Mackenzie bezos is our Robin Hood

What is whining about now?

Can you all hear that real tiny violin?

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What would destroy the moon? You guys have a weird idea of what you think a small reactor can do. We've had dozens of reactor failures on earth, none came close to destroying the planet.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the size of planets vs the size of nuclear explosions.

If by "remote work," they mean work was somewhere other than where they were, we are starting to find common ground.

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Couldn’t we just solar it?

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That's pocket change for him. He's fine.

These reactors will not use water but work with liquid metal coolant.

The heat sinks are giant radiative arrays. Similar designs were proposed for spacecraft during the SNAP program in the 1960s and 1970s.

Yeah, didn't he pull like 2 billion out and was the one who told others to do the same? Pennies lost if he doesn't get this back.

Launching nuclear fuel into space is fairly safe, because it only becomes highly radioactive after the reactor starts running.

So you build and launch your reactor in a fully "stopped" state. You make sure it makes it to its destination. And only then you start the reactor and make the fuel "hot".

Of course they do

In other news, Rolls Royce taken over by Bond villain. More at 11.

The world would be a much better place without the majority of those companies

The issue with cooling in open space is that there's nothing you can dump your waste heat into.

Things like ISS use special radiators to radiate away waste heat - while small things that can generate a lot of heat for their size, like space suits, use water evaporation to mount a compact heat removal system.

On the surface of the Moon, you have the entire Moon that you could dump your waste heat into.

Of course, actually dumping the heat into the ground is an engineering and construction challenge - so early Moon and Mars reactors might opt for radiators, like the ones ISS currently uses. They would need a lot of them, but it's still doable for small reactors.

That's another way of saying "please don't probe our deals"

Yeah ..must be all the remote workers!

Oh, as a deposit? Then he'll get it all back. No schadenfreude here. The investors are getting rinsed, but depositors are all fine.

I guess the tv show For All Mankind wasnt that sci-fi. Nuclear powers the moon-base on that show.

"get number 5"? What on earth are you babbling about now?

Seriously. I work remotely for a bank and we're doing just fine.

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And he’ll be first to get it back. Everyone not a billionaire get in line and don’t hold your breath.

The articles contains exactly zero input from SVB employees or any tangible argument whatsoever for why remote work had anything to do with things besides that they allowed it, mayhap even encouraged it.