@[email protected] to [Dormant] moved to [email protected]@lemmy.world • 1 year agoAstronomers are on the Hunt for Dyson Sphereswww.universetoday.comexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1222cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareteftlinkfedilink2•1 year agoSpheres aren’t unstable around a star. Rings are unstable in orbit around a star.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoIf a civilization can figure out how to make one, they can keep it from sliding into the sun!
minus-squareTransporter Room 3linkfedilink3•1 year agoJust glue 3 of them together, that’ll make them 300% stable!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•1 year agoLike how if they figure out how to build an 833’ long ship they can keep it from immediately hitting an iceberg and sinking?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoYou know, that’s a really good point, but this is on such a bigger scale and if it’s a known problem today, I think they would know about it by the time they can build something like that.
minus-squareIoughttamowlinkfedilink4•1 year agoOr the most advanced starship in the galaxy not having a Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 year agoDamn, imagine the number of lifeboats you’d need to evacuate a Dyson Sphere?
But it’s unstable.
So is a Dyson sphere?
Spheres aren’t unstable around a star. Rings are unstable in orbit around a star.
If a civilization can figure out how to make one, they can keep it from sliding into the sun!
Just glue 3 of them together, that’ll make them 300% stable!
220, 221. Whatever it takes!
Like how if they figure out how to build an 833’ long ship they can keep it from immediately hitting an iceberg and sinking?
You know, that’s a really good point, but this is on such a bigger scale and if it’s a known problem today, I think they would know about it by the time they can build something like that.
Or the most advanced starship in the galaxy not having a Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure
We could just ask the mice.
Damn, imagine the number of lifeboats you’d need to evacuate a Dyson Sphere?
Where you gonna go?
At least we know what the band will be playing