Post by @PeterLG@theblower.au

2026-02-10 12:38 UTC

@ERROR_WTF@chaos.social There's no such thing as a small data centre, and the moon is a lot further away than Geosynchronous Earth Orbit. There's also the problem of access: the moon isn't visible in the sky over one part of the Earth (such as the USA) all of the time, so that means multiple ground stations, which means connected infrastructure — which is vulnerable. Another consideration: after our nuclear war bumps us back a few thousand years, how many millennia will it take for us to get access to that data again? And will it even be understandable to future humankind? All of these considerations are reasons to become a multiple-planet species sooner rather than later. Stuck on one planet (that we really don't seem to appreciate) means one idiot with the nuclear codes could undo everything. Depressing. @jodmentum@apobangpo.space @sundogplanets@mastodon.social

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@ERROR_WTF@chaos.social 2026-02-10 12:58

@PeterLG@theblower.au @jodmentum@apobangpo.space @sundogplanets@mastodon.social ok then everything that does not fit into the ISS makes no sense. OK, good argument. More than a small Homeserver is then not possible. I maybe confused the word Datacenter. A real center, you are correct. A small Home Server on the ISS, or things like ESHail2, but I think is possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Es%27hail_2

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@ERROR_WTF@chaos.social 2026-02-10 16:28

@PeterLG@theblower.au @jodmentum@apobangpo.space @sundogplanets@mastodon.social By the way... The dream to leave our solarsystem to live on another planet also is a missleading ilusion. The only way is by frozen gene material and AI Robots who clone and raise the brought species to the new planet. Alot of people think we ever would make it to leave our solar system, wich is not possible. We only can leave it dead or as genetic material only. An Idea of a blackhole as way to reach some speads is an ilusion.

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@ticho@mas.to 2026-02-13 12:22

@PeterLG@theblower.au @ERROR_WTF@chaos.social @jodmentum@apobangpo.space @sundogplanets@mastodon.social The moon datacenters would have all the same problems as datacenters in orbit, plus the moon dust, which is extremely abrasive and gets everywhere. Plus the temperature difference between lunar day and lunar night, which is almost 300°C, and all the material contraction and expansion that causes. Datacenters in orbit would at least spend all their time in sunlight (for the solar power to work).

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