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NASA has sparked a race to develop the data pipeline to Mars (techcrunch.com)
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[โ€“] Funwayguy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is it because they found water for their datacenters?

[โ€“] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's a thought actually - maybe more for the moon, but also for Mars. With no/little atmosphere, wouldn't there be an issue with radiating heat away from computers etc in a future base?

I'm an interested non-expert, so this may be a dumb question ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

wouldnโ€™t there be an issue with radiating heat away from computers etc in a future base?

Not a dumb question at all. There are a few startups pursuing in-space computing, and many of them seem to hand-wave away the thermal regulation challenges. I suppose geothermal (selenothermal?) could be possible on the moon, but I'm not sure it would be worth the effort.

[โ€“] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

So, pumping heat into the rocks? Yeah, that seems like it'd be quite a challenge! Thanks ๐Ÿ‘