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[@funkmastaC]

That’s one way to get enough material for a Dyson sphere.

[@donanthebarbarian5177]

Yep... Also the speaker of the story sounds like the only alien amongst this galactic Union who actually grasped anything about humanity, after all we've never really let a problem stand in our way once a sufficient number of people are motivated to solve said problem.

[@admiralglenn2323]

@@donanthebarbarian5177 indeed, threaten and/or piss off enough humans and the problem will be crushed. The current global political climate shifts are a reflection of the latter.

[@jankubiak3218]

@@donanthebarbarian5177 Sounds like cannon fodder.

[@donanthebarbarian5177]

@@jankubiak3218 kinda but also not really. Once we decided that we needed to split the atom to gain a weapon strong enough to force an end to war we did it, once we decided that we needed to go to the moon in order to prove our superiority we did it. All of those tasks were ones that were previously thought either impossible or at least a few generations of technological improvement away, but we managed those tasks in less than a human lifetime once we truly set our minds to it.

[@pheonexking1218]

more likly a dyson swarm of floating solar plates, a sphere would block all light causeing terra/earth to freze

[@DisIzDaName]

Xenos: "Whatever, show-offs. Your home system is still on the arse end of the galaxy. " Humanity: "Not for long, scrub. Partial Dyson sphere / Shkadov thruster ftw, baby!"

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

Possibly with FTL drive for the whole thing attached.

[@alicorn3924]

@Tech Priestess Micaela about to extermanitus from 500ly away =)

[@Netherdan]

Behold our System Ship!

[@ThePrimalDen]

I mean, this solar system is part of a nebula, Dyson sphere with redundant inner and outer atmo barriers, Nova the Sun and use Solar fission FTL and common reactors, plasma and antimatter defence around a connecting hull. Pipelines and satellites establish a multidocking framework. System class would be atleast one Sun and probably two or more planets. 🤔 honestly, I could see turning the whole nebula into a black hole vessel

[@Darkwintre]

Find a system with a suitable sun then jump their planet into a suitable orbit, then rinse and repeat!

[@DepressedCrow]

1:21 "You can't fight nature John, you can't fight... Gravity." *falls backwards off cliff*

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

Ah, Admiral John Blake, Baen'thelas the Great Protector. One of the stubborn heros of worthwhile Space Operas.

[@xptaco2298]

@@JRRodriguez-nu7po What?

[@benjaminmarshall5071]

Stellaris one planet run in a nutshell.

[@WE_DONT_LIE]

Starts spamming habitats and terra forms mars

[@LuigiL75]

I really like this version of Humanity…😊

[@evernewb2073]

me too, though I'd argue they got around to the "death of culture" stage much earlier in the process (right around when they decided to fix things) and it was thus overlooked by the observer telling the story...frankly the idea of humans being so responsible and so bunkerminded at the same time feels more alien to me than most of the "alien" societies in fiction.

[@themagiccookie2614]

​@@evernewb2073Funny because culture is dying and reforming in a chaotic sludge right now haha...god I'm on my phone too much.

[@shinraset]

This is the kind of story that gives me hope for the future because rather than getting lost in our stubbornness and self imposed hatred of the other We were actually aware enough to say, "This is bad! We need to actually do something about this! All right let's do it then!" And then did it.

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

I assure you, the future of humanity is brighter than our eyes could currently see, but not all humans.

[@Chokah]

At the end of the story would we be not "Terran" but "Solarian"?

[@tylorbronson5349]

I’d say that Terran would be a human born on Earth (Terra) and a human born on Mars would be a Martian. My question is with the above logic, what would you call a human born on Venus?

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

From the sounds of it, "Terra" has been expanded a bit. Remember, in this story, instead of colonizing other planets, humanity stuck with Earth to the point of building a ring space station around it, and any extra terrestrial colonies were established purely for gathering the resources needed to fix Earth and expand human habitation there. So the Dyson sphere that humanity is apparently building may well be just considered an "add on expansion" to the planet itself, and thus be considered part of Earth. Kinda like how you start with a small house in, and then just keep adding more and more rooms and wings until the original house is only a tiny part of a vast sprawling complex covering the landscape.

[@Chokah]

@@tylorbronson5349 Venusian

[@radioactiveassassin5218]

As some cool scientist once sung: "I am the very model of scientist Solarian." Wait, something feels off...

[@JokieJesterE]

Aliens: Nooo we cant live on planets anymore because our bodys are too weak now D: Humans: haha dyson sphere go brrrrrrr

[@antimatter1075]

It would be cool if we made a solar engine to fly our system around the galaxy or to another after gathering and making the system into a living ship

[@kopkaljdsao]

Scientists have suggested a couple of ways to stear the Sun, but while theoretically possible it's low speed.

[@hansethetooly5421]

if you dont mind old scifi, check out "Cities in flight". by James Bisch

[@antimatter1075]

@@kopkaljdsao I know it is slow but it would still be cool to flex on everyone who can't even walk on a planet

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

@@antimatter1075 not to mention... an arc is an arc... while a whole solar system might be a bit more resource intensive etc ''mostly because you have to keep redundancies so its internal gravity well not can be affected or its separate pieces start become a danger to each other ;)'' ....even if slow ,its sort of a ultimate tactical asset to just be able to take a while chunk of your civilization.. one capable to forge whole new fleets and breed entire legions in a day so to speak.. and just ,give anything over running the local galaxy your in the finger if need be XD

[@TheRazaah]

Wouldnt any gravity well strong enough to rival our suns kind of rip apart our system if we get to close tho ? The moment we lose a planet everything changes and stuff begins to move in different ways, no ? /EDIT: It is concerning the other way around too. What if we pick up more planets. That also changes things. What if another sun comes in and collides with our sun or they form a twin star formation. We wouldnt be in the goldilocks zone anymore and suddenly earth burns. A solarsystem "living ship" might be a romantic thought of sorts but there is so much shit that could just go wrong with no way to prevent it either.

[@scotteggert9820]

So we humans decided to build a Dyson sphere. Well, that will be an interesting look. as we will probably build it between Earth and Mars. Three planets inside the sphere will make for an interesting sky.

[@Inquisitor-Yog-Sothoth]

Or the whole system, we did break down 27 star systems worth of materials.

[@scotteggert9820]

@@Inquisitor-Yog-Sothoth That is something we would do, isn't it.

[@howlofwinter8264]

@@scotteggert9820 yeah no we probably would

[@Netherdan]

@@scotteggert9820 and then we would take the System for a ride. All of it.

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

It would best be built in Earth orbit and start as a halo than a sphere.

[@serpentinious7745]

This would make a great prequel to the W.O.O.P.S. (World Obliteration Obfuscation for the Preservation of Species) story. (I think I'm getting the name of the story wrong because I can't find it anywhere now, though I'm sure Net Narrator or Agro Squirrel did a vid on it)

[@farhadwardak4707]

We stole their planets…*to make a Dyson sphere*

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

Humanity no longer divided but unified in purpose to build a better world for future generations? The narrator got it wrong; human cultures DID change!

[@chemplay866]

I mean they fucked the Earth first and then needed to fix it.

[@slimeinabox]

Every time I find this story is wish so HARD that stellaris had planet harvesting.

[@MaciejowPL]

Gigastructural Engineering has and not only 1 way, it has multiple and even different for different planet types

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

Another excellent story, thank you. The path between stubbornness and reason is narrow and hard. The riches at the end, money, knowledge and most of all respect from not only others but yourself is immense. I'm 65yo, barely out of infancy for an immortal, but already I'm satisfied. I'm excited for my third age to begin.

[@robertcartledge826]

GAAHHH!! Left us with blue balls on this one! Would have loved to see humanity showing off its newly built Dyson Sphere at least!

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

Nah, it was clear enough. Besides, humanity as portrayed here doesn't seem interested in showing off; merely doing what they're told can't be done.

[@Netherdan]

Finally a story that makes sense humans being overpowered both physically and technologically

[@Bigbadredg14nt]

This was a little different then most. I rather like it. Made me think of a bit of news i got about a game. All the character models were embroidered then scanned into the game. The reason the creator did it? Cause no one else had done it. HFY at its finest.

[@Kidozy]

We built a Dyson Sphere

[@wyatthermens2866]

Hay anyone else hear about how the fusion reaction had another successful test fire? What’s most impressive about it is that apparently it broke one of the biggest rules of thermodynamics that stated that something couldn’t produce more energy than it was given. If we keep at it this will mark a new golden age of development

[@jakevex4198]

So they're going to be surprised when they find out we're going to Nuke the Sun

[@themagiccookie2614]

This is a good picturisation of what our grandkids grandkid will live through. Our sins now will have consequences, but humanity loves this world too much to lose it, but it barely won't. Pollution, natural disasters, solar flares, atmospheric distabilisation we got much to learn before understanding just how well we got it now.

[@alexanderrosario8569]

You hear spacers seeing a star dimming after humanity be collecting lots of materials? Brudda we about to become masters of stars

[@pflernak]

Oh were just building a shellworld around our Sun

[@Rokr83]

the thing with dyson spheres is , you do not have a night sky , it will never be really dark

[@radioactiveassassin5218]

So, we gonna.....What? Fuel the sun to last another few million years?

[@MaciejowPL]

Well, to increase lifespan of sun we would need to just harvest some of it and to not make Earth freeze we would need to pump some Hydrogen back into it, but looking at the tech in this story it looks like they could have just harvested Sun for Helium, use it's heat to make He3 and pump more Hydrogen back in to make more Helium-3

[@TheSurvivor637]

@@MaciejowPLso we’re refilling the sun like one would refill a gas tank.

[@Hopalongtom]

Doesn't really sound like Humanity, but a fun alternative.

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

the only part that isnt us is we actually gave enough of a shit to save this planet

[@xenialafleur]

@@gabrielsfilms2086 If the Earth's in bad enough shape that we're living in domes and underground, we might actually start to give a damn. Maybe.

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

@@xenialafleur kzbin.info/www/bejne/mn_RoI19m6qopbc&ab_channel=EverythingQuotes

[@draxomega]

@@gabrielsfilms2086 a lot of people already care, but there those who have the wool pulled over their eyes by groups like Green Peace and blame countries that have been trying to clean-up while simultaneously praise countries that are the worst offenders.

[@nocontext9635]

@@xenialafleur fr tho, there's always that one guy that has insane plan to revive the planet

[@treyriver5676]

First a ring. Then a sphere

[@brianlips8346]

Thanks for the story 😊🙂

[@seanrobert9661]

[documented contact]

[@Pelasmo]

imagine we aren't building a dyson sphere but making the entirety of our solar system into one gianormous Planet. or of course its just the dyson sphere.

[@jofknoll]

so were just missing the space ships,come on elon pull your finger out

[@GentlePunch4U]

Humanity survived and then thriven by playing tall

[@keithvernonlewis9403]

There are four words in the human English vernacular that should never be placed together, WE COME IN PEACE could just as easily be we're coming for PIECES of you. Never presume that somebody saying they're coming in peace isn't coming to piece you out to the lowest bidder. Forewarned should be forearmed but knowing humanity lots of luck.....

[@angelmatiastorres]

Creating a dyson swarm.

[@Bacchasnail]

Are... are humans the Grey Goo Scenario??

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

We gonna make a Dyson Sphere boiii

[@amberliddell4503]

Love this story

[@darkestwilightt]

7:50 -7:58 aka Star Treks federation

[@kdrapertrucker]

Imagine thinking planets are so fragile that an SUV can kill it, especially when you know the planet

[@kdrapertrucker]

Has suffered things a million times worse long before humans ever existed.

[@Greywander87]

TBH I'm not as big of a fan of the stories that paint humans as idealistic and utopian. It just sounds too much like wishful thinking. It's the naivety of the Enlightenment thinkers who thought that man's Reason could solve all the problems of the world. But it turns out humans are quite irrational, and Reason has its limits when there are more things you don't know than things you know. I prefer HFY stories that are more pragmatic, that focus on the brutal tenacity of humans. I think it's more realistic but also more badass for humans to still be divided into various factions that fight each other, and yet still manage to topple the evil galactic empire. It's like, humanity will never be united, but if we were, we could do literally anything; that's how strong we are.

[@funster0691]

idk why I commented but well like you said we are irrational, so fuck the rationale that says we can't do all that cool shit let's make a utopia, we are humans we are awesome fuck yaaaaaa

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

Societies change, as does mindset. Ancient Mayans probably don't like stories that paints humanity as a species that doesn't sacrifice the hearts of virgins to gods because it's too idealistic.

[@Greywander87]

@@standard-carrier-wo-chan Societies may change, but human nature does not. A big part of the hubris of the Enlightenment thinkers was thinking that they were somehow better than the people who came before them, that they could succeed where their ancestors had failed. In reality, they were the same, they just had the advantage of standing on the shoulders of those who came before and inheriting their knowledge.

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

@@Greywander87 "Human nature does not change" Fair. I also agree with this. However, given enough effort and motivation, even a government system perfect enough to run for millenias and be impervious to human nature can be invented, and when needs musts (say an apocalyptic event that decimated the whole galaxy, something like in the story), it is as you said: humanity can and will band together to pull some real magic out of our asses. Human nature won't vanish, sure, but it doesn't mean everything we do is completely attached to it. In fact, sometimes even we can judge that some of our nature is inherently desconstructive to a larger society, and take steps to reduce it using external means like laws.

[@maltheopia]

@@Greywander87 The Enlightenment liberals were wrong, but so were you spiritualists. There's no such thing as human nature, in the sense of some abstract set of personality traits that will imprint on a human mind regardless of material condition. Or is this another attempt to smuggle in Original Sin with the Christianity lazily filed off?

[@hansethetooly5421]

follow up we pulled the tectonic plates with piles of matter to get sucked in and under so earth would get larger.

[@evernewb2073]

look up dyson spheres (it's what the dimming sun was a reference to) they are a fascinating and legitimately _terrifying_ idea developed clear back when the best computers available were purely analogue machines, though practically speaking you'd be building a dyson array without impossibly strong materials and a heavy energy upkeep requirement for the the structure, neither of which are things you'd want even if you could make those impossibly strong materials. frankly that man was the primary source for lots of the big mainstay ideas in sci-fi: he was a very early programmer way back when that required being a mathematician and an engineer and the term "programmer" wasn't really a thing yet, he spent a _lot_ of his time figuring out what could actually be _done_ with programming and often went off on tangents when working on the more theoretical side of things which lead to things like asking the question "what is the difference between a terraforming tool and a planet killing superweapon?" or the paperclip maximiser problem, and even coming up with the original idea for grey-goo nanites. the reason he was (and still is) so god damned terrifying is that he wasn't asking these things as a philosopher framing ideas or as a writer coming up with fanciful story elements, he was dead-serious asking these questions because he'd just gotten through proving the basic theories on why and how they may become relevant to reality, for instance you can make a grey-goo scenario happen on a stellar scale with literal clockwork tech, the only difference being that the "nanites" are about the size of a motorcycle. That one isn't even in-theory terrifying he straight up designed and built one, proved it could self-replicate, and promptly smashed it and melted down the remains.

[@hansethetooly5421]

@@evernewb2073 expanding the mantle by the addition of curated matter, play on the comment of him "Expanding the planet"

[@eliandervalderen5849]

I'm reminded of hero boy I must succeed

[@draxomega]

Super-teen extraordinaire Freakazoid, Freakazoid

[@eliandervalderen5849]

@@draxomega runs around in underwear! Freakazoid, Freakazoid

[@conradrolla]

Who is planning what for every human there is a plan!

[@Darkwintre]

So humanity decided why the heck not?!

[@johncunningham4820]

Ringworld Project initiated............

[@bobmaxjohn1306]

Ok then

[@WiredTurkey316]

For the Dyson swore

[@theoharrison573]

i’m here

[@madi4642]

dyson

[@GentlemanBystander]

Yuck