It sounds amazing for 14yo boys who are not specifically into hard sci-fi.
replyI guess we'll see, because most 14 year olds don't have a lot of money to put into SpaceX.
reply'Stock goes up so we buy it' has sufficient explanatory power to resolve this conundrum.
replyI also sounds amazing until you remember how hard it is to cool something when your only option is radiative cooling.
replyYou could also transfer the heat to tungsten rods and drop them on rivaling earth-bound data centers.
replyWhy tungsten? In terms of thermal conductivity, It’s way worse than silver and copper and on par with good aluminium alloys. Those are cheaper and much lighter (so again much cheaper to put into orbit).
replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
replyThe idea is to use tungsten because of the high melting point and hardness so that it survives re-entry in order to best strike the rival datacentre.
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replyStarlink already operates this way. You don’t replace parts, you launch new sats.
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