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We don't really need a full swarm, at least not until we can use it to compute something useful. Even Mercury, the smallest planet, has enough raw material to b
by danarmak 10y ago
We don't really need a full swarm, at least not until we can use it to compute something useful. Even Mercury, the smallest planet, has enough raw material to build more space stations and power-gathering sats than we know what to do with at present.
If you had a partial Dyson swarm right now, what would you actually use it for?
- dghughes 10y agoAt least the basics of having shelter, food, and water. Maybe at some point we as a civilization could create matter from energy and then create atoms, then finally molecules of whatever we needed. We would also probably want to live long healthy lives maybe even transfer our minds into other bodies or devices. We aren't even a Type I civilization yet so there is lots of planning and inventing to do.
- Teever 10y agoI would use it to build and accelerate Von Neumann probes to colonize the Universe.