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csmeder | 4 years ago

As we saw with Inspiration 4, SpaceX is willing to take commissions, thus:

This might not be the cheapest way, however, if you can engineer a satellite to last 500 years [1], you could then have SpaceX put it up in orbit for over 500 years[2]. Have this satellite broadcast your website via radio [3]. Then setup a trust with a consortium of lawyers to maintain a ground station network that hosts the website on earth's internet.

This way even if the earth lawyers/society fail you, you are still hosting the website technically, just not on earth's internet.

[1] Does anyone know if this is reasonably possible?

[2] https://space.stackexchange.com/a/5599

[3] https://science.howstuffworks.com/question431.htm

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terafo|4 years ago

Single sat wouldn't be able to broadcast 24/7 because batteries will fail after some time and sun won't be available all the time. Because sat won't be powered on all the time it will collide with something eventually even if there is fuel left(I believe that you can't hold fuel for ion drives for that long because gases leak). One sat is definitely not going to work, dozen might have a chance. But I think they all will be hacked in less than a century.

manquer|4 years ago

Electionics has much shorter than 500 year life times , even shorter in the harsh radiation filled environment in space.

airstrike|4 years ago

Re: [1] assuming it's possible, you'd still want to probably have 2 or 3 satellites for redundancy...