Gavin Baker
@GavinSBaker · Aug 31, 2026
Talking to brilliant physicists who have thought about orbital compute for 3 hours and are convinced it will never work makes me think of this Keanu Reeves quote:
“I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of arguments. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right. Have fun."
Fireside Alpha@firesidealpha· Aug 31, 2026Gavin Baker says the physics PhDs calling orbital data centers impossible on X have not out-thought the 10,000 SpaceX engineers who treat it as solved
"It's very hard for me to engage. There are all these people on X and they're like, I am a physics PhD and this is impossible."
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
When someone who claims they’re super smart says that orbital AI is impossible due to cooling or whatever, but doesn’t even know things as basic as heat rejection of the radiator per m^2, coolant temp or max operating temp of the GPU 🤦♂️
11:36 PM · August 31, 2026 · 62.8K views
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