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[Scott Manley] Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Deebster to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/24946971

TL;DW:

Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space?

At some point in the future, yes.

Can They Really Cost Less To Operate?

In theory, yes.

Scott expresses concerns that current startups have not adequately addressed some of the practical challenges, such as cooling.

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[–] Deebster 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The first thing to happen is that any liquids (saliva, tears, blood) will start to boil in the very low pressure, but your body won't explode like in some films. This boiling will pull heat from your body causing your nose and mouth to nearly freeze.

Another film trope is that you freeze over, but you'll often overheat first since you can't radiate your heat away quickly enough (depending on if you're in sunlight or not).

[–] 0x0 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think Mr Musk lost a good opportunity to find out by sending a dummy instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah but he didn’t want to be gone from spewing bullshit on twitter that long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Anything within a sealed loop such as blood or brain fluid shouldn't be boiling. Your body is pretty good at keeping that stuff inside as long as you don't have any major cuts or something. That said, I don't think even a minor cut suffered in the vacuum could clot or scab without oxygen.

All of the air in any of your orifices would rapidly get sucked out (including from one's butt), and pretty much any liquids exposed to the resulting vacuum would boil. Negative pressure within the body means more room-temp boiling liquids, which then creates more air to get sucked out! It's a feedback loop!

A space-exposed corpse would likely end up quite dehydrated for the above reason.