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Dyson swarms are a far more practical idea than spheres and can be incrementally constructed. It's basically just a ton of satellites.
by api 10y ago
Dyson swarms are a far more practical idea than spheres and can be incrementally constructed. It's basically just a ton of satellites.
- Zardoz84 10y agoRing world
- api 10y agoNot orbitally stable, and shares many other issues with a Dyson sphere.
- mcv 10y agoA Dyson sphere _is_ a swarm. Though Jason Wright explains (in jasoncrawford's link) that a spherical swarm is very unlikely in this case. A ring swarm could work, though (he rates it as "unclear plausibility").