Data Centers on the Moon

[Hobgoblin]

Data center on the moon confirmed

that's no moon

 

[CherryBomb]

Oh great. It takes forever to get someone to push the reset button here on earth. Now we have to wait for some lunatic to reboot the server.

Hey Jerry, are you going to be the one that relocates to the moon to better support the enterprise?

 

[Alternative]

Sure, but the moon will be located in another data center.

How come this message is not on Staff tracker?

 

[droid327]

How come this message is not on Staff tracker?

They can hide individual posts from the Tracker. He probably thought it'd be confusing outside of context

 

[Commodore Max]

It doesn't exist. I asked ~800 people if they have ever been there and they all said no so I have statistical proof it doesn't exist.

so by your logic, Antarctica doesn’t exist either, since most people you ask haven’t been there. Neither does the Mariana Trench, Jupiter, or Beyoncé’s house. Sampling only people who haven’t been to a place and then claiming that proves it doesn't exist is like surveying fish and concluding air isn’t real. That’s not statistics, that’s just… confidently wrong.

 

[Buddha5440]

You took that seriously?????

It was a slam on all those 'I have proof of this because I looked at my results 800 times' threads that plague the forums. I was simply pointing out how horribly statistics can be abused.

 

[Xaerxiessia]

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

 

[Svirfneblin]

The heat that the data center generates would actually melt the moon and cause it to float away in small pieces because everyone knows at the moon is made of cheese

 

[Buddha5440]

Galactic nachos anyone?

 

[Hobgoblin]

intergalactic planetary

 

[Mindos]

intergalactic planetary

(another dimension)

 

[nenetteblackmoor]

In the Tycho Crater on the Moon, there's a red haired lad they call the Wizard of Science.

If you ever run into trouble with a server on the Moon, he's the one who would come to the rescue.

 

[ACJ97F]

Sure, but the moon will be located in another data center.

What moon hosts the server where my bug report from Dec 2017 is stored? Those U37 filigree still haven't fixed themselves.

 

[Commodore Max]

You took that seriously?????

It was a slam on all those 'I have proof of this because I looked at my results 800 times' threads that plague the forums. I was simply pointing out how horribly statistics can be abused.

The classic, "I was just pointing out a flaw in others by mimicking their logic exactly" defense. If that was satire, congrats, you perfectly embodied the kind of flawed reasoning you're criticizing. But you can't really blame people for responding in good faith when you argue like someone who genuinely believes it. Poe's Law in action.

 

[Azasmokey]

who the hell listens to the BBC

 

[lilgeek]

Oh my! What have I done? :ROFLMAO:
I am enjoying the show.

 

[ilya187]

Here is the article in question: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjewvpkw7weo

My immediate thoughts:

1. How will this datacenter get rid of waste heat?
2. What happens during 14 days out of every 28 that it is in lunar night, and receives no solar energy?

 

[Celestrata Bloodsong]

This is not a thread I expected to see in the DDO forums. And yet, I also read this article and found it to be pretty interesting.

But for space-to-space transmissions, yeah, a moon data center is probably great? But for space-to-earth transmissions... not so much right yet.

And yeah... waste heat. Really intrigued about how the waste heat is gonna be handled.

 

[FaceDancer]

Heat pipes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe