At $20M/kg, there’s apparently enough money in it to be worth bringing it home and still making a profit (I remain skeptical but a Finnish company called Bluefors spent $300M with Interlune for rights to helium-3 from the moon)

"we see that you've been taking samples of the surface of mars. here are some reusable containers for your samples"

"we see that you've purchased a lunar orbit module. would you like to set up a monthly subscription for more lunar orbit modules?"

"sign up for 2 years on the moon and we'll knock 40% off your recurring fees"

it doesnt matter if the astronauts were INSIDE THE AZURE DATACENTER - they would have had the same problems.

because the problems had nothing to do with the lasers, groundstations, tranceivers, or protocol (tcp in this case).

the problem squarely rests at the feet of microsoft, azure, and "exchange".

the mistake was selecting microsoft to be the vendor to handle comms

Laser comms and delay tolerant networking are awesome and this whole thread has been 🤌

latency is not the problem here

no microwaves or wireless phones either. at least, not yet.

There is a point where even the most brainwashed users and sysadmins are going to realize the software they are using has no utility, and that they are the guinea pig generating data for whatever nefarious fuckery the techbros cooked up.

then i guess moon wifi.

that shit is so cool

someone at nasa decided that microsoft was gonna be the MTA they were going to use.

someone at nasa paid microsoft money, thinking they could be depended upon.

that person was FUCKIN WRONG

fuckin bonehead