[DoctorOetker]

Please do hang your datacenters in space so as not to piss away your waste heat in our rivers, soils or atmosphere.

Go to the bathroom upstairs, don't use our ecosystem as your latrines if you can direct it straight to the CMB.

[delaminator]

The US consumes 100 million aluminum soda cans per day.

We lived without aluminum soda cans for 100k years

[DoctorOetker]

You can't compare soda cans with computational results, we can't teleport soda cans up and down cheaply, but we can cheaply beam data up and down.

[DoctorOetker]

I wish HN would have a downvote penalty mechanism, where the number of replies on comments you downvote should be at least x percent, say 50%.

Oh no the burden of actually explaining why you want to de-emphasize a comment.

[Rexxar]

Maybe because your tone is needlessly aggressive and lot's of people don't want HN turns into Reddit/Twitter. There is enough people raging on everything on all social networks maybe we are here hopping to have more civilised discussions.

[quickthrowman]

> Oh no the burden of actually explaining why you want to de-emphasize a comment.

One single square meter of land in direct sunlight receives a constant 6kW (21MJ) of energy. The heat rejected by industrial and other processes is absolutely minuscule in comparison, a rounding error.

Comments that are incorrect but posted in an authoritative voice get downvoted, for good reason.

[rsync]

Let me explain to you that I downvoted this comment because you complained about your downvotes.

Please don't interrupt the discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system.