Could Humans Actually Build A Dyson Sphere? | Answers With Joe



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Dyson spheres come up a lot in science fiction, as well as in discussions around alien civilizations. But what are they? Do they exist and the even bigger question… Could humans ever make one?

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LINKS LINKS LINKS:
https://earthsky.org/space/wow-signal-2020-blc1-proxima-centauri

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/132/3421/252.2

https://www.livescience.com/voyager-2-detects-heliopause-plasma-shield.html

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/04/dyson-bubbles-statites-molecular.html

https://www.stuyspec.com/science/the-dyson-swarm-humanity-s-future

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a11098/dyson-sphere/

https://www.space.com/alien-megastructure-mysteriously-dimming-stars.html

Kurzgesagt’s video on Dyson Spheres: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A

Isaac Arthur’s video on Dyson Spheres: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlmKejRSVd8

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31 thoughts on “Could Humans Actually Build A Dyson Sphere? | Answers With Joe”

  1. No.
    Have to dismantle the entire solar system.
    Need magic technologies.
    (antigravity which does not exist as gravity is an effect of space curvature and not a fundamental force.
    Centrifugal effect simulated gravity outside a spaceship sized environment is impractical for many reasons)

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  2. we should start by putting the earth in a plastic bag. If you use 1/1000 of an inch thick plastic at a height of say 100 miles… The atmosphere would hold it up. A lot easier. But give a calculation as to how much plastic that is. It's about pi cubic miles of plastic. So basically mount Everest… Elastic… 1/1000 of an inch thick.

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  4. I imagine the energy put into a Dynson swarm or sphere would negate what you would get back before the species would figure something else out. Also, the change in gravity while consuming planetary masses would surely create chaos in the solar system. Instead, would it be more feasible to construct a self repairing membrane that can adjust its opacity as needed to allow the Earth to warm and cool on demand. Machines tasked as custodians in a mesh network would maintain and harvest energy on one side and then using microwave or lasers could beam energy to the moon where we house facilities like rail guns for sending packages to other planets or energy in safe ways to Earth all part of a massive collaborative mesh network of energy. The membrane could slowly grow and allow space debra through or be caught. A sort of space web if you will. As hundreds of years pass we would use the growing storage of energy to free up invention of long term mega vessels that could carry machines to the next solar system where they could then plunder resources more quickly without worry of harm coming to our home system. Building new artificial worlds that bridge machine and biological systems. Advances in one system helping the other but evolution of one system would be different than the other yet linked. Am i still typing? Are you still reading? Time for bed. 🤣

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  5. Our future is cold, not warm so I dont know why we would want to make it even colder. Research what cold water melt causes and has over and over and over many times during earth's "recent" history. Burr!!

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  6. "Uploaded our minds to computers"
    How would we be human anymore?
    How brilliant is it to speculate what humans may do and what goals it will pursue a thousand years from now if 200 years from now we will be a bunch of conscious operating systems?
    How does such a consciousness lie to itself about the need to keep the limitations , obligations and morals that it no longer needs if it's no longer human or better yet an organic sentient being?

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  7. what if we don't have to destroy the earth eventually. what if we make it a giant space ship that can freely move around and live by itself to seek out a new star when this one eventually dies

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