How to win an Interstellar War by kurzgesagt | Physicist Reacts

[@PiratePawsLive]

"Good times rhymes with war crimes. And I like the smell of genocide in the morning." - Unknown Smorpian

[@blitzxag]

Man only if those came true

[@killman369547]

A Dyson swarm is such a versatile megastructure. It's actually 3 megastructures in one. It can be a regular Dyson swarm (generates energy), it can be a star lifter. Star lifters reflect some energy back into the star to lift massive amounts of hydrogen and helium off the star to be processed into heavier elements through nuclear fusion. It's literally mining a star for near infinite resources and it prolong's the star's lifespan too. And lastly it can be a star laser. And there wouldn't be a whole lot of modification necessary to swap "modes".

[@kolyashinkarev7366]

The star laser is actually called Nicole-dyson beam

[@Twist-The-Friendly-Hunter]

A dyson swarm is basically a better idea than a whole dyson sphere. A grid of satalites surrounding the star so that if anything hits them, it doesn't desroy the wholw thing.

[@mxaa9776]

This is right for the wrong reason tbh, cuz on one hand sure, if an asteroid or smth hits one of the sattelites only the on it hit will be destroyed, but on the other hand a full sphere would be more durable, and could quite easily survive. The main reason why a swarm is better than a sphere is the cost. To make a swarm you could just mine like half of Mercury or something, but for a sphere we'd probably have to destroy multiple planets.

[@xgozulx]

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[@logangrimnar3800]

Isaac Arthur just released a similar video about space warfare and orbital defense platforms. He goees in depth and provides a juicier commentary on the subject, if you get the chance to watch.

[@Dreznin]

Definitely second the Isaac Arthur suggestion, his videos are good deep dives into theoretical future tech and how they are theorized to function.

[@logangrimnar3800]

@@Dreznin I won't lie, I find kurzgedagt pretty cringy

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@@logangrimnar3800 that is part of the charm

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Isaac is the man

[@jeremygair4007]

For the missiles, the further away the point of origin, the more warning you get.

[@jeremygair4007]

If humanity made a Dyson swarm it would trigger instantaneous full scale war for its control.

[@Dysputant]

Sound of stellaris music in background made me check if i did not launch game by accident -.-

[@JustGrowingUp84]

One of my favorite videos from kurzgesagt!

[@leonrblitz4351]

Nice Stellaris Music ( Faster Then Light i think) in the background 👍

[@hisholinesslordpotato]

hoo he's growing fast

[@jeremygair4007]

FTL Changes it all. Also, if they have high efficiency matter energy transmutation. Logistics become essentially infinite. Something that advanced will utterly smear us among the stars.

[@mxaa9776]

I'm not sure how they could achieve M.E. transmutation at all but yea if they could we'd be dead. Also just a random thought: if their M.E. technology was advanced enough couldn't they theoretically just transmute the entire planet and instantly win the war?

[@jeremygair4007]

@mxaa9776 I would think so but rate of transmutation would matter. It's like how nanite swarms dissolving everything into more nanites wouldnt necessarily be exponential in function. I think rate of replication matters but also, a limiting factor on speed could be heat dispersion for nanites.

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Internet historian did a new episode on wine

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The hell was that at the halfway point

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[@aoihitori]

Everytime I saw that channel it always Destruction of Human civilization. 😂 Don't rush we are going there.

[@Anteen-m2o]

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[@muldoone6920]

Huh, i just learned out sun is white. Thats nuts. but makes sense.

[@Pakistani890]

makes A LOT of sense tbh!

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Nice 👍

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[@Iamtruerevelation]

Okay ganz ehrlich Menschen auslöschen gar kein Problem ist okay aber lass doch endlich mal den Planeten in Ruhe hallo das ist Schatz laufen Leben wachsen und existieren einer der interessantesten wertvollsten Schätze in Universum