• cmnybo
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    6 hours ago

    What would they use it for? The 2.5 seconds of latency would be too high for most uses. Cooling will be very difficult with no atmosphere. Solar power will be hard since night time lasts two weeks. Radiation will damage electronics unless they bury them.

    • Semperverus@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      No hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, or other types of disasters on the moon. Asteroids are rare enough now that they basically don’t count.

      Latency is high but it doesnt matter for data redundancy.

    • catloaf@lemm.ee
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      3 hours ago

      Anything that needs a lot of data. Same reason you’d download something to your PC instead of streaming it.

      Also for local processing before upload. If you have a huge data set that compresses well, it’s much better to compress first, then upload to Earth.