Apr
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I'm leaving Fimfiction to build a Dyson Sphere · 8:20am Apr 1st, 2021
Let's face it, nothing on this site is a productive use of our time. We're like pigs in the line to the slaughterhouse, sniffing each other's butts instead of figuring out a way to save ourselves.
The Earth is full and we have no new land to spread to anymore. But we're like viruses, we need to spread. So the obvious choice is to build a Dyson Sphere around the Sun where we can spread to and prosper.
Now building that megastructure would, indeed, be a productive use of our time. I'ma gonna go build one right now instead of writing a fanfic.
Just don't ask me where the Sun is when you fail to see a sunrise in the morning. It's still there, you just can't see it because it's covered with my Dyson Sphere. The night will last forever!
Only saw it because you put #April fool's day, i admit you got me good, well played.
Clever prank, my friend. 😏
I read the title and think How the Tartarus are you going to build a Dyson Sphere?! I read the blog and think Yeah, this is a prank. He's not leaving any time soon. Good one. I almost believed it.
clever boy
Will this cost than, say, 100 euros? If not, then I could build one over yours and we can make them like Russian Nesting Dolls. It will be Dysons all day long, which will be 24/7.
Hmm.... a Dyson Sphere.... Thank you very much, you just help me out of my writer's block, which has plagued me for months on end.
5487731 5487732 5487759 5487779 I think this was actually my first April fool's joke ever. I never liked the lying aspect of it. I can, however, appreciate the 'expanding one's mind' aspect of it. Some April fool's jokes are sometimes actually half-truths that were too gated to come out in public on any other day.
5487983 I'm pretty sure a Dyson Sphere would cost more than 100 EUR. And even if it didn't, building one around mine would leave yours without power.
Well, I would leave an opening in my Dyson Sphere, but I need that hole. You can't have it! I need it to propel the solar system around the galaxy so that I can build Dyson Spheres around other stars as well.
5487992 I actually wish Dyson Spheres weren't just fictional. Stars are so wasteful...
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The same could be said about Ring Worlds and O'Neill cylinder.
5488008 It's unfortunate that we don't see many of those around.
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Well, I hope you enjoyed it.
5488021 Indeed, I have.
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At least not yet...... not in this time period... And sadly to said you and I and everyone here will be long dead and gone when that happens. Which sucks as all Tartarus.
Looks promising! ... wake me up when it's done so I can mess it up
5488031 The Universe has already burned through a tenth of the available hydrogen. The heat death clock is ticking our time away. Every second we waste not encasing the sun with a Dyson Sphere, we lose the amount of energy that could have sustained trillions of people. So many people, screaming from oblivion, every second...
5488081 Please don't mess up my Dyson Sphere, the future of humanity depends on it.
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Humanity doesn't need a Dyson Sphere, because:
Humanity needs to repeat the above over and over until they understand
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5488266 The system still needs energy.
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Hmm, you do have a point... Cary on then! I'm gonna take a nap until it's done
5488685 Don't count on the Sun to wake up, though. If I do manage to build a Dyson Sphere, you'll never see the Sun ever again. Nobody ever will.
I am so swarmed at work that I have not been here in weeks:
If you are still here just remember 2 things:
5506806 There is very little metal orbiting a star. Most of it is at the center of the star, the rest is concentrated in planets and floating rocks.
The swarm still needs to be connected. Either by suspensions or by magnets. Also, a Dyson Sphere can be a solid structure. That actually protects it from cascade collisions (something that might happen with our satellites).
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Sol contains 99.8% the mass of the Solar System. 2% of the atmosphere of Sol is meta. . If this holds all of the way down to the center, the mass of metal in in Sol is 10 times greater than the mass of all of the planets combined. After we disassible the planets, we can use StarLifting for mining the S. n. We can also remove the helium, thus reducing the mass of the Sun so that it lasts longer and use the helium to build a Blue Dwarf, a type of star the Universe is 10^12 years to young to have naturally.
DysonSpheres do not have to be solid. Indeed, if solid, one could not build them from any known material. Imagine a swarm of Solar Collectors and O'neillCylinders instead. The swarm can consist of statites, suspended my lightpressure, so that one need not worry about orbits. This will bring us from less than Kardashev 1 to Kardashev 2. We can add more layers and build a MatrioshkaBrain and let CelestAI run EquestriaOnLine on it. We shall aave 4*10^26 Watts at our disposal.
5506868 If it were up to me, I'd skip all these steps and just throw Sol into a black hole to increase its rotation. Then we could take (almost) all the time in the world building apparatus for extracting said rotational energy.
The problem with Sol is that it doesn't store energy. It radiates it into oblivion, never to be seen again. We should have a Dyson Sphere around it for the last 5 billion years. As it is, with every second we delay, we condemn trillions of people to non-existence. The greatest genocide of all time is happening right now because we don't have a Dyson Sphere.
When others look out at night upon the starry sky, they are in awe due to its supposed beauty. Me, I scream at the sky, "Is Kardashev 1 all you're capable of, you stupid spawns of bitches?" And when humans give me funny looks, I start screaming the same sentence at them as well.
Whenever I see lights in the sky, I know that the Universe is wrong. There should be utter darkness. The pitch-black night should last forever! We should make it so. Why aren't we making it so?
Solar wind and rotation around the star can sustain an orbit. But it might not be stable. Any rock can destabilize it. Same with solar flares. Each piece could have propulsion to fix its orbit, but that would make the parts more complicated than they need to be. Simple ropes or magnets could fix the issue. Then again, it's not that much of an issue to begin with. We could cross that bridge when we get to it. The problem is that we haven't even begun that journy.
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The statites wo. ldnot need to worry about stray debris after we disassemble everything in the Solar System. Each statite would have controlsurfaces and a computer controlling them. They would be like sailing ships using light. They would need no propellant.
A K2 civilization would be more powerful than a Galactic Empire:
Isaac Asimov wrote that Trantor controlled 2.5*10^7 worlds. A K2 civilization would have about 10^3 times more power at its disposal. A K3 civilization would be 10^13 times more powerful than the Galactic Empire. We are ~.7 on the Kardeshev Scale, the Galactic Empire is K~1.7, but after completing a Dyson Swarm of staites, we would be K2:
K0 = 10^6 Watts
K1 = 10^16 Watts
K2 = 10^26 Watts
K3 = 10^36 Watts
If a k.7 civilization can support 10^10 humans, a K2 civilization should support 10^23 humans.
5507099 People think 8 billion people is a lot. It's nothing compared to how many there should be.
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Yes. A K2 civilization can conservatively support 10^23 people in its O'NeillCylinders, or10^13 people for every person alive today. The planet-bound Galactic Empire only had about 10^18 people:
Isaac Asimov grew up in NYNY. From inside the City, the city seem to go on forever. Without doing the math, he gave Trantor a population of 4*10^10 in the very 1st FoundationStory. He immediately got letter explaining that that the city of Trantor only has rural population-density. If he could do it all over again, he would give Trantor a population of 10^15.
He gave 2.5*10^7 as the number of inhabited worlds in the Milky Way. The trouble is that astronomers in the 1930s had trouble estimating the number of stars in the Milky way because they were embedded in it. He would have put the number of planets at 10^10 if he could do it again. Basically, every other K-Type, G-Type, and F-Type Main-Sequence dwarf has an inhabited world.
When he wrote Caves of Steel, set on Earth thousands of years in the future, he corrected the errors by making domed megacities holding tens of millions of people. These cities cover between 1%-2% of the area of Earth, with most of Earthing being left to wilderness, agriculture, mining, manufacture, et al. The total population of Earth was 10^10 in Caves ofSteel. If The Galactic Empire would have 10^10 Earth of the Cavers of Steel, its population would be 10^20, still less than a DysonSwarm.
A planet is far more endandanger from pandemics than a DysonSwarm because ever O'NeillCylinder is an island in space, cut of from its neighbors.
5507399 I'm starting to think that maybe you should be the one to build the Dyson Sphere. You've got the best numbers.
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The numbers are not hard:
We support 10^10 people on 10^13 Watts (a K.7 Civilization). with 10^26 watts (a K2 Civilization), we should be able to support 10^23 people or 10^13 times more people.
5507428 It's like there's a giant ocean planet out there. But in it, there lives just one small fish. Such a waste of an ocean. Such a tragedy that even that fishy will find itself extinct one day. The ocean should be teeming with fish for as long as it exists.
Really wish you had actually left lmao.
5647501 But you need people like me around else you might turn into Vladimir Putin.