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Re:Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and... by Izmaki on Saturday May 30, 2026 @06:25AM (#48334674)
This sounds amazing until something needs replacement. Until data centers on earth has a 99.99% (or higher) level of autonomous operation with very minimal requirements to maintenance and part replacements, they're not sending anything into orbit...
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Re:Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and... by raincole on Saturday May 30, 2026 @06:29AM (#48334693)
It sounds amazing for 14yo boys who are not specifically into hard sci-fi.
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Re:Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and... by sebzim4500 on Saturday May 30, 2026 @07:08AM (#48334952)
I guess we'll see, because most 14 year olds don't have a lot of money to put into SpaceX.
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Re:Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and... by vkou on Saturday May 30, 2026 @09:15AM (#48335823)
'Stock goes up so we buy it' has sufficient explanatory power to resolve this conundrum.
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Re:Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and... by eigenspace on Saturday May 30, 2026 @06:27AM (#48334685)
I also sounds amazing until you remember how hard it is to cool something when your only option is radiative cooling.
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Re:Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and... by Drakim on Saturday May 30, 2026 @06:50AM (#48334838)
You could also transfer the heat to tungsten rods and drop them on rivaling earth-bound data centers.
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Re:Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and... by kergonath on Saturday May 30, 2026 @07:06AM (#48334937)
Why tungsten? In terms of thermal conductivity, It’s way worse than silver and copper and on par with good aluminium alloys. Those are cheaper and much lighter (so again much cheaper to put into orbit).
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Re:Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and... by eigenspace on Saturday May 30, 2026 @07:18AM (#48335027)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment

The idea is to use tungsten because of the high melting point and hardness so that it survives re-entry in order to best strike the rival datacentre.

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Re:Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and... by kergonath on Saturday May 30, 2026 @07:10PM (#48341483)
This has zero advantage over drones or ICBMs. It’s a joke, a Cold War fever dream.
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Re:Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and... by eigenspace on Sunday May 31, 2026 @05:02AM (#48344124)
It was a joke, but now it's a totally serious proposal because it can help with heat dissipation in orbital datacenters. Very serious. No joking here.
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Re:Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and... by kortilla on Saturday May 30, 2026 @07:57AM (#48335249)
Starlink already operates this way. You don’t replace parts, you launch new sats.
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