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Have there been any studies about whether Dyson swarms harvesting under 0.1% of the star's output are detectable, especially if the designers want to minimize t
by psandersen 8y ago
Have there been any studies about whether Dyson swarms harvesting under 0.1% of the star's output are detectable, especially if the designers want to minimize the chance of detection?
I suspect that civilisations that make it to the Dyson swarm stage are on average a little biased towards environmentalism in order to survive past their terrestrial industrial stage.
Doesn't make sense to put a giant target on yourself until you can discount the dark forest hypothesis either, especially not when you've just beaten incredible odds to become a near-immortal truly space-faring civilisation.
- vladimirralev 8y agoOnce it is established there is a safe way to roam around and do construction logistics the dark forest hypothesis doesn't make much sense. A real advanced civilisation would have detectable honeypot decoy dyson spheres all over the place just as an intelligence gathering tool to see if anybody will actually come after them and with what.
- psandersen 8y agoIts an interesting question; if you're an aggressor and see a 'low tech' civilisation recklessly build an obvious Dyson sphere what probability do you put that its a honeypot from a real threat... and so on. I personally find the dark forest interesting not because I think it is likely but because even giving it a very small probability of being true would be enough for near immortal high tech civilisations to move very cautiously.