Talk:Tree Diagram/@comment-5065493-20150925164120/@comment-28867045-20161209060140

One of the reasons it was probably placed in low-earth orbit was to allow for an assortment of security purposes. You can't exactly respond very quickly if your supercomputer on the moon suddenly got wasted. Not only that, it was placed above the city as well in the guise of performing calculations for the weather for the next month. That's hard to do from a light second away.