Are many people too stupid to think beyond yes/no questions? Yes.

You just demonstrated the difference between a competent engineer and a clueless moron with stars in his eyes nicely.

Yes, in a few 100 years maybe. People tend to grossly overestimate what technology can do.

Cooling, communication, debris, cost of shipping to orbit, cost of station-keeping, power-generation (no, solar in space is not magic), cosmic radiation, needed size of the satellites, very easy to destroy, etc., etc.. The list of why this is a REALLY stupid idea is endless.

There is not a single aspect of this were the idea is actually good. All it does is tickle the imagination of the clueless. And that is exactly why it gets pushed.

That has nothing to do with the topic, and everything to do with the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Obviously you are trying to sling FUD.

In the case at hand, data-centers in space make zero sense at our current stage of technology because of multiple, very bad parameters that we cannot work around. That will not change for the foreseeable future and these problems are fundamental, not in the details. (There are really bad problems in the details as well...) Fundamental problems can be verified by smart and well-educated people even when they are not experts in the subject.

So? The reason people complain is that this is an exceptionally bad idea, longer-term. Independent academia is probably the major factor deciding where you will stand in 20 or 30 years. And if you do not have it, your future looks bleak. I guess you missed that small detail. Sure, the US has survived for a long time by importing people that can think, but that time is coming to its end as the "American Century" is currently being brought to its conclusion. No mentally competent person, except maybe some excessively greedy ones, wants to be part of a society that has elevated "stupid" to its mission statement. I mean, researchers are more welcome in China now than they are in the US.

Yes. Same as a "strategy" can never be "we are going to use whatever vendor_xyz has". That is called "surrender" and it is universally an exceptionally bad idea.

Now, the thing is, Microslop is really bad at technology. The only thing that keeps them going is tons of money and tons of believers. If they had to hire regular, competent engineers, they would probably collapse, because competent people can see what a unfixable steaming pile of crap their stuff is and go elsewhere. Hence it makes total sense that they indoctrinate their own fake engineers that think Microslop is the second coming. If you never show people actually good engineering and make them understand the principles behind it, they will think whatever gets shown to them is the state-of-the-art and really great. While that does not work for all people (the 10-15% independent thinkers will just get pissed off by something as dishonest and dysfunctional as that), it works for enough people to keep the slowly sinking ship going for a while longer.

True. But that is why normies no not decide how to build bridges, what the details of a power-grid are or where to lay water pipe or what instructions a CPU has. If we continue to let amateurs dictate the shape of critical infrastructure, that will end in total catastrophe. The EU has seen that now, but obviously decades of doing the very wrong thing are slow to unwind.

Yes. I completely agree on that. The UNIX philosophy of "do one thing and do it well" is still king. Monolithic applications that do a lot _cannot_ be good. The human race is not able to handle the complexity involved. Hence the only sane thing in software (and all engineering, really) is go for components as simple as reasonably possible, and then give them interaction possibilities.

Obviously, monolithic applications are perfect if you managed to trap a major segment of your customers into a monopoly, because they are much harder to replace. Until it all comes crashing down because you heaped technological debt on technological debt and your product is an insane, insecure, productivity-destroying mess and you cannot fix that because of the complexity anymore. My intuition is that Microsoft has passed that threshold a few years back. That would be the other reason why their stuff needs to be replaced with some real urgency.

The will know this makes no sense with regards top Physics. But they are engaged in the same deception most LLM providers are: Pretending that "AI" will give us a golden age, so they can reap insane profits before it all comes crashing down.

Teams is not being replaces because it is crap (it is, but still), Teams is replaces because it is from Microsoft and an order from the US administration can make it non-functional for any user (with several examples now, although MS is lying about them). Hence Sharepoint and eventually Windows have to go as well. And nothing of value will have been lost.

Yes. Unfortunately the EU has officials that are total idiots too. And, who knows, maybe Microslop had a hand in generating these reviews. Would not be the first time.

And, for example, that Teams finally got an Audio-test this years or so?

But my take is these are just people that do not want to use anything new. And they are too dumb to understand what the move away from Teams is actually about. Yes, the EU has dumb officials too, sadly.

Who wrote that demented headline?

But a major international incident with China, where the US is obviously and clearly in the wrong, is not something the US wants at all. It would cement its reputation as a rogue-nation and make recovery from that even harder. The US needs the rest of the world, even if the convicted criminal in the White House does not understand that.

Agreed. These people are both malicious and malignant. That they are dumb beyond belief ("Hawks" vs. "Hawkeyes" anybody?) just makes them more dangerous.

If you switch on machinery that you reasonably expect will hack somebody else, the regular hacking laws apply. Otherwise you could load a computer with hacking tools and some automation on top (LLMs are NOT needed for this) switch it on and then walk free. Newsflash: You will not.