[_puk]

It's a play on "in space no-one can hear you scream", not a literal "compute is so noisy we need to go to space"

The jurisdiction issue is the bigger one. Deserts don't solve this; International waters, possibly do, but then you've got other issues.

[jdw64]

Is that so? How embarrassing. I'm not a native English speaker, so I didn't understand the metaphor.