They only work during the day though.
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If you want to make one you can.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Program/
Damn that looks cool
Be carful with those. You may block the light of constellation aliens use and really piss then off.
Eh, they won't find out until a few centuries later anyway
Well unless they are monitoring or are relatively close. The issue was they got annoyed cause their decedendants won't see their "holy constellation". Something like a north star to them I guess. So anyway I started a purification campaign In response.
...no, they won't know for a few hundred years due to the actual speed of light and vast distances of space.
Unless they have some fancy alien sensor with quantum entangled particles so they get an alert instantly
You're assuming they are not part of the deep state already!
It's a Stellaris reference. Once you can build Dyson spheres there's a chance your (also FTL capable) neighbors complain about you blocking their sacred star.
I usually just give them money and they forgive me.
"People of Earth, I am Lrrr of the planet Omicron Persei 8."
excellent stellaris reference! ;)
You need to watch more Star Trek, friend.
Specifically "The Next Generation", Season 6, Episode 4, " Relics".
Thank me later. 😁
Classic episode; one of my favorite
With a bottle of green.
No bloody A B C or D
Came here to say that if you like this concept, Peter Hamilton has a book series called Commonwealth Saga in the science fiction category that is excellent. Lots of pseudoscience from early 2000s in that series.
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Some TIL posts really surprise you, it's crazy to me that you have never heard about this. Not being degrading or anything like that, it's just surprising.
Yeah never heard about it, although I never watched Star Trek personally.
But did you know that we can extract Graphene by heating it up super high so that everything else gets destroyed except graphene?
Read the bobiverse and you'll come across a topopolis. The pictures on wiki suck so here's one from fiction.
Eh, there's only one in all of Star Trek, and they forgot about it after one episode. Should have a whole series.
There was a star trek novel dealing with it. I read it but don't remember any details. My favorite along those lines was the ringworld books.
I didn't know that! You keep sharing the hits! Keep it coming!
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If you think it's cool, you should try the game :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Program/
Wait! The same problem Larry Niven’s Ringworld have also applies to Dyson Spheres? Huh! Saving to read later.
I don’t remember the math, but you lose return on investment after a certain percentage of coverage.
Dyson Grids are the future!!! 😜
Or DYson Bubbles, which would also "cover" enough "surface" to be viable without needing god knows how many planets' worth of material
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There is also the Matrioshka brain, a hypothetical supercomputer powered by a Dyson sphere
Ok this one's new to me!
Kind of looks like an atom
Okay but where does the invisible hand dryer go?
Is dark matter just Dyson sphered stars?
My initial reaction: "What? No."
After thinking a little bit: "hmm I guess you could say that..."
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Start with a dyson ring or swarm
We will be lucky to have Dyson vacuums at the end of this century
You might like this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A about how to build one from Earth.
It's a pretty cool concept, and I enjoyed building one in Dyson Sphere Program, but I don't really understand how you would transport that amount of energy to where you need it. Are they like mirrors that redirect and focus light to some point?
I guess you would store it in chemicals like oil or create radioactive substances that are optimised for specific energy decay rates
Split into several laser beams targeting a bunch of big-ass converters in line around the equator. But it would have to be extremely accurate and route a fraction of total power unless you want to pulverize earth
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