{"id":23065,"date":"2016-09-30T19:49:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Very-nearly-mentioned-in-comment-9-but-not-quite-orbital-datacentres"},"modified":"2016-09-30T19:49:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:49:29","slug":"very-nearly-mentioned-in-comment-9-but-not-quite-orbital-datacentres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/09\/30\/very-nearly-mentioned-in-comment-9-but-not-quite-orbital-datacentres\/","title":{"rendered":"Very nearly mentioned in comment #9, but not quite: orbital datacentres."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Very nearly mentioned in comment #9, but not quite: orbital datacentres. Lots of free solar power, and you could potentially even manufacture the chips in orbit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There would be some transmission lag because of lightspeed limitations, so you would probably use it for big number-crunching primarily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Winchell Chung<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charles Stross Trigger Warning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speculations of other uses for the monstrous payload capacity of SpaceX&#8217;s proposed booster.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2016\/09\/what-else-can-you-do-with-a-bi.html\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2016\/09\/what-else-can-you-do-with-a-bi.html<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Very nearly mentioned in comment #9, but not quite: orbital datacentres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-23065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sff-thought-starters","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}