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The is intense. I've often thought about the Russian Venus lander. In the same vein I occasionally think about what could survive deep within the Earth. Of cour
by th0ma5 10y ago
The is intense. I've often thought about the Russian Venus lander. In the same vein I occasionally think about what could survive deep within the Earth. Of course I then immediately get tripped up wondering if any useful satellite could be made to work within the Sun, and that's where I realize I should just think about something else.
- mirimir 10y agoIn The Killing Star by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski, one group of survivors orbits a ship around the Sun, just below the chromosphere. There's also a story about "distilling antihydrogen" near the Sun, in Vernor Vinge's Marooned in Realtime.
- masklinn 10y agoDavid Brin's Uplift series had mechanised lifeforms "floating" on the sun to collect matter, and IIRC Sundiver has life forms floating in the chromosphere.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoAs I recall, Sundiver used a laser to beam away the accumulated heat into space faster than it was absorbed.
- mathgenius 10y agoBuilding a quantum computer often gets compared to building a (regular) computer that can operate inside the sun.
- marcosdumay 10y agoMeasured by log(hot_temperature/cold_temperature), we are actually much closer to the sun than to current quantum computers or even space.