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Image of the top of the article - The Dumbest Thing I’ve Seen This Week December 11, 2025 Given that it is 2025, the dumbest thing I’ve seen this week is some stiff competition, but “AI datacenters in space” is some impressive idiocy. I’ve seen a few breathless media reports on how AI companies are planning to launch entire datacenters into space. Some of these articles point to a single H100 GPU that was used to train a LLM while in orbit. Obviously, humanity has the capacity to launch a single GPU into orbit, and small LLMs can be trained on an H100. However, that’s a far cry from a datacenter, and so it is somewhat surprising that this is being hyped by companies who are selling the idea of massive datacenters in orbit. To be blunt, the entire stupid idea is a giant middle finger to multiple fundamentals of physics, and the fact that it is apparently being taken seriously by our tech lords, mainstream journalism, and political leaders is a damning indictment of not just the ridiculous amount of money chasing bad ideas in the tech/LLM/hype sector that has eaten the American economy, political power centers, and people who really should know better, but yet another demonstration of how people who built their economic empire on a claim of STEM-based rigor and quantitative genius either can’t do basic physics or know that no one out there who matters is going to call them on it. 5df4ab4c18bb61ff.png Tweet from Elon Musk @elonmusk That’s my favorite part with embedde tweet by Aaron Burnett @aaronburnett is this the first time Kardashev II-level civilization has been used in an FCC filing? f60317aafe4b50ff.png Image of the first page of the filing - SpaceX requests authority to launch and operate a constellation of satellites with unprecedented computing capacity to power advanced artificial intelligence (“AI”) models and the applications that rely on them. By directly harnessing near-constant solar power with little operating or maintenance costs, these satellites will achieve transformative cost and energy efficiency while significantly reducing the environmental impact associated with terrestrial data centers. Launching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization—one that can harness the Sun’s full power—while supporting AI-driven applications for billions of people today and ensuring humanity’s multi-planetary future amongst the stars SpaceX is designing its satellite system to accommodate the explosive growth of data demands driven by AI, machine learning, and edge omputing, where processing needs are already beginning to outpace terrestrial capabilities. To deliver the compute capacity required for large- scale AI inference and data center applications serving billions of users globally, SpaceX aims to deploy a system of up to one million satellites to operate within narrow orbital shells spanning up to 50 km each (leaving sufficient room to deconflict against other systems with comparable ambitions). This system will operate between 500 km and 2,000 km altitude ... ddabd2f9bf36fad7.png Post by Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent, in fact, that the taillight broke off in pieces. It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. 4dfb4581c63231b0.png Map of sea surface ocean temperatures off the Pacific coast and the gulf. Temps are two to five degrees above normal in the Gulf of America and Northern Pacific Ocean. The Northern Pacific Ocean has been under a marine heat wave for almost a year. These are driving moisture to fuel an ice storm in the South Climate Central Read more at: https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/environment/article314412696.html#storylink=cpy f36169e0efb282e7.png Map showing anomalies of 3-day daily maximum temperatures from 7-9th January 2026 over Australia with respect to mean summer (December-February) daily maximum temperatures over the 1991-2020 climatological period. The study region is shown in pink. Data: ERA5. ea57c7fda30c3381.png Map from the Weather channel of snowfall and ice accumulation amounts. 222f1af71ebaef47.png Gary Larson's infamous cartoon "Cow Tools." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools c53a42ffe8a8a3f2.png Orbital diagram of SpainSAT NG II with added annotations for Apogee, Perigee and Inclination. 6c71081b2c0577ee.png 1. Diagram of the CT with location of its equipment inside it https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Space-shuttle-crawler-transporter-hydraulic-system-Faszera-Farquharson/bae260224505249acd5811800fa0d103ea96c8a2 2. Table of specs of the upgraded CT-2. Info source: https://www3.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/combined_crawler-transporters_fact_sheet_final.pdf 3. Pat Brown, a mechanical technician with Jacobs, performs engine maintenance on NASA's crawler-transporter 2 on March 26, 2019, in the crawler yard located in Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39 area Photographer:NASA/Kim Shiflett https://images.nasa.gov/details-KSC-20190326-PH_KLS01_0055 https://images.nasa.gov/search?q=crawler&page=1&media=image,video,audio&yearStart=1920&yearEnd=2026 941b3a8350267e7b.png