Who would have been thoughtful enough to leave a present for metal alloy in the rings of Jupiter? You've failed to convince me.
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Poll Dryson Array vs. Dyson Sphere
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I think he's trying to go down to posterity...
I look forward to reading about the fine details of your design in a peer-reviewed journal.
If your engineering is sufficiently advanced to create mega-structures, you've already solved the safety issues.
Sounds like famous last words. Earthmen taught the Kzin not to laugh at their primitive starship.
Small steps, younglings... You can barely get into Earth orbit nowadays.
Besides there would not be any purpose to a Dyson Swarm as you could not build a community around it like you could build a community around a Dryson TEG Array. Why would humans build something around the sun that a community could not build close to and then branch out from there?
Early humans lived around water holes and were nomadic. Once they began to evolve they used trees and rocks and the mud around the water hole to promote their growth. Where are the trees and rocks and mud close to the sun that the cave man does not have to fear the T-rex at?
Early humans lived around water holes and were nomadic. Once they began to evolve they used trees and rocks and the mud around the water hole to promote their growth. Where are the trees and rocks and mud close to the sun that the cave man does not have to fear the T-rex at?
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But didn't you know? The reason the famous illustration showing hominid evolution depicts our ancient ancestors hunched over is because of the tunnels they had to live in to avoid the dinosaurs! It's in The World According to Dryson. Pick up your copy today.
Or maybe the reason why our ancient ancestors were hunched over is based on the Baby Syndrome where over millions of years humans evolved from a hunched over baby position to a full grown walking adult.
Explain it for Metryq.
The other issue with a Dyson Swarm not be viable is that that ships coming and going from the array would have to deal with increased radiation as they approached the sun. Heat shields the size of the one seen on the Icarus II from the movie Sunshine for reference.
Which is the main reason that an advanced space faring society would never build a large energy harvesting structure around their sun. There are to many variables that could go wrong such as large solar flares destroying the Dyson Swarm or a section of it at least that would effect the rest of the Swarm and the civilization that depended on it.
If you are a Type 2 or 3 civilization and have reached the Singularity I think that such a civilization would have found a way to use the Singularity to generate electrical power rendering a Dyson Swarm rather obsolete.
I don't think you really understand what the Singularity is in this context. A technological singularity isn't the same thing as a space-time singularity predicted to lie at the heart of a black hole.
