Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer"

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From	not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject	Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer"
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Date	2025-06-06 08:25 +1000
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In comp.os.linux.misc c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
> On 6/4/25 7:21 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.misc c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>>>    My concern is not with the underlying TECH- but
>>>    the underlying INTENT.
>> 
>> The driving force now is probably military applications. Various
>> autonomous fighting machines in Ukraine have shown the usefullness
>> of Starlink in wartime, and that's prompted China to renew work on
>> building an internet constellation of their own. Then, this AI
>> constellation might be useful for efficiently processing all the
>> data from thousands of drones swarming over our heads come WWIII.
>> But it's too early to tell where they'll really go with that.
> 
> 
>   However, this does not seem to be another StarLink ... that
>   is not what they're talking about. China already has lots
>   of comm sats - and likely the codes to take over StarLink
>   and friends in a pinch.

You don't think they'd connect this AI constellation to their comms
sats? Seems inevitable to me.

>>>    You don't invest THIS much without INTENT.
>> 
>> It's not clear how much they've invested at this stage, having only
>> launched the first 12 satellites of the planned thousands. These
>> announcements are prone to vapour-ware, there was the Chinese
>> "LinkSure" company in 2018 who were launching a free global
>> internet constellation like what Starlink's became:
>> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-30/chinese-company-to-provide-free-internet-worldwide-by-2026/10568434
>> 
>> There's not much news since, that I can find, but this page claims
>> it's cancelled:
>> https://www.newspace.im/constellations/linksure
>> 
>> But there are new Chinese Starlink clone projects that are gaining
>> more traction now:
>> https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/china-orbits-first-guowang-internet-satellites-with-thousands-more-to-come/
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guowang
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianfan
> 
>   China, of course, wants more global net. However the
>   means to THAT is much simpler than this project. WHY
>   create a cluster super-computer in orbit ?

Well I talked about that before and you said "My concern is not
with the underlying TECH", so I give up.

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  Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Jason H <jason_hindle@yahoo.com> - 2025-06-03 19:06 +0000
    Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Chris Narkiewicz <hello@ezaquarii.com> - 2025-06-04 08:13 +0100
      Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 04:09 -0400
    Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-04 11:39 +0100
  Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-06-04 17:56 +1000
    Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 04:15 -0400
      Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-04 11:44 +0100
        Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 23:25 -0400
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