[jrq]

That's not so long though, in the scheme of things. Especially if the computer was very fast.

I read this book Artemis by Andy Weir recently (the guy who wrote the Martian) and it mentioned a moon Internet, and it was like 8 seconds away from the earth Internet or something like that. However, and the book didn't mention it, but what if a computer could be constructed that could perform extremely large calculations, and it was cheaper to produce there? In the book, they used a lot of glass for decor, because the ingredients to manufacture it were byproducts of other manufacturing already present, but something like that could be possible in space.

I like to imagine a satellite orbiting earth, with a little factory onboard, and it would send out probes and repurpose all the space junk in orbit and convert it to energy or use it to build stuff.

A planet computer could be expanding itself in that same way, and even though the calculations' results might be delayed, that might be more effective.

If humans make it another couple hundred years, they're gonna get to start thinking and building that stuff. That'll be cool

[lodi]

Actually the moon is only 1.3 light seconds away, so a ping of ~2.7s to the moon is possible!

Mars would be annoying to communicate with though: 25-44.8 minutes for a roundtrip signal.