[How to Build a Dyson Sphere – The Ultimate Megastructure] (Viewer #4,078,537)
I’m both saddened and intrigued to hear that ST:TNG got Dyson Spheres wrong.
[How to Build a Dyson Sphere – The Ultimate Megastructure] (Viewer #4,078,537)
I’m both saddened and intrigued to hear that ST:TNG got Dyson Spheres wrong.
How to build a Dyson Sphere:
Step 1: Transform all matter in a solar system into your building material (note: use your matter transmuter for this step, scrith works well for rings but might not be strong enough for a sphere)
Step 2: Install your gravity generators.
After that, it’s just engineering.
How much of Mercury can we strip mine before its orbit changes and it goes crashing into the sun?
30 seconds in he points to renewables as an improvement over atomic energy, without pointing out the fact that commercial windmills require more energy to build than they will produce over their lifetime. Likewise, he puts the Dyson sphere inside the orbit of Venus. The vast array of solar panels in orbit around the sun would have to reduce the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth. We would only have to lose a couple percent to cause an ice age. Not to mention environmentalists rioting over the destruction of Mercury.