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#588 Delian on Space and Bitcoin

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Is It Possible to Run a Fibeo Cable Up Test in Space?

From start to finish, that whole process you talked about takes on average four years. The largest thing you can send up is roughly the size of a glove box. To keep it really low cost, we're putting everything in vacuum. In atmosphere at the biggest thing is actually the like, thermal environment. So if something gets hot, it just stays hot. And so what you have to do is you have to use these ot what are called, like, radiative cooling tubes. They work by absorbing heat and then sending it out into space through wires which glow extra red when they get too hot. Ah, that's the only hard part, basiy, cooling down is really hard when

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