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[@Troleandocreyentes]

Xeno: why? Human: because is fucking cool... that's why.

[@anonymouspotato7538]

I mean, you can't build something large enough to register as a planetary body, let alone a stellar body, and *not* put a giant planet-melting laser on it.

[@chrisb9143]

we need to build a Death Star before creating a Moon base

[@alexejvecera6317]

But the death Star is the size of a small moon

[@BrunoMaricFromZagreb]

Better yet you can't resist the urge to make it do something unconventional

[@kdarkwynde]

EXACTLY!

[@kevinpeters6709]

@@chrisb9143 why not just make Luna THE Death Star?

[@stalwartteakettlepotato9879]

This is basically every stellaris playthrogh when you pick mega engineering

[@Crazylom]

Wait, someone *doesn't* pick mega-engineering?

[@stalwartteakettlepotato9879]

@@Crazylom That's the problem with the ascention perks. Most of them are mild improvement and then there are a few of them that are game changingly powerful. So to awnser your question, people who don't pick mega engineering are newbis, some roleplayers and people who don't have utopia.

[@Annomano2205]

Alein: So what are you going to use this system for? Humans: Yes

[@MuxauJ7]

Ah, yes. Isaac Arthur ltd. got unleashed into the galaxy.

[@marclytle644]

Oh man that would be hilarious. He is a great YTer.

[@kdarkwynde]

😆😆😆

[@Meanslicer43]

The community grows. We are ever-present. In the scifi and science sections of yt at least

[@deathseven5041]

I first thought they build a Death Star ,,just because it seemed like the right thing to do,,

[@gampie13]

well, the death star part seems to be more of an afterthought, the main point was the warp/wormhole concept, but when you have a massive round space station bigger then a star, why not install a massive laser that can also be converted to thruster? plus, it servs as a massive defensive fortress with artillary capabilities in space relative range

[@centurionconrad]

In all honesty, I think a subspace tunneling device is more useful than a Death Star.

[@chrisb9143]

why not both ?

[@J0hnB09]

The Death Star beam like thrusters was just a consequence of necessary movement.

[@MogofWar]

@@chrisb9143 What they built was both, apparently.

[@andrewh5568]

You are obviously an alien masquerading as human on our planet.

[@chaosfriedeggz6014]

I fully agree with the installation of the planet melting lazer It just feels right

[@Zedyne]

Ah yes, it's made not because we need it, but because we must build it! With a nice little twist in the end. Neat!

[@willparry530]

"We'll climb it because it's there."

[@georgeemme4483]

"Planet Melting Super Laser" 1) needs to be a band name, and 2) is officially my new favorite string of words

[@Slayerbot-br8yg]

How about Spaghettification or Nuclear Pasta?

[@georgeemme4483]

@@Slayerbot-br8yg spaghettification has promise

[@singletona082]

Oh great, Isaac Arthur got crowd funding.... Fuckit I'll upload my mind to the dyson sphere and if that iteration of 'me' has to spend a portion of its time overseeing automated production of widgets? So be it. That version of me will be ON A FUCKING DYSON SPHERE. SUCK IT UNIVERSE!

[@kdarkwynde]

That iteration of you could always make a copy of itself to do the overseeing...I mean, you're on a Dyson sphere-powered matrioshka brain...

[@singletona082]

@@kdarkwynde Well the thing is I would actually derive satisfaction in having a part time job. No need to splinter off seperate processes.

[@Crazylom]

Multi-purpose Dyson spere is a pinnacle of civilization

[@nocteraeterna2200]

It's indeed part of our collective psy the need of a giant super death ray that can melt planets

[@GEWB2105]

Physics: Yeah, under the best case scenario, it takes about 5 years to get from one side of the galaxy to the other. Humanity: No, not good enough.

[@bubbyscott7064]

Same here same here

[@taitano12]

Meh. It's not like physics has any actual laws... A few suggestions, perhaps.

[@dylancavill1921]

Physics: here's a hard limit to how fast you can go. Humans: GO FASTER!

[@aronnemcsik]

@@cavedmanjim249 " I will never stop employing lazy people. Because they always find the easiest solution to a problem."- Bill Gates

[@willparry530]

@@aronnemcsik lol

[@leerman22]

Goose Aspec "Ah come on, I need those! I need those for reasons!"

[@davidvincent5701]

Half way into the story I'm like Star Trek, replicator, galactic scale? I liked the eventual out come of story though. Galactic subway, "Pennsylvania Station to Outer Orion Arm, departure time 23:30 local, arrival 5:45 local, please go to gate 33. I repeat"

[@coreythebludragon1986]

A: "excuse me what are you doing?" H: "Punching holes in reality" A: "WHAT?!"

[@taitano12]

Humans used that spinning Dyson Sphere to give The Universe a Purple Nurple and Physics cried "UNCLE!!" and gave us its lunch money. 😈😆

[@AGoodBean]

Haha, humans love generating too much energy! There was a cool Tom Scott video about a Scottish Island making too much energy. I don't think they're going to put a big laser on it though.

[@AGoodBean]

This was a great episode ☺️

[@basrengangetch.2042]

Yet

[@AGoodBean]

@@basrengangetch.2042 Sssh we shouldn't give them ideas!

[@KumkumBeats]

Always better to have more than enough than just enough

[@volk551]

Mankind: Father I crave speed!

[@sillerbarly4927]

You say planet melter, I say industrial sized miner/ blast furnace

[@wade8342]

So space Bezos created the death star to fulfill the 2 day cross-galaxy shipping

[@sillerbarly4927]

Yea a giant sphere that blocks a sun should always have a planet melting Lazer on it. It just makes sense

[@gamingmoran9597]

Why not why not put a big f****** laser on the Dyson sphere WHY SHOULDN'T I

[@alexejvecera6317]

Rogal Dorn: yes!

[@voidwanderer7138]

Making a mockup death star for the lolz? nope guessed wrong oof

[@gamingmoran9597]

Build a pointless object just to show humans are superior I can see it happening

[@anetkajerabkova19]

I thought they were building 1:1 replica of the death star.

[@donanthebarbarian5177]

Only a Dyson sphere built around a red or white dwarf star or neutron stars would be small enough to be a 1:1 replica of the death star. A Dyson sphere built around our own sun (which is on the small side for stars) would dwarf even the planet killer base of the Rae star wars series.

[@Bubbaprime04]

10 hours into his 8 hour workday I feel that

[@blinking_dodo]

This is how humans should be.

[@QruisS]

I imagine the military were more than happy to fund a portable barely disguised death star from under the table

[@brianbarber5401]

Especially a Death Star that given the appropriate timing, can teleport anywhere, leaving an access point into the system.

[@_gold_eye_2656]

to build a road is to build a bigger civilization

[@EpicNerd]

reminds me of star trek online, where an ancient race and their servitor races had built 4 dyson spheres which could jump to any star of their choosing.

[@nooblangpoo]

Basically, making a goddamn freeway/expressway in an intergalactic scale. God, the toll there is gonna be f*ck huge. "Oh you wanna go trade with those dudes? well you could travel there for 5 years or you could just pay us 10000 creds."

[@spartanonxy]

I mean time is money. And well cutting 5 years of your journey? That is a lot of time.

[@zyanidwarfare5634]

So humanity revolutionized travel, but in the process they also took over the galaxy because they have multiple massive super weapons capable of crossing the galaxy in an instant and fucking melting entire planets

[@chrisb9143]

"I would like to talk to you about your spaceship extended warranty"

[@recursiveslacker7730]

This story is one of the best of its kind I’ve heard so far.

[@warrendesonia7924]

Very Well written - A tip of the professional hat to the author.....

[@Sora-md1ye]

STAR WARS fans know that building what is essentially a Death Star is a stupid idea. Why put all that time, resources, and energy into a death ray when you could put it in military training, medical advances,and transportation?

[@JOhnDoe-nl4wj]

death star > military training, medical advances and transportation fight me

[@Sora-md1ye]

@@JOhnDoe-nl4wj I just need to find the Achilles air vent. Stormtroopers won't be a problem.

[@J0hnB09]

But the laser is actually an enormous fusion engine which moves the Dyson sphere, so it’s not a Death Star, just a wormhole generator.

[@gampie13]

But it's not a death star, it's a wormhole engine, that has a massive thruster, that in emergency can become a death star, so it checks out. We have a solar mass entity engine, that is supposed to be backup and jumpstart of industry and energy, it's hard to defend that, why dont we strap a convertable death star on top of it, so it can act as a defensive mobile artillary battery, just in case?

[@gabrielandradeferraz386]

that wouldn't have been a problem if they had a second, smaller deathstar covering the exaust port.

[@IcyMan143]

Human nerd engineers make real Death Star.

[@GuyWhoWatchesStuff]

Aliens: it would be a stupid idea to make a Dyson Sphere, why are you doing this!? Those humans: F**k you, that's why

[@IcyMan143]

100% one of my favorites. Took me way to long to find it again.

[@lumberluc]

5 years to get across the Galaxy!? F*** that! I want to get across in 5 seconds! We build Gates for a reason.

[@eddoh2701]

MOAR DAKKA, is a human right if you ask me

[@IcyMan143]

Really puts the star in Stark Industries

[@generalzeta7000]

How many of us though it was a Death Star at first? Raze your hands put them up there!!! *Raze hand*

[@robertrosenthal7264]

Actually I thought it was going to be used for either a thruster (it was) or part of an kugelblitz assembly array (it wasn't, maybe that's a later project)

[@gampie13]

@@robertrosenthal7264 It could in the future, the currently built industrial capabilities only took up a fraction of the stable power output of the star, while it stored up batteries. I expect it to be used that way, and after you reach your destination, you simply start charging batteries, and build up ad-hook industrialisation to use the rest of the energy of the star.

[@oVoidhawko]

I prefer not to raze my hands, as I am rather attached to both. Not even in the name of planet melting super lasers. I will, however, raze the hands of other people who seek to prevent their construction.

[@aleisterlavey9716]

Not a Death Star, but a Drive Star...

[@seighartmercury]

I was expecting a stellar drive, not THAT haha

[@Andrewe1000]

Soooooo... teleport into a inhabited region and melt planet with well over billions lifeforms and many important military, economic and political stations?

[@Sirdudee]

Lol I just thought they were making a Star Wars Park.

[@Mental-Illness]

…I lowkey thought for a good minute they were just making the Death Star 💀

[@gamingmoran9597]

Death star but BIGGER

[@swimmernick]

Dyson swarms are better

[@chrisb9143]

But you cannot have a planet melting death ray :(

[@gibbous_silver]

@@chrisb9143 yes we can, its just not as powerful

[@Mgl1206]

@@gibbous_silver a dyson swarm is easily destroyed, aka Kessler Syndrome

[@Mgl1206]

doesn't matter, a dyson sphere is more portable, more applicable to other purposes, and even if way more resource intensive, serves as a planet all on its own

[@williamedmondson2735]

@@Mgl1206 also Dyson swarms can't look like the death star

[@BrunoMaricFromZagreb]

Good job humans,always being kind and helping people in the long-run.

[@WiredTurkey316]

For the algorithm

[@secretobvious6033]

lmao get rekt xenos

[@Monster_Ink]

For the algorithm!

[@whatsagoodusername823]

Youn pou algorithm la

[@larsb4572]

Thx for video !

[@viridityone3106]

I thought they were making a death star

[@IONATVS]

A Dyson Sphere would make the death star look TINY. The most iconic (though neither the original nor even close to the most practical) version of the idea, which this one seems to be based on, is a “thin” (probably a few miles thick for structural reasons) spherical shell fully englobing the star and a large part of the inner solar system at approximately 1 AU radius, where the death star is “merely” large moon-sized. Tho its “death ray” (the specific style described in the vid is called a Nicoll-Dyson Beam in hard SciFi circles, and just passively reflects and focuses the entire star’s light on a single spot like a giant magnifying glass) would take many minutes to cook Earth’s biosphere and hours-days to actually blow apart a planet, and its hyperdrive charges MUCH faster than the described wormhole drive, so a death star is clearly running more efficiently as a combat platform.

[@polasamierwahsh421]

niiiiice

[@Crazylom]

I remember this story

[@seighartmercury]

I was expecting a stellar drive, not THAT haha

[@whyjnot420]

Another story, another conflation of sentient and sapient. Can you hear my exasperated sigh from here? edit: Sapience is being wise, not sentience. Just remember, homo *sapien* = thinking man. Sentience is the ability to feel.

[@bobertoakes1811]

Forth I think

[@k0rf3on6]

Hello commet section! I guess im first here.

[@randomghost5374]

Me was here

[@Namel909]

first sss !

[@BeeKisses]

Noice Noice

[@cmmpr111]

Meth

[@memeguydankboy8614]

cum