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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by ballenf on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:41PM (#25817835)
How much of that is just because it’s not spinning/ no gravity? That plus better shielding should help right?
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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by dodobirdlord on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:23AM (#25819158)
High energy cosmic rays are tough to shield against. On Earth there’s 60 miles of atmosphere, in space you would have to reproduce that with several meters of dense material.
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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by kungito on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:56AM (#25819683)
What if you were orbiting a planet always on the opposite side of where the Sun is?
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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by the8472 on Monday January 18, 2021 @04:36AM (#25819962)
Cosmic rays aren't caused by the sun. If anything the heliosphere shields us from some of them.
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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by TeMPOraL on Monday January 18, 2021 @04:14AM (#25819807)
The view would suck.

You'd have to pack nuclear reactors to provide power (though that's a given for any kind of serious activity in space anyway), and your scientific and operational capabilities would be limited/made difficult by the lack of sunlight.

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