TIL: About Dyson Sphere. A hypothetical megastructure we would put around a star to absorb the energy being sent in space
TIL: About Dyson Sphere. A hypothetical megastructure we would put around a star to absorb the energy being sent in space
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.
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Be carful with those. You may block the light of constellation aliens use and really piss then off.
excellent stellaris reference! ;)
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
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.
You're assuming they are not part of the deep state already!
Just put them in the Synaptic Lathe and forget about them.
Certainly humane than livestock.
"People of Earth, I am Lrrr of the planet Omicron Persei 8."
That's a good one i forgot about. I'm shocked they didn't go all in and think that was a sign to purge everyone born under that star but that's not that kind of show.