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So Musk bought Twitter for 40 billion and then merged it with his experimental AI company that has never made any money and then sold it to the other company he mostly owns (which exists only due to m...
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Why can’t orbiting solar collectors be made to work efficiently? Aren’t satellites already doing solar collection, data processing, storage, and transferring already?

Happy to learn from you technical insights as to why this line of innovative tech is impossible or cost-prohibitive—since your entire critical thinking claim depends on this claim.
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Space is really big, but it is also an almost perfect insulator. Which makes cooling absolutely ridiculous. No conduction at all. Best you can do is some sort of liquid cooling and then pipe the liquid into a big flat panel to lose heat by radiation alone. Its like putting your CPU into a thermos fl...