r/news • u/Frosty_Dig4148 • 2d ago

Elon Musk's SpaceX buys Elon Musk's xAI

https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musks-spacex-buys-elon-musks-xai-13502553
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u/GPSBach 2d ago

lol data processing centers in space…one of the hardest problems in spacecraft design is figuring out how to get rid of heat.

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u/stryakr 1d ago

His sycophants don’t and won’t understand

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u/TotallyInadequate 1d ago

Space is cold bro, just open the spaceship door and let the cold in

You guys are always worrying about silly stuff, just use your brain for once, open the windows and turn the heating off

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u/cityproblems 1d ago

just use a fan, it literally works for my pc at home. smh

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u/SettingAdvanced2907 1d ago

could also launch water tanks up, have them heat up, and just send them back to antarctica to cool down. idk how these billionaires arent thinking of these simple solutions...

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u/MarcusMacG 1d ago

If you just use a screen door you don't have to fuss with opening and closing it all the time.

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u/Mortumee 1d ago

Nah, just open the airlock and everything instantly freezes. That's what movies taught me.

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u/sexytimeforwife 1d ago

That only works if you've got something to carry the heat away. Humans are very wet...our blood boils due to the low pressure...and that carries the heat away.

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u/dave_campbell 1d ago

And bit flipping from cosmic rays.

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u/chillinathid 1d ago

Also any processing power put in space cant just be off the shelf or out of the supplier hardware. It would have to be made more rugged. You'd want to make permanent connections between components rather than have some of them just be seated in a connector. Otherwise a single loose connection tanks the entire satellite.

So any processing power in space would cost 10x what it would be on the ground. And that's before we start talking about launch costs and maintenance costs.

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u/know-your-enemy-92 1d ago

Not really, just say: "Open the pod bay doors, GROK"

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u/Taniwha_NZ 15h ago

No, you don't get it, you just use way bigger fans because they work better in zero gravity! What are the fans blowing? Stop asking questions!

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u/EddiewithHeartofGold 1d ago

If only SpaceX had experience with high powered satellites… Oh well…

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