(June 6, 2018 at 7:17 pm)johan Wrote:(June 6, 2018 at 4:20 pm)Fireball Wrote: The cost of space grade components to increase the reliability of their servers would be orders of magnitude more expensive than remaining cooled on land.
No need for space grade components. Weight won't be a factor like it is with objects bound for space so you can pack lots of extra backup units in there. It won't be Best Buy cheap but you should be able to do it for way less than the cost of space grade. My point was creating computer systems that work reliably hands off for extended periods of time is hardly uncharted territory.
True, to the extent that they have the room for massive redundancy. I still think, like Anomolacaris, why can't they be retrieved? That seems seriously not thought out.
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