the pace AI data centers will. Period. Unless we cut the regulations in half overnight for nuclear power, and overnight dedicated hundreds of billions of dollars to increasing the grid by 50% - not happening. Building transformers is a big bottleneck right now. So are batteries, which are needed for large data centers to smooth out usage. Of course space has issues and drawbacks, but it beats out doing it on the ground long term. Long term being 3-5 years out. If you are a city/county - are you going to let a data center be built near you? Create a few jobs temporarily, just to have your electricity rates go up 30-50%? No you won't. You'll either tell the AI company to fuck off, or force them to cover the increase price in electricity. Building on the ground is going to get worse and worse. Acquiring land and building the infastructure needed for data centers will be the bottleneck. Acquiring GPUs won't be the hard part - using them effectively will.

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