Paul Moss

And radiation wreaks havoc on digital data.

If you ever want to upgrade the hardware in the data center, congratulations, you have to do a spacewalk.

But I suppose one could ask, are they insurmountable problems?

Given, you know, at some point in our history, the idea of even going into space was thought to be fanciful.

Are these insurmountable necessarily?

It is not impossible to put a single data center into space.

But it's never going to be a better idea than building it here on Earth.

Well, you've addressed the economic and the practical, but there is another aspect to this, is there not?

And one that you're interested in, which is the philosophical one, the why.

Not just Elon Musk, but others are saying, look, we have to look to the stars for our future.

You know, Musk talks a lot about putting a million people on Mars by 2050.

in order to create a backup for humanity that will survive in the event of a massive disaster here on Earth, like an asteroid strike.

This is possibly the stupidest idea that I've ever heard.

I think that for someone like Musk or, you know, someone like Jeff Bezos, who's espoused similar ideas, there's two things that work there.

I think two main things.

First, that they are afraid of death and want to transcend all limits and see going to space as part of that project.

And second, they watched too much science fiction and misunderstood it.

Is your concern then that some of this is displacement activity for actually addressing the problems on Earth?

Yeah, absolutely.

The way that Musk talks about Earth is like it's doomed.