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XorNottoday at 12:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yes because when your infrastructure is Earth based, your staff is Earth based and your customers are Earth based, your company's legal registration and owner are Earth based, it would be absolutely impossible for a government to enforce any type of jurisdictional control if your datacenters were in space.

And absolutely no one, anywhere, ever, has the capability to damage or destroy a satellite...


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simondotautoday at 12:33 PM

Absolutely no one, anywhere, ever, has the capability to damage or destroy many hundreds of satellites (assuming that SpaceX wouldn't be a willing launch partner).

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LargoLasskhyfvtoday at 12:35 PM

As I understand it the idea is to have many of such sats. Literally clouds of them.

Not necessarily in orbits which are easily reachable for current ASATs, nor 'economical'.

For now...