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proggyyesterday at 10:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

Has it occurred to anyone that you can put computers underground? In this apocalyptic scenario you are describing, how do you expect the ground based command and control infrastructure to survive? Satellites are 100% reliant on ground based operations. That is a hard requirement. And if you put the command and control underground, might as well just skip the whole space based plan and just put the data underground.


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ozimyesterday at 10:57 PM

Why is it hard requirement?

You can make some part of operations on high orbit that won’t decay as much then more ops on lower orbits that decay faster.

If you put stuff underground it is much harder to communicate.

grim_ioyesterday at 10:35 PM

And here I thought Musk's fans are all about digging holes in the ground. The flamethrower fumes might have caused temporary amnesia.

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