Re: (TFT) Space travel - galaxy sized dyson spheres.

[PvK <pvk@oz.net>]

Denis! I think you may have hit upon a possible theory for how and why a civilization might actually construct something which was such a literally astronomically impractical and inefficient use of genius and resources! If the society were so twisted and self-tormenting as the more stifling parts of our own work culture, bored workers might work out the solutions. Perhaps the work could be carried out by retired robot equipment generated by a space-age industry generating artificial built-in obsolescence. The bored worker gestalt could program in artificial malfunctions which would clear once shipped to an equipment dump, which might happen to be at the star system where the project was underway. The sphere might even be planned as an eventual self-sustaining off-grid retirement community.

--- denisdesharnais@gmail.com wrote:

From: Denis DesHarnais <denisdesharnais@gmail.com>
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: Re: (TFT) Space travel - galaxy sized dyson spheres.
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 08:43:16 -0500

Wait, you're on to something there!  Instead of complaining about my boring
job, I could be working on ... I've said too much already.

Ignore the man on the ladder with the large sheets of plexiglass.
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:09 PM, PvK <pvk@oz.net> wrote:

> Yes, the Wiki is correct that gravitational forces would cancel. I think
> you are right about the unevenness of solar wind, so there would need to be
> a way to balance all that. But if you can get the darn thing there in the
> first place, then I doubt that station-keeping is going to be a tough
> engineering problem for someone who has solved the construction problem.
> Not to mention for someone who is so bored that they are doing something so
> inefficient as making a Dyson Sphere.
...
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