Comment by exomonk

Comment by exomonk 3 days ago

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Space datacenters have the dual-use of tracking and weapons targeting which is needed for a robust Golden Dome architecture (immune to comm link jamming, terabit image sensor processing)

Musk is involved in every aspect of Golden Dome.

bigyabai 3 days ago

> Space datacenters have the dual-use of tracking and weapons targeting

Space datacenters aren't going to be equipped with military infrared sensors. They stick out like a sore thumb on the electromagnetic spectrum and the second you test it every peer-power would know it's a military platform. Nevermind the fact that the satellites don't transmit to American C2, so they'd need laggy ad-hoc networking to reach STRATCOM over on Link 16.

> Musk is involved in every aspect of Golden Dome.

SpaceX is the only firm on the planet produces a booster stack with the throw weight to put a usable kinetic weapon in orbit. It's not their first military contract, Musk has been sticking his nose in the NRO projects for years now.

Are you the user forgot-im-old? Your stylometry (and obsession with Musk/SDI) is pretty familiar. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=forgot-im-old

  • exomonk 3 days ago

    Not sure what you're trying to say

    If you're interested in Musk and the Mars Society history as a front for the U.S. military industrial complex, a good start is https://www.mintpressnews.com/pentagon-recruiting-elon-musk-...

    And that was written before Musk won the recent Golden Dome contracts, etc.. so very precient

    • bigyabai 3 days ago

      You're talking past everything I said. Do you have any sources for your claim that space based datacenters are dual-use?