10 Astroengineering Projects We May Some Day Try

An exploration of Ten astro engineering projects we may some day try, or that someone else in the universe may already have built.
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Disassembling Mercury in order to drive the solar system where we want it to go? Pretty fitting for the patron god of travelers. Should call it The Hermes Thruster.

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Or Dyson Sphere Program?

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How is the astrophysics thing working out now that it's two years later? Any exciting developments?

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Can't fault you for optimism. I'm in the "Mars is Death" camp myself.

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SIM hypothesis doesn't answer the "why" question, it just bumps it up to the next turtle.

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I'd say it potentially even increases the amount of "Why?" questions.

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Re: Simulated universes requiring “more computing power than the laws of the universe allow” - that may certainly be true for *this* universe. But if ours is an engineered universe with an engineered reality, why would that impossible computing power not be merely one parameter set forth by the external/creator universe? And that external universe is one that we can never map from within; we can’t even prove the internal consistencies of our own (Godel’s incompleteness theorem and whatnot). Lab Universe creates this reality, but applies controls such that we (the created guinea pig universe) cannot likewise create our own.

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Initially I read the title as: "10 astroengineering project you may try DIY"

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Boy I sure do love making a Dyson Sphere in the backyard with some friends. Good times.

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Show of hands, how many people heard "Alderson Disk," and thought "Terry Pratchett?"

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I kept mishearing Alderson as Alderaan. I was starting to think i had forgotten something about Star Wars

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I thought Charles Stross ’Missile Gap’.

[@O5680]

Cool! I'll try to do one of these things after breakfast tomorrow.

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Minor detail, both gravity and solar pressure drop off with distance squared, so a statite’s position doesn’t matter for a Shkadov thruster, only its mass divided by surface area :D

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Love the idea of an Alderson Disk but i don’t think it would ever be realised. For any civilisation able to complete the structure there would surely be more practical habitation solutions.

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I'd love to know what kind of resolution you could get with a solar system sized distributed aperture telescope. How big would it have to be to read a newspaper on an exoplanet?

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Or use the supermassive black hole in the Galactic core as a gravitational lens.

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..."dissassembling Jupiter" :)

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Hello futurist and science fiction author John Michael Godier, Thank you for the video. A couple of others techno signatures that are comparatively more near term are high powered maser or laser highways, for interplanetary travel within the system and detection of short half life elements, from nuclear salt water rockets , just before we work out fusion drives (which is always 20 years away , I promise :) Also , I'm not sure where the idea that you need a powerful CPU to simulate a universe comes from? Even our own can be simulated by anything we have today. Sure, one unit of planck time might take a million years of computation , however the simulated universe isn't going to know that. The only thing you need is time. Just ask deep thought.

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Another wonderful video! One thing I don’t understand though is why the idea of the universe not ‘having a why’ is so disconcerting to many.

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Would we theoretically be able to genetically design creatures that could live on a planet other than earth, to create a type of utopia based around fabricated nature

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[@Benzinilinguine]

Ok, but how would we use the "brakes" on a Shkadov Thruster? Turn the disk the exact other direction very quickly?

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Yes

[@QT5656]

And how do you turn? It seems like you would need thrusters pointing in different directions that you don't use all at once.

[@NullHand]

Like the Dyson Sphere, I don’t think it is meant to be a solid structure, but a swarm of satellites. Think quadrillions of highly reflective solar sails changing their angle to form a giant spherical fresnel lens. The star is actually tugged along by the accumulated gravitational pull of all these satellites. To change direction, you just change the location in the sky they are all bouncing the light to.

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Ooo and it's a long one! Thanks John!

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Dyson spheres around artificial stars can be small enough to not use up more resources than the entire planets has in it's construction

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I really think that we should not even try to terraform or colonize other planet, but just build space habitat/station and simulate earth gravity on it

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Speaking of astroneering, a new game called Dyson Sphere Program came out recently. I suggest everyone check it out, it's amazing.

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I like the idea of living on a giant halo ring

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I believe that the 3 types of civilizations involve harnessing the power at the center of each of the 3; planet core, star core, supermassive black hole singularity.

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The way we see matter will change as we understand conciousness better

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This is a real classico JMG topic for a video, great stuff. Can’t believe they couldn’t name that interstellar space sausage Rama, but hey the Hawaiians should get a shoutout too.

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You didn't directly imply this, but it's on my mind: Ancestor simulations are a cheat answer to "why the universe?" They just move the question out 1 level from why *our* universe to why *that* universe.

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I'm not sure if there already was an episode about it: "GRB 060614 - a white hole candidate". Might be interesting!

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Another reason the Habitat Ring would not be wise because of Asteroids and Comets unless you have something that would repel it. Maybe Anti-Gravitational or something revolving around it every certain distance of the Habitat Ring with a gravitational pull to repel the comet or asteroid away from the Habitat Ring and the Habitat Ring would need a gravitational pull that will keep them in place. We have the moon. Also we wouldn't have night and day. We could have one or the other and it would have to rotate around the star to keep it in place.

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So relaxing

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I'm not sure if this would make any sense or even matter in space, but I've had this in mind for awhile now. There's this thing called the leaning tower of lire and pretty much it allows you to build an infinite tower but you have to stack the parts in a certain way and I was wondering if future megastructures may be built like that or at least certain structural parts will use that

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Interesting video. Thanks!