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1. hn_submit · 1790368399 · focus · HN ↗

   Elon lets out a fart and everyone's running after it. This is another misguided attempt to pump-up their share price or give clueless investors the feeling that Google is leading the A.I. pack.

   Orbital data centers are a stupid idea conjured up by Musk when he was taking mescaline or ketamine. Anyone with half a brain knows this doesn't make sense.

   1. milleramp · 1790369296 · focus · HN ↗

      It's research to collect data, and it's not your money, what do you care?

      1. 9dev · 1790369732 · focus · HN ↗

         Because it takes so much attention away from projects that would be worthwhile.

         1. nine_k · 1790370032 · focus · HN ↗

            For instance? Which projects would benefit from more public attention?

            1. burnt-resistor · 1790380744 · focus · HN ↗

               Solving climate change by mostly eliminating fossil fuel use, antibiotic resistant bacteria with new antibiotics, eliminating risks of pandemics generated from meat agriculture, creating novel antimycotics, curing various cancers, and reversing shrinking peace, freedom, privacy, and middle classes around the world to name a few.

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