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Scavenge101 t1_jdvsnaf wrote

Reply to comment by Kahoots113 in Would building a Dyson sphere be worth it: We ran the numbers. by filosoful

A single stupidly rich person isn't stupidly rich enough to enable asteroid mining. One of the big 3 countries needs to do it for it to be possible. Takes a lot more than just spaceships and fuel.

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Frenchtoad t1_jdwpjnk wrote

35 countries are joined for the ITER project for nuclear fusion. We'd need a complete union of all humanity to ever hope achieving a dyson sphere. It's certainly not for our current mindset, focused on easy, quick and dirty money, instead of survival.

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