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Adastehc t1_ixunbds wrote

Dyson swarms should be possible on paper. Dyson swarm when!?

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JDublinson t1_ixuppog wrote

I recently completed constructing a Dyson swarm, only took 50 hours or so, I don’t see what the big deal is. Let’s get it done

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kimjasony t1_ixv44vi wrote

I get about 4GW with swarms but my efficiency with photon generation is so low that my antimatter cells are not being produced fast enough. I eventually have to manually feed a few hydrogen fuel power plants to kickstart my planet. I'm limping to complete the sphere.

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ThisFreaknGuy t1_ixxhnc4 wrote

I like your funny words, magic man

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kimjasony t1_iy0aupp wrote

/r/dysonsphereprogram is great if you enjoy games like Factorio, Satisfactory and such. It is in early access. They added a lot of QoL, and biggest one is probably blueprints. You can cut paste people's saved blueprints into your came and it just works. Saves so much time. And it's also very pretty to look at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEpTaXRIhE0

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Whereismytardis t1_iy2z9nz wrote

The real key in my experience is to build the sphere around an o type star big enough to encompass the innermost planet and the your photon generation is always active for the receivers on that planet. One planet around an average otype star can do 400ish gigawatts of photon output. From there you'll never have a power problem unless it's rod subcomponent related (not photons though obviously). This methodology got me to 150 antimatter rods a minute before my framerates started to crumble

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2Punx2Furious t1_ixww3hs wrote

Which game?

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JDublinson t1_ixwxvjw wrote

Dyson Sphere Program. It’s a good one if you like factory building games — not quite as perfect as Factorio is but it’s really good.

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stonerdad999 t1_ixuzsgq wrote

Thanks for sharing this

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DukeOfGeek t1_ixvmyac wrote

So I'm thinking about a possibility to the great filter that involves Von Neuman probes which you can see about here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHMIv_zAbrM&t=363s

The possibility I'm considering is that this network got made a long long time ago and it's basically everywhere. So what happens is that well before an emerging civilization can send out an interstellar colony it gets advanced enough to capture, dismantle and capture the data that's on the network. The probe network might even cooperate with this in some way. Once you get access to the probe network it's already full of all the things you might have discovered by exploring. Want an up close of the Pillars of Creation? The probe network has been studying that for millions of years. Network is also full of information from other civilizations, many of which no longer exist. You can also see that most habitable planets are already taken so you just end up improving your own system with all the new tech you just got and putting all your own knowledge on the system. So very few civilizations bother to go out very far into space, you already learned what's out there and how to optimize what's easily available nearby. Anyway just a thought.

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