▲ 107 ▼ An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit (arstechnica.com) submitted 1 year ago by Apparatus@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world 75 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (6 children) Free advice: The economics don't work out. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 11 points 1 year ago (5 children) We just need to invent space construction, cheap fusion power, autonomous robotics, improve AI and set up astroid mining first, then it'll be a snap. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) Honestly, it's hard to figure out what the first step in that chain is. If you want to start up industry in space, great, there are lot of potential benefits to that. But where do you start? Within the next 50 years I do expect a broad sector of space industry to emerge, but I really can't predict what the first opportunities might be. Still, we can poke fun at it all we want right now, but I suspect a great many people will be working in space 50 years from now. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Womble@piefed.world 1 point 1 year ago Mining raw resources that are more easily availabe on asteroids than on earth seems like the most likely candidate. There are metalic asteroids that have significant quantities of valuable metals like gold, titanium, iridium etc. permalink fedilink source parent [–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago Gotta get the MIC on board if you want that sweet sweet imperial paper. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago Honestly, i would count that as a win, since we have foresseable global ressource shortages anyway, but not large enough to get that started (more likely wars instead). permalink fedilink source parent [–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago and figure out cooling without having to constantly be resupplying them with water, of course. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 11 points 1 year ago (5 children) We just need to invent space construction, cheap fusion power, autonomous robotics, improve AI and set up astroid mining first, then it'll be a snap. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) Honestly, it's hard to figure out what the first step in that chain is. If you want to start up industry in space, great, there are lot of potential benefits to that. But where do you start? Within the next 50 years I do expect a broad sector of space industry to emerge, but I really can't predict what the first opportunities might be. Still, we can poke fun at it all we want right now, but I suspect a great many people will be working in space 50 years from now. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Womble@piefed.world 1 point 1 year ago Mining raw resources that are more easily availabe on asteroids than on earth seems like the most likely candidate. There are metalic asteroids that have significant quantities of valuable metals like gold, titanium, iridium etc. permalink fedilink source parent [–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago Gotta get the MIC on board if you want that sweet sweet imperial paper. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago Honestly, i would count that as a win, since we have foresseable global ressource shortages anyway, but not large enough to get that started (more likely wars instead). permalink fedilink source parent [–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago and figure out cooling without having to constantly be resupplying them with water, of course. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) Honestly, it's hard to figure out what the first step in that chain is. If you want to start up industry in space, great, there are lot of potential benefits to that. But where do you start? Within the next 50 years I do expect a broad sector of space industry to emerge, but I really can't predict what the first opportunities might be. Still, we can poke fun at it all we want right now, but I suspect a great many people will be working in space 50 years from now. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Womble@piefed.world 1 point 1 year ago Mining raw resources that are more easily availabe on asteroids than on earth seems like the most likely candidate. There are metalic asteroids that have significant quantities of valuable metals like gold, titanium, iridium etc. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Womble@piefed.world 1 point 1 year ago Mining raw resources that are more easily availabe on asteroids than on earth seems like the most likely candidate. There are metalic asteroids that have significant quantities of valuable metals like gold, titanium, iridium etc. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 year ago Gotta get the MIC on board if you want that sweet sweet imperial paper. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago Honestly, i would count that as a win, since we have foresseable global ressource shortages anyway, but not large enough to get that started (more likely wars instead). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago and figure out cooling without having to constantly be resupplying them with water, of course. permalink fedilink source parent