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We can use a ZFS storage system to make the moons of Saturn inhabitable. That's Sealand taken to a whole new level.

The network latencies are terrible, however.

Charles Stross wrote a book loosely incorporating this concept (Accelerando, I think).

Doesn't Douglas Adams touch on that? Wasn't Earth a big computer in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galacy?

From a wikipedia entry... "[The computer] Deep Thought does not know the ultimate question to Life, the Universe and Everything, but offers to design an even more powerful computer, Earth, to calculate it. After ten million years of calculation, the Earth is destroyed by Vogons five minutes before the computation is complete."

Deep Thought used ZFS. The ZFS pool for the calculations was 98% full when the Vogons came.

> One day, we will use our oceans as heat sinks for our great galactic computer. And even then, ZFS will serve us well.

FTFY