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	2025-06-05 09:21 +1000
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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.

>   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

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Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-02 22:20 -0400
  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
        Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-05 03:25 +0000
          Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-06 00:10 -0400
        Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-06-06 19:06 +0000
        Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-06 22:47 +0200
          Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-06 22:20 +0100
            Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-06-07 10:19 +0000
              Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-07 11:32 +0100
              Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Harold Stevens <wookie@aspen.localdomain> - 2025-06-07 07:29 -0500
                Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-07 22:18 -0400
                Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-08 10:18 +0100
                Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-06-08 18:33 +0000
                Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-08 21:31 +0100
      Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-06-05 09:21 +1000
        Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 23:29 -0400
          Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-06-06 08:25 +1000
            Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-05 21:51 -0400

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