Reading the "endgame" section, and I feel that some serious thought ahould be given to what the replicator colony will do after it has finished dismantling Mercury.
thot_experiment
If someone can't be bothered to write it I can't be bothered to read it.
uticus
> The shell is not merely a strength structure; it is a fixed logistics skeleton. Its purpose is to provide: dense distributed launch/capture corridors large-scale routing geometry attachment points for high-temperature radiator fields buffering volume for material and coolant traffic alignment and vibration-control structure for the mature transport system...
Roger that
rafterydj
This reads like an LLM plagiarizing this video from Kurzgesagt:
Bootstrapping an electronics supply chain on another planet seems harder than building the dyson swarm itself.
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andrewflnr
> The mirror fleet does not increase the total power available to the project; Mercury still intercepts only a fixed amount of sunlight.
I think I must be missing something important, because this doesn't make sense to me. If you put your mirrors in orbits where they don't block the dayside surface (sun-synchronous?), then they increase the total surface area receiving solar radiation.
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nacozarina
this seems to ignore the fact that Mercury is way too deep in Sol’s gravity well to be useful, all it’s looking at is Mercury mass.
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baddash
1-6 years can't be realistic can it? does someone have a better estimate of how long this would take?
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jmount
I encourage Dyson sphere enthusiasts to listen to the interesting argument that Dyson spheres they may be deliberately designed as an "sounds neat but is impossible" filter joke, ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzEX1TPBFM .
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ossicones
Stuff like this is why I read HN
pndy
What about orbital mechanics? Wouldn't that create issues with/for objects in the solar system?
trebligdivad
Does Mercury not have any useful radioactive material to provide more power?
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alhazrod
Please someone, send grey goo to Mercury.
LoganDark
I am such a sucker for technical Aspie writing. I've seen it mistaken for LLM output many times but this is not that.
Reading the "endgame" section, and I feel that some serious thought ahould be given to what the replicator colony will do after it has finished dismantling Mercury.
If someone can't be bothered to write it I can't be bothered to read it.
> The shell is not merely a strength structure; it is a fixed logistics skeleton. Its purpose is to provide: dense distributed launch/capture corridors large-scale routing geometry attachment points for high-temperature radiator fields buffering volume for material and coolant traffic alignment and vibration-control structure for the mature transport system...
Roger that
This reads like an LLM plagiarizing this video from Kurzgesagt:
https://youtu.be/pP44EPBMb8A?si=fSwWPOCnCsC1QEny
Bootstrapping an electronics supply chain on another planet seems harder than building the dyson swarm itself.
> The mirror fleet does not increase the total power available to the project; Mercury still intercepts only a fixed amount of sunlight.
I think I must be missing something important, because this doesn't make sense to me. If you put your mirrors in orbits where they don't block the dayside surface (sun-synchronous?), then they increase the total surface area receiving solar radiation.
this seems to ignore the fact that Mercury is way too deep in Sol’s gravity well to be useful, all it’s looking at is Mercury mass.
1-6 years can't be realistic can it? does someone have a better estimate of how long this would take?
I encourage Dyson sphere enthusiasts to listen to the interesting argument that Dyson spheres they may be deliberately designed as an "sounds neat but is impossible" filter joke, ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzEX1TPBFM .
Stuff like this is why I read HN
What about orbital mechanics? Wouldn't that create issues with/for objects in the solar system?
Does Mercury not have any useful radioactive material to provide more power?
Please someone, send grey goo to Mercury.
I am such a sucker for technical Aspie writing. I've seen it mistaken for LLM output many times but this is not that.