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1. gok+h4[view] [source] 2026-02-02 22:06:22
>>g-mork+(OP)
> it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power

We currently make around 1 TW of photovoltaic cells per year, globally. The proposal here is to launch that much to space every 9 hours, complete with attached computers, continuously, from the moon.

edit: Also, this would capture a very trivial percentage of the Sun's power. A few trillionths per year.

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2. jupp0r+To[view] [source] 2026-02-02 23:24:05
>>gok+h4
See Dyson Sphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
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3. chr15m+hy[view] [source] 2026-02-03 00:08:10
>>jupp0r+To
Dyson's paper was literally written in jest.
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4. Bandit+wA[view] [source] 2026-02-03 00:22:20
>>chr15m+hy
What do you mean?
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5. Rzor+WM[view] [source] 2026-02-03 01:44:52
>>Bandit+wA
>In an interview with Robert Wright in 2003, Dyson referred to his paper on the search for Dyson spheres as "a little joke" and commented that "you get to be famous only for the things you don't think are serious" [...]

To be fair, he later added this:

>in a later interview with students from The University of Edinburgh in 2018, he referred to the premise of the Dyson sphere as being "correct and uncontroversial".[13] In other interviews, while lamenting the naming of the object, Dyson commented that "the idea was a good one", and referred to his contribution to a paper on disassembling planets as a means of constructing one.

Sources are in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

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