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the lag, making orbital computing utterly useless for assisting self-driving cars beyond GPS.

What China is doing with its Three-Body Constellation, and others are trying to do, is process the data generated in space from observation satellites, and only passing down the results. This allows for gathering a lot more data in space, potentially seeing a lot more on the ground. There is no bandwidth issue, as no massive amounts of data have to be sent quick and with high accuracy.
But it doesn't do anything for consumers on the ground wanting their own data processed.
 
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The Great Zaganza said:
the lag, making orbital computing utterly useless for assisting self-driving cars beyond GPS.

What China is doing with its Three-Body Constellation, and others are trying to do, is process the data generated in space from observation satellites, and only passing down the results. This allows for gathering a lot more data in space, potentially seeing a lot more on the ground. There is no bandwidth issue, as no massive amounts of data have to be sent quick and with high accuracy.
But it doesn't do anything for consumers on the ground wanting their own data processed.
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Most consumers don't have a lot of data to be processed. You tell the AI to make a video based on the stills and description you provide. It works on it for a few hours and out pops a 4k video produced from imagery it was trained on.

In the future nobody will have to upload anything because the AI already knows everything anyone would ever want. It knows all your personal data, products you have purchased, what you like and don't like, what all your friends and relatives look like etc. Of course by this time everybody will have a neural link plugged into their brain while they sleep (for 24 hours a day in their pod, with tubes attached at various points to deal with bodily functions).
 
ai training takes massive amounts of data - and constellations will always lag behind terrestrial ones.

the only thing Space has going for it is Solar power. But you can have that on the ground, too.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
the lag, making orbital computing utterly useless for assisting self-driving cars beyond GPS.
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Somebody doesn't have a clue about how autonomous vehicles work.

Hint - GPS is only accurate to a meter or so at best, and the lag is several seconds - useless for driving. That's why a local AI processor is required. Tesla's Hardware 5 (A15) processor in the Cybercab has a 20 millisecond reaction time, about 10 times faster than a human.

So why have Starlink?
- Because people want internet, and when the car is driving by itself there's plenty of incentive to use it.
- To keep map data up to date.
- To do 'over the air' software upgrades.
- For communication between the car and robotaxi base.
- Because ground-based wireless networks are unreliable.
 
Roger Ramjets said:
It's not the nightmare people are making it out to be. SpaceX will start out small and solve the engineering problems as they go. This is real innovation. The people who say it's impossible are like those who said powered flight was impossible just because nobody had developed engines and airframes light enough (and turned out to be so easy that a sheep farmer and a couple of bicycle mechanics did it in their garages).

You assume Musk is a grifter because - like most of us - you have a small mind.
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Did you not read the IPO prospectus?
 
arthwollipot said:
The inefficiency of radiation as heat dissipation as opposed to conduction.
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Heat will be conducted away from the chips by conduction (same as is done in terrestrial data centers) and directed to large radiator. The radiator will have to be very large, but that's just an engineering problem. There's a reason SpaceX is making Starship beyond going to Mars - its much larger payload capacity.
 
Roger Ramjets said:
Heat will be conducted away from the chips by conduction (same as is done in terrestrial data centers) and directed to large radiator. The radiator will have to be very large, but that's just an engineering problem. There's a reason SpaceX is making Starship beyond going to Mars - its much larger payload capacity.
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Getting a sufficiently large radiator would require an awful lot of launches. The cost of the radiator alone would make terrestrial data centres more cost-effective.
 
Roger Ramjets said:
Not entirely true, but probably cheaper to just live with it until the satellite is retired.
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Accumulating micrometeorite strikes which decreases efficiency until the whole thing just shuts down. Or in the case of micrometeorites damaging the radiators, overheats, which could be catastrophically worse.
 
It's a good idea. Yes, it'll be inefficient, extravagantly expensive and essentially useless for any purpose but money laundering outside all earthly jurisdictions, but what it won't have is a captive municipality to mooch power and water off of while pushing the bill to local residents. Whatever they do to solve those issues will have applications here on the ground and for future space endeavors.

Not that Musk actually intends to build this, he's just BSing on Xitter like he always does. It's a shame about his ◊◊◊◊◊◊ up penis, he'd have wrecked less of the western world if he didn't need to compensate for it.
 
arthwollipot said:
Remember, Moore's Law is a functional numerical relationship between the passage of time and the size of transistors. That numerical relationship doesn't apply any more, for various reasons.
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Sure… but it’s not really a “law” despite the name. It’s an extrapolation based on observations over a pretty short time scale.
 
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