Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Are Dyson Spheres Actually Possible?" video.

  1. ​ @erwinlommer197 It's more like a quadrillion steam engines set up around a source of infinite coal VS letting the coal go to waste.
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  2. You can build a short O Neil cylinder and gradually make it longer.
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  3. No, it would not be easier to rewrite the fundamental laws of the cosmos than it would be to build a shell around the sun, lol.
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  4. Bcs it's easier to build, takes less damage, always faces the sun, no one is living there currently or using the space... I really don't understand why you think what you wrote made any sense whatsoever.
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  5. All other projects also benefit from not pissing away nearly 100% of the available energy.
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  6. That's nonsense and would be deeply dystopian. Do you think the best possible world contains only 10 people, who live lives that are barely worth living? That's basically what you're idealizing. Tons of problems aren't solved and unimaginable amounts of amazing lives not lived when there is no "growth". Being against "growth" is just like being for the destruction of nearly everything that is. Imagine a galaxy of a sextillion unimaginably happy entities. And you come in and murder nearly all of them and make the lives of the rest worse.
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  7. That's completely wrong. Telecommunication, streets networks, trading with ships, etc all required far, far more coordination and standardization.
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  8. Why would you piss away nearly 100% of the available energy?
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  9. ​ @bastiaan7777777 In my head all of you guys flunked out of high school maths and that's why you think your intuitions and prejudices trump calculations.
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  10. The sphere IS your home. It can contain millions of huge space habitats at different distances to the star.
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  11. It's funny how people, who flunked out of highschool maths, think speculative engineering projects are ridiculous, while physics PhDs take them seriously.
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  12. You're unnecessarily high balling the mass required and still come up with a number that's easily available in the solar system, lol.
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  13. ​ @beccafranklin6683 We have like a thousand ongoing projects that require far more collaboration and standardization than a Dyson Sphere.
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  14. He writes under a video explaining in detail how they're possible to build.
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  15. It's only the dumbasses in the "masses" that turn their nose at speculative engineering projects.
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  16. By that line of argument, why are there super computers? Why are there more computers in the world than just one single smartphone? After all two smartphones communicating is slower...
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  17. It's strictly cheaper to build whatever habitat in space than on a planet. You have to make or find a planet with the exact dimensions and mass you want, change the entire surface, make an artificial atmosphere, move it to the right distance to the star, etc. Meanwhile in a rotating habitat, you can cheaply configure everything however you want it. Day length, year length, gravity, atmospheric composition, weather, etc.
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  18. Nothing is 100% efficient. If no light escaped at all, that would simply lead to equilibrium within the shell or swarm and there would be no useful energy. If a water wheel had 100% resistance, it couldn't harness any power.
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  19. ​ @micahlovejoy81 You're willing to give up on every political and social issue to the people you disagree with the most? You think none of that matters at all?
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  20. Yes and building water pipes means you die of thirst,because you're hiding the water behind metal.
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  21. ​ @archimedesnation You're talking pure nonsense. Effective at what? You're pissing away nearly all available energy. After "terraforming", you're still pissing away nearly all available energy. Also to do such a vanity project would be much easier if you had more energy... It's like saying "instead of going to work, it's much more effective to buy a villa".
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  22. That's way harder to build. It's the kind of vanity project you can afford when you already have most of a Dyson Sphere.
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  23. You're postulating that every advanced civilization is completely nuts in precisely the same way. That's like saying that every advanced civilization becomes Muslim.
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  24. A structure around a star doesn't have to orbit it, it can stay in place due to radiation pressure,ie a statite.
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  25. That's like ignoring the gigantic river going through the land and setting up a water wheel in your toilet to spin when you piss on it.
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  26. ​ @stephenjohnhopkinson8096 That's stupid in so many ways. If you had the black holes to "gravitationally lense" all of the photons of a star into one place, you could generate energy much more efficiently with the black holes themselves. And focused on one spot, the energy is useless. How do you run anything on one absurdly hot spot? You don't understand how energy works and you have no grasp on scale.
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  27. That's like saying that it's more likely you're gonna build an attic than a house.
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  28. ​ @mugin11223344 Yes, it is. You wouldn't build space habitats and no way to generate power. Rather space habitats would be part of the Dyson Sphere that contains solar collectors, computers and habitats.
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  29. Nope, there's less stuff that breaks down the sphere than there are processes breaking down infrastructure here on earth.
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  30. ​ @imaginairydotcom What you're saying is essentially that letting the photons escape unused can be more "efficient" than capturing them. That's complete nonsense. In order to use the energy of the photons coming from the sun, there has to be something in the way of those photons in some sense.
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  31. 1) No. 2) That would make ot even easier to build the Dyson Sphere for even more energy.
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  32. You'll remain ignorant forever because you exclusively reason in analogy.
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  33. Your gut feeling trump calculations, huh?
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  34. I think people like you are trying to cope by putting others down. Every time others achieve something, it becomes unremarkable. And everything they strive to achieve is impossible.
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  35. People built global networks of telecommunication and roads. A Dyson Sphere wouldn't even need common standards besides agreed upon orbits. We have individual governments and private entities operating satellites.
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  36. What's the point of going to other stars if you're not using any stars?
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