Thurston Hyde

Read the comments under my original post. You show them houses they can afford and they come up with spurious excuse after spurious excuse why they can't. Good God, these people. No wonder the country is doomed. Hardly anyone under about 40 wants to get off their bums and actually do anything to make their lives better. But they'll moan at pensioners. 🙄

Space doesn't have a meaningful "temperature" because it's a vacuum. Hence why heat in a spacecraft can only escape as infrared radiation. A coolant loop is required to transfer heat efficiently to the radiator. The issue is that it needs at least one pump, and pumps have moving parts which are weak points. If they ever fail, the satellite is literally cooked. This means each data center has a limited lifespan. Starlink satellites only have a design life of five years, and SpaceX has to deorbit one or two of these per day. These don't need fancy thermal management because they're fairly small. An orbital data center will be bigger and consume way more power, at least dozens if not hundreds of kilowatts. The ISS generates and uses ~100 kW and has a thermal control system for this reason. So not only will these be complicated and expensive, unless you can do regular maintenance they will have an even shorter life.

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Footage claimed to show the ejection seat from a downed F-15E Strike Eagle in Iran has been released by Iranian sources. The seat visible in the images appears consistent with the ACES II ejection seat used on the F-15E.

For thousands of years man looked up to the sky and wondered what was up there. Now we know. And it isn't a lot. Or very interesting. You can't blame people for not getting excited about spaceship launches.