TheSmellofOxygen
TheSmellofOxygen t1_iydihsg wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in ELI5: Would the sound of a spaceship leaving Earth slowly disappear to the people inside of it? by 4thesuns
Wow, the more you know! I'm sorry for misleading anyone.
TheSmellofOxygen t1_iyadhbu wrote
Reply to ELI5: Would the sound of a spaceship leaving Earth slowly disappear to the people inside of it? by 4thesuns
As long as the boosters are firing the vibrations from them will shake the spacecraft and produce a lot of sound inside. It will lessen a little as the atmosphere and its friction falls behind them, but not a ton. When you're sitting on a live rocket, it sounds like you're sitting on a live rocket.
TheSmellofOxygen t1_jbago7m wrote
Reply to comment by Ryimax in Lonestar emerges from stealth with plans for lunar data centers by buggaby
It's actually much harder to dissipate heat in vacuum. Only radiative cooling works. No air or water molecules to offload all that thermal energy into when they bump against you. Also solar radiation without an atmosphere, static regolith, latency, infeasibility of maintenance...
They'd definitely have to be buried. I guess I support this effort as a method of expanding space travel, but it's definitely worse than any earth based datacenter.