I laughed out loud at this. Including the space balls giant suction robot was inspired. As I scrolled down, I was expecting to see a random dyson vacuum just pasted into the next panel. 100/10. PM doing the lord's work here.
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When questioned on his whereabouts during this incident, Captain Tuvok only had this to say:
Out of order? Fuck. Even in the future nothing works.
(At least until the 3rd act)
She's gone from suck to blow!
.........that is definitely not a Dyson, though.
Dysons are bagless tho
That’s just the oxygen supply for the crew.
Hm, is there sci-fi set inside a Dyson sphere? I am aware of Ringworld, but I want an actual sphere with a star in the center.
TNG S06E04 “Relics”
Other than that, I can’t think of any.
Yeah, I remember that one. But it's just inside the Enterprise and on the outside of the sphere. So weird that there's nothing with an actual sphere.
They get pulled in in the second part of that episode, but it’s more a “how do we escape” plot than a “look at this cool Dyson sphere” one.
Here is the D being tractored in. You can see the inside of the sphere in these shots.
When we consider that a dyson sphere encompasses a star and therefore has to be at least several AU to not fall into it, then the interior shot is laughably not to scale.
just use all the free power to reinforce the structural integrity field. what do you mean that would violate conservation of energy?
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
That is the episode that introduced me to the concept.
The Endymion books (followups to Hyperion) get into building one.
Deathgate cycle has one, but it's rocks and plants
In Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy the Mosdva have constructed a partial dyson sphere (interlinked diskcities)
In some of Neal Asher's books there is mention of a Dyson Sphere being constructed.
If you want to have a go of making one yourself, there is Dyson Sphere Program.
EDIT: "Bowl of Heaven" is another "not exactly a Dyson Sphere" novel, it takes place on a structure that is half a Dyson Sphere. Co-written by Gary Benford and Larry Niven. (author of "Ringworld")
But the vacuum was clearly a clone of a late 70's Kirby or Royal vacuum cleaner.
Or oreck
Design is pretty far off from the orecks.
It's going to be really funny trying to explain to aliens that our name for their pinnacle of engineering megaconstruct is just some dude's name
"He thought of it first"
this meme sucks!