uriel238 comments on After Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”

Still kinda blows my mind that a ship could accelerate to 1c and still not be able to use cooling fins, aircraft on earth use it as part of the design process

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[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

no worries about the temperature if the ship collides with a spec of spacedust :)

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[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 1 point 14 hours ago* (6 children)

No but hot things will just radiate it away, regardless of vacuum.

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[–] fishy@lemmy.today 4 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Yes, but the infrared radiators for a single megawatt are apx the size of 4 tennis courts. Until there's a space elevator, that's a tremendous amount of resources to get into orbit.

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[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 1 point 8 hours ago (3 children)

Yea, because the only resources in the entire universe are only on our planet. There's absolutely none out there where there's little to no gravity well to fight against right?

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