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Fogesttoday at 1:49 AM1 replyview on HN

Low orbit satellites providing internet across the world also weren't a thing... until they were.


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decimalenoughtoday at 1:55 AM

The biggest problem with satellite internet was the costs involved, which SpaceX has pretty much solved.

Datacenters in space, on the other hand, are a terrible idea because of the laws of physics, which will not get "solved" anytime soon. But don't take it from me, listen to this guy with a PhD in space electronics who worked at NASA and Google:

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horri...

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