Message-ID: <6840d511@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,comp.os.linux.misc References: <683ffc25@news.ausics.net> <06ednQIRiug4nd31nZ2dnZfqnPsAAAAA@giganews.com> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 5 Jun 2025 09:21:53 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 34 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail In comp.os.linux.misc c186282 wrote: > My concern is not with the underlying TECH- but > the underlying INTENT. The driving force now is probably military applications. Various autonomous fighting machines in Ukraine have shown the usefullness of Starlink in wartime, and that's prompted China to renew work on building an internet constellation of their own. Then, this AI constellation might be useful for efficiently processing all the data from thousands of drones swarming over our heads come WWIII. But it's too early to tell where they'll really go with that. > You don't invest THIS much without INTENT. It's not clear how much they've invested at this stage, having only launched the first 12 satellites of the planned thousands. These announcements are prone to vapour-ware, there was the Chinese "LinkSure" company in 2018 who were launching a free global internet constellation like what Starlink's became: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-30/chinese-company-to-provide-free-internet-worldwide-by-2026/10568434 There's not much news since, that I can find, but this page claims it's cancelled: https://www.newspace.im/constellations/linksure But there are new Chinese Starlink clone projects that are gaining more traction now: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/china-orbits-first-guowang-internet-satellites-with-thousands-more-to-come/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guowang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qianfan -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#