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filosoful OP t1_jdvkkdz wrote

The math behind making a star-encompassing megastructure

In 1960, visionary physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that an advanced alien civilization would someday quit fooling around with kindergarten-level stuff like wind turbines and nuclear reactors and finally go big, completely enclosing their home star to capture as much solar energy as they possibly could.

They would then go on to use that enormous amount of energy to mine bitcoin, make funny videos on social media, delve into the deepest mysteries of the Universe, and enjoy the bounties of their energy-rich civilization.

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Kahoots113 t1_jdvs4lw wrote

The way this is written it seems like Dyson specifically mentioned bitcoin and social media, in the 1960s....

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enzovrlrd t1_jdwsn4i wrote

WHAT IF

future humans decide to use such magnificent energy to build a social coin? or even a bitmedia?

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Plate_Of_Soup t1_jdxdh8n wrote

The sphere is just the first step, surely. After that, we have the energy of the heavenly bodies themselves to harness. The solar system is just a big gyroscope twiddling around forever and a day. Why not capture all of that

Eventually, we have to find some way to power all these stargates

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