   Forgot your password?  Submission Intelligence Official Says
He Was Fired For Not Lying To Congress->     Link to Original
Source  Submission Server Sky - internet and computation in
orbit->  mbone writes: Even if SpaceX and other companies can
drastically lower the cost of going to orbit, what are we going
to do once we get there? Since the 1970's, NASA has been
searching for commercial applications for space, such as making
crystals or medicines in zero-gravity, but, except for
communications and navigation, space as yet barely figures into
commerce, largely because it is expensive to send materials
there, and expensive to send finished products back. Now there
is Server Sky, which is trying to build on the realization that
information is the cheapest product to send to and from space,
and that "traditional data centers consume almost 3% of US
electrical power, and this fraction is growing rapidly. Server
arrays in orbit can grow to virtually unlimited computation
power, communicate with the whole world,