A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output. The concept is a thought experiment that attempts to imagine how a spacefaring civilization would meet its energy requirements once those requirements exceed what can be generated from the home planet’s resources alone. Because only a tiny fraction of a star’s energy emissions reaches the surface of any orbiting planet, building structures encircling a star would enable a civilization to harvest far more energy.
There is also the Matrioshka brain, a hypothetical supercomputer powered by a Dyson sphere
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.
Just put them in the Synaptic Lathe and forget about them.
“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. 😁
With a bottle of green.
Classic episode; one of my favorite
Wait until you learn about the even bigger ones:
I’ve played that Stellaris mod, pretty sweet
A pinnacle of science, a wonder of engineering, that we will never get to see in our lifetimes. Instead, we get to see Taiwan get nuked or something, I don’t know. I don’t follow the news much, I only know I’m disappointed.
If we could just speed up cryogenics or hibernation technology…
Any civilization that needs that much energy would have long ago exhausted their planet’s resources and gone extinct.
I don’t remember the math, but you lose return on investment after a certain percentage of coverage.
Dyson Grids are the future!!! 😜
The other “benefit” to the sphere is blacking out a star. Other life, should it exist, is less likely to find the structure.
Wouldn’t we cook in the end if you don’t let out residual em?
Ouh! Love me some “Dark Forest hypothesis” existential dread 😁
Or DYson Bubbles, which would also “cover” enough “surface” to be viable without needing god knows how many planets’ worth of material
Okay but where does the invisible hand dryer go?
If you think it’s cool, you should try the game :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Program/
That’s crazy that they made this hypothesis based on a steam game
Is dark matter just Dyson sphered stars?
My initial reaction: “What? No.”
After thinking a little bit: “hmm I guess you could say that…”
You might like this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A about how to build one from Earth.
Maybe make it a dyson fan since the sphere would only work during the daytime. In polar areas that means half a year without any energy production!
Whereas there is always solar wind.
Kind of looks like an atom
