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spandrew • today at 8:17 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

There were a lot of YouTube science-fluencers talking about how dumb this idea was. Google themselves called it a Moonshot (har har).

Curious to see if the experiment changes our understanding of space radiators at a certain scale for non-space exploration purposes.


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tpetry • today at 8:24 PM

Its running for 15 minutes and then must shut down for a long time to cool down. Thats exactly why those "science-fluencers" said its a dumb idea. This is far away from proving that its a viable idea.

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sdcfgy • today at 8:22 PM

I suspect it’ll go in the trash like their previous experimental infrastructure ideas did.

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lubujackson • today at 8:27 PM

Just call it SkyNet and lean into the evil.

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trhway • today at 8:29 PM

It is 700w of heat radiating by 1m2 at 70C ( ie one GPU can sit on such a radiator) What is not to work ok here?

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