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Neil deGrasse Tyson just revealed that we're building a trap around Earth that could switch off the modern world. And every major country is making it worse on PURPOSE. Right now there is a land grab happening a few hundred miles above your head: SpaceX alone has already put more than 10,000 Starlink satellites into orbit. Around 5,000 objects went up in 2025, and even more are planned this year. By 2040, there could be 100,000 active satellites circling the planet. Every major nation is trying to claim its share and there are almost NO laws governing any of it. Tyson describes the current state of space as a wild west. So why should you care? The hidden trap: In 1978, a NASA scientist named Donald Kessler ran a calculation that space agencies have feared ever since. He found there is a threshold. Once you pack enough satellites into orbit, a single collision stops being an accident and becomes a chain reaction. How it works: Objects in orbit travel at roughly 17,000 miles per hour, which is FASTER than a rifle bullet. At that speed, even a fleck of paint hits with the force of a bullet. So when two satellites collide, they shatter into thousands of pieces, and every single piece becomes a hypersonic bullet of its own. Each of those pieces can strike another satellite, which explodes into thousands more. One collision becomes ten. Ten become a hundred. A hundred become a thousand. Tyson warns that within just a few orbits, this cascade could wipe out close to 100% of the satellites around Earth. Now think about what those satellites run... There is no GPS without them, which means no Google Maps, no ride-sharing, and no navigation. As Tyson put it, there is no Uber without GPS. There is no high-speed internet for ships, planes, remote towns, or entire militaries. There is no reliable weather forecasting and no global financial timing. The invisible backbone of modern life runs through a few thousand machines in orbit, and we are stacking them closer together every year with no traffic rules and no cleanup crew. And it has already begun: Four countries have already blown up their own satellites just to flex their military power. The US, China, Russia, and India have all done it, and every one of those tests scattered thousands of fresh bullets into orbit. Tyson even joked that if aliens ever came to visit, they took one look at the cloud of junk we wrapped around our own planet and decided it was not worth the risk to land. Every player already knows the danger. The problem is that the same logic that fills the sky also traps everyone inside it. Starlink is worth a fortune. Global satellite internet is worth a fortune. Military control of orbit is priceless. So everyone keeps launching, because the first one to stop simply hands the lead to a rival. No country will slow down, because no law forces them to and there is no reward for going first. So we keep running the same experiment on the one thin layer of space that every phone, map, market, and military on Earth depends on. We are simply betting that nobody triggers the first big collision. The scary part is that it only has to happen ONCE. We spent decades dreaming about everything we would build out in space but we may end up locked underneath the garbage we left there instead. This is easily the best interview Steven Bartlett has done in a while.

Neil deGrasse Tyson just revealed that we're building a trap around Earth that could switch off the modern world. And every major country is making it worse on PURPOSE. Right now there is a land grab happening a few hundred miles above your head: SpaceX alone has already put more than 10,000 Starlink satellites into orbit. Around 5,000 objects went up in 2025, and even more are planned this year. By 2040, there could be 100,000 active satellites circling the planet. Every major nation is trying to claim its share and there are almost NO laws governing any of it. Tyson describes the current state of space as a wild west. So why should you care? The hidden trap: In 1978, a NASA scientist named Donald Kessler ran a calculation that space agencies have feared ever since. He found there is a threshold. Once you pack enough satellites into orbit, a single collision stops being an accident and becomes a chain reaction. How it works: Objects in orbit travel at roughly 17,000 miles per hour, which is FASTER than a rifle bullet. At that speed, even a fleck of paint hits with the force of a bullet. So when two satellites collide, they shatter into thousands of pieces, and every single piece becomes a hypersonic bullet of its own. Each of those pieces can strike another satellite, which explodes into thousands more. One collision becomes ten. Ten become a hundred. A hundred become a thousand. Tyson warns that within just a few orbits, this cascade could wipe out close to 100% of the satellites around Earth. Now think about what those satellites run... There is no GPS without them, which means no Google Maps, no ride-sharing, and no navigation. As Tyson put it, there is no Uber without GPS. There is no high-speed internet for ships, planes, remote towns, or entire militaries. There is no reliable weather forecasting and no global financial timing. The invisible backbone of modern life runs through a few thousand machines in orbit, and we are stacking them closer together every year with no traffic rules and no cleanup crew. And it has already begun: Four countries have already blown up their own satellites just to flex their military power. The US, China, Russia, and India have all done it, and every one of those tests scattered thousands of fresh bullets into orbit. Tyson even joked that if aliens ever came to visit, they took one look at the cloud of junk we wrapped around our own planet and decided it was not worth the risk to land. Every player already knows the danger. The problem is that the same logic that fills the sky also traps everyone inside it. Starlink is worth a fortune. Global satellite internet is worth a fortune. Military control of orbit is priceless. So everyone keeps launching, because the first one to stop simply hands the lead to a rival. No country will slow down, because no law forces them to and there is no reward for going first. So we keep running the same experiment on the one thin layer of space that every phone, map, market, and military on Earth depends on. We are simply betting that nobody triggers the first big collision. The scary part is that it only has to happen ONCE. We spent decades dreaming about everything we would build out in space but we may end up locked underneath the garbage we left there instead. This is easily the best interview Steven Bartlett has done in a while.

Ricardo

70,058 views • 2 months ago

Daily reminder that if you google "satellite in space", every picture it shows you is computer-generated. Tens of thousands of them are supposedly up there careening around at an incomprehensible 17,000 MPH (10x the speed of a speeding sniper rifle bullet) in every direction randomly, yet you never see a single one in space walk footage. The astronauts also don't seem too concerned that they or their craft could be instantaneously vaporized at any second by one of these flying machines of death, that are moving so fast the human eye couldn't even see it. Does this make any sense at all to you?

Daily reminder that if you google "satellite in space", every picture it shows you is computer-generated. Tens of thousands of them are supposedly up there careening around at an incomprehensible 17,000 MPH (10x the speed of a speeding sniper rifle bullet) in every direction randomly, yet you never see a single one in space walk footage. The astronauts also don't seem too concerned that they or their craft could be instantaneously vaporized at any second by one of these flying machines of death, that are moving so fast the human eye couldn't even see it. Does this make any sense at all to you?

Ben Wehrman

34,185 views • 5 months ago

🤯 Elon Musk Says Starship Travels From Texas to Australia in Under 40 Minutes “It's like 17,000 miles an hour or 25 times the speed of sound … If you compare it to a bullet … it'll be about 30x faster than a bullet from a handgun … and it's the size of a skyscraper.”

🤯 Elon Musk Says Starship Travels From Texas to Australia in Under 40 Minutes “It's like 17,000 miles an hour or 25 times the speed of sound … If you compare it to a bullet … it'll be about 30x faster than a bullet from a handgun … and it's the size of a skyscraper.”

Chief Nerd

1,507,080 views • 10 months ago

Lots of talk about 100 kW+ satellites. We asked Apex's Ian Cinnamon how hard they are to build in practice. "To give you a sense of how hard it is to manufacture these at scale. The solar panels that you need on a 100 kW satellite platform are about the size of a football field." "So think about having a football field indoors for each satellite. You need to lay out, fold up, put it together, stow it, test it, deploy it." "Doing one of those? Very doable, not that hard." "Doing 10 of them? Hard." "Doing 100 per year, 10,000 per year? Exceedingly difficult."

Lots of talk about 100 kW+ satellites. We asked Apex's Ian Cinnamon how hard they are to build in practice. "To give you a sense of how hard it is to manufacture these at scale. The solar panels that you need on a 100 kW satellite platform are about the size of a football field." "So think about having a football field indoors for each satellite. You need to lay out, fold up, put it together, stow it, test it, deploy it." "Doing one of those? Very doable, not that hard." "Doing 10 of them? Hard." "Doing 100 per year, 10,000 per year? Exceedingly difficult."

Jack Kuhr

45,966 views • 4 months ago

.delian says Varda Space will ultimately build the first industrial city in orbit. He breaks down how they'll get there: "We want to build the first industrial city in low-Earth orbit. But we're taking it one step at a time. Building out the business, getting great unit economics, proving out one use case at a time." "Generation 1 of what we're building is this two-part spacecraft — satellite and pod. The satellite has all the process equipment. The pod just has the finished good. When we're done, the pod survives, but all that process equipment and everything on board burns up." "Generation 2 will be flying in 2029. Think of it as that heat shield material just envelops everything. So now the satellite plus the pod both survive. That'll probably look like a mini space plane." "By the end of the decade, we'll start to invest into fixed pieces of infrastructure in orbit. Early on they'll probably just look like a satellite with a little docking port. Basically the space plane will come with the raw ingredients and it'll dock with that satellite up in orbit, and exchange them for the fabricated goods. But then we'll have like 10 of those satellites. We'll start to stitch them together, which basically looks like a station." "One day there'll be so many of those pieces of equipment on board that we'll be able to economically justify someone with a wrench to go fix some stuff up there. Once we can economically justify one person with a wrench, we can get ten, one hundred, a thousand."

.delian says Varda Space will ultimately build the first industrial city in orbit. He breaks down how they'll get there: "We want to build the first industrial city in low-Earth orbit. But we're taking it one step at a time. Building out the business, getting great unit economics, proving out one use case at a time." "Generation 1 of what we're building is this two-part spacecraft — satellite and pod. The satellite has all the process equipment. The pod just has the finished good. When we're done, the pod survives, but all that process equipment and everything on board burns up." "Generation 2 will be flying in 2029. Think of it as that heat shield material just envelops everything. So now the satellite plus the pod both survive. That'll probably look like a mini space plane." "By the end of the decade, we'll start to invest into fixed pieces of infrastructure in orbit. Early on they'll probably just look like a satellite with a little docking port. Basically the space plane will come with the raw ingredients and it'll dock with that satellite up in orbit, and exchange them for the fabricated goods. But then we'll have like 10 of those satellites. We'll start to stitch them together, which basically looks like a station." "One day there'll be so many of those pieces of equipment on board that we'll be able to economically justify someone with a wrench to go fix some stuff up there. Once we can economically justify one person with a wrench, we can get ten, one hundred, a thousand."

TBPN

25,336 views • 4 months ago

"I grew up in a locality in Ahmedabad, which is called Satellite. It was named there because ISRO was started in Ahmedabad due to Dr. Vikram Sarabhai. And all of the SAR satellites which were built in India, were built from Ahmedabad." Gaurav Seth, CEO & Founder at PierSight, on why he built a satellite company in Ahmedabad, not Bangalore, not Hyderabad. "If you want to start a space company in 2018, you'll have to do a capex of $10 million even to build a 3U satellite. We've raised total of $10 million so far. We've been able to launch an in-orbit demo satellite, build a product drone-based SAR. And also now we'll be able to launch our commercial satellite."

"I grew up in a locality in Ahmedabad, which is called Satellite. It was named there because ISRO was started in Ahmedabad due to Dr. Vikram Sarabhai. And all of the SAR satellites which were built in India, were built from Ahmedabad." Gaurav Seth, CEO & Founder at PierSight, on why he built a satellite company in Ahmedabad, not Bangalore, not Hyderabad. "If you want to start a space company in 2018, you'll have to do a capex of $10 million even to build a 3U satellite. We've raised total of $10 million so far. We've been able to launch an in-orbit demo satellite, build a product drone-based SAR. And also now we'll be able to launch our commercial satellite."

The Offline Network

10,800 views • 5 months ago

a16z's Christian Keil breaks down the state of the satellite internet market - and says there's room for a lot more companies than just Starlink: "It took a lot more than one company to build the first internet. It's going to take a lot more than one company to build the internet from space." "You're going to see a lot more types of satellites out there, a lot more types of services being offered, and we're in the very, very, very beginning stages of that."

a16z's Christian Keil breaks down the state of the satellite internet market - and says there's room for a lot more companies than just Starlink: "It took a lot more than one company to build the first internet. It's going to take a lot more than one company to build the internet from space." "You're going to see a lot more types of satellites out there, a lot more types of services being offered, and we're in the very, very, very beginning stages of that."

TBPN

14,076 views • 7 months ago

SpaceX now has over 10,000 Starlink satellites in orbit (and growing), providing internet data service to every corner of the earth. Even ships at sea or aircraft in the sky can receive high speed internet service. Over 2/3 of the active satellites in orbit are Starlink now. And it won't create any long term trash in orbit. The orbits are so low (480 km to 550 km) that even if SpaceX were to lose control of one, the small satellites will run out of fuel within 5 years. Then they get dragged back into the atmosphere and burn up. Every satellite is in a lane to avoid other Starlink satellites. They all are connected to a collusion avoidance system and can make small course adjustments if needed. Starlink can provide high speed internet anywhere on the planet without having to bury expensive fiber cables underground or undersea. All you need is a small dish which scans the sky for the closest satellite to provide internet connectivity.

SpaceX now has over 10,000 Starlink satellites in orbit (and growing), providing internet data service to every corner of the earth. Even ships at sea or aircraft in the sky can receive high speed internet service. Over 2/3 of the active satellites in orbit are Starlink now. And it won't create any long term trash in orbit. The orbits are so low (480 km to 550 km) that even if SpaceX were to lose control of one, the small satellites will run out of fuel within 5 years. Then they get dragged back into the atmosphere and burn up. Every satellite is in a lane to avoid other Starlink satellites. They all are connected to a collusion avoidance system and can make small course adjustments if needed. Starlink can provide high speed internet anywhere on the planet without having to bury expensive fiber cables underground or undersea. All you need is a small dish which scans the sky for the closest satellite to provide internet connectivity.

Wall Street Mav

815,298 views • 5 months ago

Steve Harvey reveals the $10 to $1,000,000 formula “Stop trying to think of how to be a millionaire, because you know how hard that is. If you could think of a way to be a millionaire, wouldn't you do it by Monday?” “What is it that you do that somebody would be willing to give you $10 for? Because everybody has that” “If you babysit, somebody will give you $10. If you cut hair, somebody will give you $10. If you write papers for people, somebody will give you $10” “Everybody got something they can do for $10” “Go do that and make $10. Now if you make the $10, do it 10 more times. You know what you got, $100” “If you make $100, do it 10 more times, you got $1,000. Now if you make $1,000, do it 10 more times, you now have $10,000” “Whatever you did to make $10,000 is simple. All you've got to do is do it 10 more times. Guess what? You have $100,000” “You ain't got to change nothing. All you got to do is take your $10 idea. Stop trying to think of how to make a million and just figure out how to make $10” “After you make $100,000 you have to hire some people. But whatever you did to make $100,000 do it 10 more times” “I have a surprise for you, you have just made $1 million with a $10 idea. If you do that, anybody can be successful”

Steve Harvey reveals the $10 to $1,000,000 formula “Stop trying to think of how to be a millionaire, because you know how hard that is. If you could think of a way to be a millionaire, wouldn't you do it by Monday?” “What is it that you do that somebody would be willing to give you $10 for? Because everybody has that” “If you babysit, somebody will give you $10. If you cut hair, somebody will give you $10. If you write papers for people, somebody will give you $10” “Everybody got something they can do for $10” “Go do that and make $10. Now if you make the $10, do it 10 more times. You know what you got, $100” “If you make $100, do it 10 more times, you got $1,000. Now if you make $1,000, do it 10 more times, you now have $10,000” “Whatever you did to make $10,000 is simple. All you've got to do is do it 10 more times. Guess what? You have $100,000” “You ain't got to change nothing. All you got to do is take your $10 idea. Stop trying to think of how to make a million and just figure out how to make $10” “After you make $100,000 you have to hire some people. But whatever you did to make $100,000 do it 10 more times” “I have a surprise for you, you have just made $1 million with a $10 idea. If you do that, anybody can be successful”

dank

429,110 views • 3 months ago

There are more than 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth by the end of 2025 already. A space satellite is launched into orbit using a powerful rocket that lifts it through Earth’s atmosphere at speeds over 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h). Once it reaches the right altitude and velocity, the rocket releases the satellite, allowing it to circle Earth due to the balance between gravity pulling it down and its forward speed carrying it around the planet. Satellites are used for communication, GPS, weather tracking, military operations, and scientific research, silently orbiting hundreds or even thousands of miles above us.

There are more than 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth by the end of 2025 already. A space satellite is launched into orbit using a powerful rocket that lifts it through Earth’s atmosphere at speeds over 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h). Once it reaches the right altitude and velocity, the rocket releases the satellite, allowing it to circle Earth due to the balance between gravity pulling it down and its forward speed carrying it around the planet. Satellites are used for communication, GPS, weather tracking, military operations, and scientific research, silently orbiting hundreds or even thousands of miles above us.

Cosmos Archive

20,929 views • 5 months ago

NEWS: Each new Starlink V3 satellite carries six space lasers moving 400 gigabits each The lasers connect the satellites to each other, forming a mesh in orbit that can route your data between almost any two points on Earth without touching the ground. Together they add up to a petabit-scale network, and the paths are redundant. If one link is busy or blocked, traffic reroutes through another satellite. This is why Starlink can work in the middle of an ocean or a desert. Data hops satellite to satellite by laser, then drops down only where it needs to. It is the same laser tech NASA just chose to beam 4K video from its Orion Moon spacecraft. (Source: Starlink, July 17)

NEWS: Each new Starlink V3 satellite carries six space lasers moving 400 gigabits each The lasers connect the satellites to each other, forming a mesh in orbit that can route your data between almost any two points on Earth without touching the ground. Together they add up to a petabit-scale network, and the paths are redundant. If one link is busy or blocked, traffic reroutes through another satellite. This is why Starlink can work in the middle of an ocean or a desert. Data hops satellite to satellite by laser, then drops down only where it needs to. It is the same laser tech NASA just chose to beam 4K video from its Orion Moon spacecraft. (Source: Starlink, July 17)

Muskonomy

14,851 views • 2 months ago

According to NASA, there are "millions" of pieces of debris orbiting around our globe, including over 40,000 manmade satellites, all flying at a mind-boggling 17,000+ MPH (that's 10x the velocity of a speeding sniper rifle bullet) Who is manning the Artemis II Xbox controller to dodge all of these objects careening around at 20x the speed of sound, in all different directions, any one of which would completely decimate the spacecraft and all astronauts inside it? 🤔

According to NASA, there are "millions" of pieces of debris orbiting around our globe, including over 40,000 manmade satellites, all flying at a mind-boggling 17,000+ MPH (that's 10x the velocity of a speeding sniper rifle bullet) Who is manning the Artemis II Xbox controller to dodge all of these objects careening around at 20x the speed of sound, in all different directions, any one of which would completely decimate the spacecraft and all astronauts inside it? 🤔

Ben Wehrman

194,830 views • 5 months ago

Elon Musk explains how Starlink works? "I think there's several 1000 satellites in low Earth orbit, and they're moving around 25 times the speed of sound in these zipping around the Earth, basically. And they're at an altitude of about 550 kilometers, which is called generally low earth orbit, because they're at low Earth orbit. Their latency is low because the distances is not that far, compared to Geo stationary satellite, 36,000 kilometers. So you've got 1000s of satellites providing low latency, high speed internet throughout the world, and they are interconnected as well. So there are laser links between the satellites. So it forms sort of a laser mesh, so that if, let's say if cables are damaged or cut, like fiber cables, the satellites can communicate between each other and provide connectivity. For example, when the Red Sea cables were cut, I think a few months ago, the Starlink satellite network, continued to function."

Elon Musk explains how Starlink works? "I think there's several 1000 satellites in low Earth orbit, and they're moving around 25 times the speed of sound in these zipping around the Earth, basically. And they're at an altitude of about 550 kilometers, which is called generally low earth orbit, because they're at low Earth orbit. Their latency is low because the distances is not that far, compared to Geo stationary satellite, 36,000 kilometers. So you've got 1000s of satellites providing low latency, high speed internet throughout the world, and they are interconnected as well. So there are laser links between the satellites. So it forms sort of a laser mesh, so that if, let's say if cables are damaged or cut, like fiber cables, the satellites can communicate between each other and provide connectivity. For example, when the Red Sea cables were cut, I think a few months ago, the Starlink satellite network, continued to function."

DogeDesigner

536,493 views • 9 months ago

NEW: The All-In Podcast praises Elon Musk and SpaceX for successfully catching the massive Starship booster and projects that Starlink could easily surpass 100 million subscribers. "SpaceX has dramatically reduced the costs per kilogram to launch material into low-earth orbit." "Elon's always said that $1000 a kilogram is too high, and his objective is to get the cost down to $10 a kilogram." "It was critical to be able to reuse that heavy booster, and that's what Elon just demonstrated. So you can actually catch that heavy booster, refuel it, and launch it an hour later." "If you can do that over and over again, you're spending $10 a kilogram to put material into space. You can get fuel into space and then get those Starships to fly off to Mars and deliver all this material, including setting up a base that would allow you to actually make more fuel on Mars." "So it's the beginning of the next series of really important milestones that will hopefully get humanity to Mars. It was so amazing to see it come together. The economics are legit. This is like a 1000x reduction in cost." "Starlink is running like 4 million subs right now at $100 a month." "If we can get satellite to phone and Starlink more broadly available, this could be a 100 million subscriber business."

NEW: The All-In Podcast praises Elon Musk and SpaceX for successfully catching the massive Starship booster and projects that Starlink could easily surpass 100 million subscribers. "SpaceX has dramatically reduced the costs per kilogram to launch material into low-earth orbit." "Elon's always said that $1000 a kilogram is too high, and his objective is to get the cost down to $10 a kilogram." "It was critical to be able to reuse that heavy booster, and that's what Elon just demonstrated. So you can actually catch that heavy booster, refuel it, and launch it an hour later." "If you can do that over and over again, you're spending $10 a kilogram to put material into space. You can get fuel into space and then get those Starships to fly off to Mars and deliver all this material, including setting up a base that would allow you to actually make more fuel on Mars." "So it's the beginning of the next series of really important milestones that will hopefully get humanity to Mars. It was so amazing to see it come together. The economics are legit. This is like a 1000x reduction in cost." "Starlink is running like 4 million subs right now at $100 a month." "If we can get satellite to phone and Starlink more broadly available, this could be a 100 million subscriber business."

KanekoaTheGreat

1,493,087 views • 1 year ago

ELON MUSK: If you want million times more energy, then you must go to space "The way to think of AI in space is that in order to achieve any meaningful percentage of a Kardashev Type 2 civilization, where you are using even a millionth of the sun's energy, you must have solar-powered AI satellites in deep space Once you think in terms of a Kardashev Type 2 civilization, which is 'what percentage of the sun's energy are you turning into useful work,' then it becomes obvious that space is overwhelmingly what matters Earth only receives roughly one two-billionth of the sun's energy. So, if you want to have something that is, say, a million times more energy than Earth could possibly produce, you must go into space. And so, it’s kind of handy to have a space company, I guess"

ELON MUSK: If you want million times more energy, then you must go to space "The way to think of AI in space is that in order to achieve any meaningful percentage of a Kardashev Type 2 civilization, where you are using even a millionth of the sun's energy, you must have solar-powered AI satellites in deep space Once you think in terms of a Kardashev Type 2 civilization, which is 'what percentage of the sun's energy are you turning into useful work,' then it becomes obvious that space is overwhelmingly what matters Earth only receives roughly one two-billionth of the sun's energy. So, if you want to have something that is, say, a million times more energy than Earth could possibly produce, you must go into space. And so, it’s kind of handy to have a space company, I guess"

X Freeze

84,037 views • 10 months ago

A group of orcas was captured on camera engaging in what scientists call "ram-to-fragment" behavior. One whale holds a large sunfish and lets go just before another rams it at high speed, pulverizing the fish into thousands of pieces. In a new study, scientists say the behavior could be a clever way to feed the young, a form of play, or a combination of both. Read more:

A group of orcas was captured on camera engaging in what scientists call "ram-to-fragment" behavior. One whale holds a large sunfish and lets go just before another rams it at high speed, pulverizing the fish into thousands of pieces. In a new study, scientists say the behavior could be a clever way to feed the young, a form of play, or a combination of both. Read more:

ABC News

16,936,610 views • 1 month ago

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Cowboy Space Corp. (fka Aetherflux) raises $275M From founder Baiju Bhatt (prev co-founder of Robinhood): "Our mission is to power humanity from the high frontier." "The concept is about building data centers in space. You can use the stage mass, the actual structure of the upper stage of the rocket to do the job of data centers in space." "You can reuse that mass and volume for the radiator, where our concept calls for actually deploying out the fairing of the rocket as a big radiator." "By going with one monolithic satellite, which is the upper stage of the rocket, you get more GPUs that are interconnected." "So rather than distributing it out over a bunch of smaller satellites, the simplest way to kind of think about that is if you had two racks of GPU servers, one was in this building and one was in that building across the street, that strictly worse than them being in the same building." @emmysteuer

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Cowboy Space Corp. (fka Aetherflux) raises $275M From founder Baiju Bhatt (prev co-founder of Robinhood): "Our mission is to power humanity from the high frontier." "The concept is about building data centers in space. You can use the stage mass, the actual structure of the upper stage of the rocket to do the job of data centers in space." "You can reuse that mass and volume for the radiator, where our concept calls for actually deploying out the fairing of the rocket as a big radiator." "By going with one monolithic satellite, which is the upper stage of the rocket, you get more GPUs that are interconnected." "So rather than distributing it out over a bunch of smaller satellites, the simplest way to kind of think about that is if you had two racks of GPU servers, one was in this building and one was in that building across the street, that strictly worse than them being in the same building." @emmysteuer

MTS

19,702 views • 4 months ago