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Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

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neuronexmachina · 1790274986 · focus · HN ↗
Whenever I hear about this I can't help but be reminded of the Howard Hughes Glomar Explorer, where a hugely-expensive commercial project was actually part of a secret CIA initiative to recover a Soviet submarine: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
I'm not sure that's truly the case here, but it does seem like the tech Project Suncatcher is working on has at least some overlap with requirements for military SIGINT and in-orbit imagery processing.
1. maxlin · 1790292229 · focus · HN ↗
  While a bit tin foil hat-y, this is an interesting (conspiracy) theory, even while space datacenters aren't as impractical as some people try to make them to be.
  1. senordevnyc · 1790301189 · focus · HN ↗
    Some people, or physics?
    maxlin · 1790311084 · focus · HN ↗
    Some people, claiming to be the authority on laws of physics. While people actually doing this are obviously more credentialed and talented than said internet fools.
    It's getting quite tiresome.

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