Corolla is supposed to be the cheap one. But this concept looks way too flashy and the prices seem quite "meh" for affordability.

What a missed opportunity.

You can't ask any of those direct questions in natural language. They are either rigid or uninteractive

From who? The crack addicts in space trying to steal copper?

The actual rack part is small, even if the solar panels and radiators are big. If this truly was super dangerous, ISS wouldn't be safe. And it's never hit mission-degrading issues due to micrometeoroids.

The ISS has only existed in times of peace

Intentional Kessler syndrome would be such an escalation that even Starshield would be wiped out then, that's quite low in the "def-cons" ...

In any case, this is mostly for peacetime / civilian usage. Obviously military datacenters are and will be as secure as possible. Remember ARPANET was foundational for the internet.

No western company, no. That's why I can only hope SpaceX can get thru more red tape faster, and future administrations don't try to slow them down.

Even while current administration is kind of positive towards them, they are still even now just having to wait for no good reason for a FAA go-ahead. These kinds of stalls don't really exist in China.

While a bit tin foil hat-y, this is an interesting (conspiracy) theory, even while space datacenters aren't as impractical as some people try to make them to be.

Some people, or physics?

Stefan-Boltzmann law considered conspiracy?

Don't you think it's a _bit_ ignorant thinking the engineers at now several companies known for their genius didn't think of it? There's a meme for this kind of armchair drive-by commenting.

And the preliminary design shapes aren't unknown. They just have huge ass solar panels and radiators. Plenty of space in ... space.

Literally no one is saying it’s impossible. You claimed it’s not impractical, which is totally different. And yes, as of now, and likely for years to come, launching huge ass panels and radiators into space for data centers is going to be economically impractical, as compared with building the same amount of capacity on earth.

And why haven’t these genius engineers delivered on basically any of Musk’s promises on time? Or at all, in many cases?

Some people, claiming to be the authority on laws of physics. While people actually doing this are obviously more credentialed and talented than said internet fools.

It's getting quite tiresome.

This. China's copying SpaceX's homework and the public/private system towards that is operating so efficiently, if SpaceX lets off the gas, US is going to fall behind off the next long term gold rushes like asteroid mining, and said space datacenters.

What did they expect.

Just use the site, people

If the site didn't require login, sure.

Now it'll be "Just don't use the site and encourage anyone else to stay away"

Or just not.

Or, you know, just be a normal reasonable person and just use X.

We got to get rid of this extremist-esque narrative. X is more unbiased than it has ever been, and Community Notes work better than any other platform's nearest attempts.

I can only hope NVIDIA won't send an army of lawyers against this.

Because they get paid and can always wait before banning them without fingers pointing at them too hard.