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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Shitty AI generated Dyson Sphere is off-center. Whole thing is going to destabilize and collapse.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's what happened to Larry Niven's Ringworld. Cool concept but laughably unsupported by basic Physics. Niven had to write a sequel not because anybody wanted to see more of his characters but because he was tired of readers telling him what a moron he was.

The Integral Trees was a way better concept and much better thought out.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

O'Neill cylinders are the only real reliable megastructure that would actually function.

Though it would need to be way bigger than the ship depicted in The Expanse or the gyroscopic forces would be too strong for anybody to be able to operate.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't even look like anything, it's just a random rectangles.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

When you subcontract your dyson sphere out to the lowest bidding AI.