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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Completely different level of difficulty.

And be pedantic self-driving cars are not assault problem. If you try driving a Tesla in autopilot and don't intervene when it makes mistakes you'll be in a wall within about 2 minutes.

Building data centres in space isn't just a technical problem, although it's a major technical problem, it's also an economic problem. Obviously yes it's physically possible to do it but there's no way of building a data centre in space for anything close to the price of just doing it on earth and with no other obvious advantage to it being in space there's no reason to do it.

It's the same reason we don't build a transatlantic railroad tunnel. Obviously it's technically possible it's just a very long tunnel, but it would be hella expensive.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So like I said, the only problem is payload cost……

Free unlimited power is the benefit…..

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Right so go build a space elevator because little old Elon is not going to fix that no matter what he tells you. Even if you could get starship working you need something with 100 times the lift capacity.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Elon Musks companies have done so many things that people like you said he couldn’t do lol. You’re so blinded by irrational hate for someone who doesn’t even know you exist.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

You need to go look up the definition of irrational. He's an awful human only eclipsed by his farther. Also he's not done anything, by all accounts he is more of a pain then anything else.