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Hot take: We're in the first stages of building our own Dyson sphere and therefore comets are only useful in the context of capturing them for that purpose. ;)
by aa-jv 6mo ago
Hot take: We're in the first stages of building our own Dyson sphere and therefore comets are only useful in the context of capturing them for that purpose.
;)
- ButlerianJihad 6mo agoThe idea of a Dyson sphere is that it's built around a star, in attempting to capture and utilize 100% of its energy output. So a shady shell around the Earth is not "the first stages" of a Dyson sphere, because our energy source is on the other side of the shell, and the orbits are completely different.
- aa-jv 5mo agoSure it is - we build a sphere around our planet to harvest every erg of energy hitting it, and then use that to create and flatten the disc that is one of many we'd need to build to construct the sphere ..