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.

Gotta get the MIC on board if you want that sweet sweet imperial paper.

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).

and figure out cooling without having to constantly be resupplying them with water, of course.

They could build them so that they stay in perpetual dawn or dusk. One edge with the solar panels in the su, the other edge with the cooling fins in the night’s cool breeze.

Oh! Oh! Attach it to a meteorite! Almost infinite heatsink in space!

Nobody thinks they're incapable of working this out; we think theyre deliberately advertising something dumb that lay people won't necessarily understand is dumb. Replying that they have smart engineers is stupid because no-one denied it - we just don't think they used those engineers to come up with the idea.

yes but they're not trying to dissipate megawatts usually

I'll do it right here on earth for only 75% of the cost. Think of how much you'll save versus mars.

Back when the capacitor plague hit I had to manage locating & replacing over 500 motherboards in the datacenter of my then-employer. Imagine if a hardware glitch like that happened in one of these.

If they can turn it into light why not turn it into energy to be used?

Doesn’t that already happen with infrared radiation?

That's already how they do it. They pass heat onto radiators which radiate away the excess heat in infrared. It should be noted however that this is far less efficient than it is in an atmosphere.

https://archive.ph/PWEh3

What do you want?

Realistic, sustainable progress instead of endless, phony, destructive grifts.

Kinda obvious.