What Would Happen If We Built a Real Dyson Sphere?

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[@Thoughty2]

What do you think? Will humanity ever build a Dyson Sphere? Don't forget to check out Stellaris: Galaxy Command play.stellaris.com/Thoughty2 and use your code THOUGHTY2 for in-game bonuses!

[@Arturopakastur]

maybe

[@oliverharding3751]

yes we will be very technologically advanced soon

[@shrekwithawillsmithface465]

No

[@DeathBlister]

I love Stellaris, cool to see a video on something from it.

[@therock5878]

Thoughty2 I’m the man behind your code. What do the hidden messages mean?

[@portalj123]

we just need to make a dyson sphere for every star in the multiverse, then we can play cyberpunk 2077 at 2 fps minimum settings

[@jebes909090]

You poor weak computer plebs. My chad 3090 plays it just fine.

[@prospect2664]

@@Housecat333 good for you, most of us dont play on nasa super comuters sadly, so we dont get more than 1fps

[@prospect2664]

@@Housecat333 my pc costed 1.8k euros.....

[@masterzombie161]

Even if the game ran good, it still doesn’t have much to do in the game compared to San Andreas, yakuza, or red dead Redemption 2.

[@scholar2984]

@@prospect2664 In the hopes to help you, there may be something going on regarding a 1800 Euro not being able to handle the game. First off: What year did you buy it in? Did you build it yourself or was it purchased pre-built? What resolution are you trying to play in? A self-built 700-900 USD PC should be able to handle Ultra 1080p at 100 FPS in the nomad starting prologue with little difficulty. If you have a 2070 (last generation), you should be able to also use max ray tracing with roughly the same FPS (assuming you have at least a 10th gen processor if intel is used -- A side note is that AMD is now considered the top dog in this field). If you're using a 4k Monitor, then a mid-range 1800 build might have difficulties maintaining 60fps or even 30 FPS even with a 3070. 4k is very labor intensive and there may be natural bottlenecks in both self-built and especially pre-built computers. Most of the time, pre-builts are only as powerful as a self-built that cost 1/3rd the price (meaning that self-builts or custom builders are almost always the way to go if you want a beefy computer). 10xx Series and now 30xx series GPUs are hard to get during their relevance due to a combination of scalpers and miners, so sometimes custom made may even be cheaper than self bought. Though you should avoid pre-built brand names most of the time. They over charge and under deliver in most situations. If a 4k monitor is used, then switch to 1080p or 1440p and enjoy the FPS in the 60-100s range. Here is a place and community that can help you if you need it: pcmasterrace.org/builds www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/

[@quandary1382]

If we ever manage to build a Dyson sphere, the simulation would end as we haven't paid for the expansion pack.

[@satakrionkryptomortis]

its more like we send the first parts out for some years and the first manned ship. the moment we try to assemble it the message will appear. as a non skippable notification as the astronauts view, seeing nothing else, bit allowing to work on it for 5 minutes after a 1 min add. and nasa be like "well, take the add. we will wait."

[@bladeslithered7583]

Thats when we die

[@illhumpy8696]

It just simply wouldnt even show up in our build menu. Just the lore notebook 😂😂✌

[@whocares6692]

its the dyson sphere owned by fking EA or something ? :D

[@istgstopcallingmeafurry3108]

EA is taking shit too far

[@randomperson2888]

Imagine finding an alien species that built a cage around their star just for better WiFi, lol.

[@cheesedeity1516]

@Acorniscute I mean it kinda does, what powers your 5G towers air?

[@neek01]

@@cheesedeity1516 Yea but simply feeding 5G towers more energy, doesn't necessarily mean a better signal per se

[@jamescrawley7993]

Wanna bet that will be us in a few hundred generations, and more scientific knowledge?! Possibly??

[@altonb93]

@@neek01 well with more power you can increase the range and make it run at the fastest possible speed of what its capable of

[@ThinkingBeanz]

@@altonb93 Possibly. But to increase speed, you’d have to upgrade the actual circuit running the 5g towers

[@jacobambos3885]

I think if we had the knowledge, resources, and power to build a Dyson sphere, we wouldn't need to build a Dyson sphere.

[@bruhmoment8624]

That sounds kinda dumb ...... its lile saying you dont need a car if you already have the bike......we dont technically need it but it damn sure helps

[@FlowerOfSloth]

I kinda took it as you would need a dysons sphere worth of energy to build a dyson sphere. If you were that advanced already, and you could make megastructures that size... I am sure we are so efficient with our energy or using some next to free method at the point that we wouldn't be interested in making a dyson sphere.

[@KICK839]

@@FlowerOfSloththe energy we will get from dyson sphere will be like millions of times more than the energy ,we put in making it.....

[@FlowerOfSloth]

@@KICK839 Yes I understand that... Unfathomable amounts compared to unfathomable amounts would be the edit for you.

[@thunderspark1536]

@@FlowerOfSloth Perhaps, it depends on the society in the future, which is impossible to guess. But I find it likely we'll at least give it a try sometime. After all, we're building a fusion reactor just to see if we can, the current one that's being built won't even generate energy.

[@Hexra_]

Watching Thoughty2 is like watching VSauce but its not narrated by a potential psychopath

[@livedandletdie]

Stares into Michael's Eyes... I dun no what's worse, Michael Stevens eyes or that Japanese Ice Cream commercial where the guy just scoops up himself and eats.

[@harveyrouen4655]

@@livedandletdie ive seen that advert and no Mikey boys eyes are creepier

[@alexanderseibel3845]

or is it?

[@scottadams7820]

@@livedandletdie little baby's ice cream, they were outta Philly

[@gohitman791]

hey Vsauce, Micheal here, skeletons are scary...and as always, thanks for watching.....

[@MomdYT]

This man's sarcasm is on a whole lot nother level

[@bishton]

Don't know many British people do you

[@MomdYT]

@@bishton Well maybe but still this man is special

[@loud4life920]

@@bishton i mean I'm canadian but 90 percent of the words out of my mouth are sarcastic

[@CRzyHDedJHny]

He has the power 'cosmic'

[@danielfoley6839]

So true

[@Baleur]

19:00 interesting that you didnt mention the RADIO signal detected from Tabby's star as well a few months later, a radio signal extremely similar to the "Wow" signal from SETI in years prior. A patterned structured repeating signal unlike any natural signal we've ever seen before or since. Yet somehow nobody remembers that, and nobody mentions it.

[@AndrewLovesGames]

Thanks

[@kuberpandya7144]

Might be that its just going Supernova! Kaboom

[@brandonpoole3361]

You know your in to deep when someone actually goes out of their way to research your comment and still can't find anything except a group of alien hunters from bbc, they're the ones who found that radio wave. If you believe that you should watch looking for big foot you'll like that tpo

[@realhuman5688]

Please be aliens

[@cynthiaayers7696]

Speed of scale... So what caused entropy to expand.? You can't have an atom unless there's entropy. Quantum particles.? Formed to make the first Adams.? Nothing gathers unless there's pressure. High and low. That points to entropy just being there. Where it came from is a big question mark. Meaning: when did thermal dynamics first appear in physics. What caused it. A repeat of the same question.? Either way light/ entropy, moves at a constant but, scale is infinite in rate and size. At the same moment. Putting the two walking hand in hand. Meaning: they are one and the same. This point to never knowing when it started, or how big things are. We're somewhere along the line, looking at what's in front of us scratching our heads. This is part of the conundrum in physics. We can apply it but, that's about it. Maybe that's all that matters.

[@chincemagnet]

As fascinating as it is, the scale of such a monumentous project is so vast, it would require the pillaging of entire solar systems worth of resources to build one in our system.

[@McKavian]

The Dahak* book series by David Weber has a Dyson Sphere-esq structure that they build to protect the inner solar system. The Dyson sphere that we would build would be similar to this in that they (in the book) realized that there are a LOT of unoccupied solar systems around us. We can dismantle those systems as opposed to destroying ours. Edit: it helps to use the right name of the book series.

[@dommysprite3771]

There are neighboring solar systems that's we could actually start gathering resources from soon once are space tech gets more advanced.

[@THE-X-Force]

Not for the Swarm though. We don't need a swarm that could harness even *1%* of the Sun's power output in order to provide more energy than humans will ever need for billions of years. Also, as the swarm gets built, it will provide energy to help increase further production of the swarm. We should have started on this decades ago. We can do it right now. There is nothing stopping humanity from having this literally world changing technology other than *greed.* They (not some Illuminati _"they"_ .. but the profit driven corporations and corrupt governments that enable them) have insatiable greed that truly is an insanity. *_THEY_* wouldn't care if the Earth, and everything on it, shattered into a million pieces, as long as they were flung off into the frozen void of space clutching the most money in their cold dead hands.

[@mrbuttocks6772]

Nope, people have done the calculations, we'd only need about the mass of Mercury to do it. In fact, Mercury itself is a wonderful source of raw material for such a project!

[@chincemagnet]

@@mrbuttocks6772 you’re not going to find all those resources In any single location

[@TheNukedNacho]

"... it will almost certainly be able to run Crysis." This is why I love this channel. That line caught me off-guard and I love it

[@ThudFudgins]

Underrated comment

[@hoola_amigos]

@@ThudFudgins timestamp?

[@sethmath2778]

But it would have a 2-3 hour input lag

[@herobrine8763og]

but it probably won't be able to run minecraft on fabulous

[@hannes6489]

@@hoola_amigos 15:03

[@thesandwich5321]

Trying to get discovered by a species who've dismantled planets just because they needed internet with less lag... Actually that sounds like a really good sci-fi novel premise.

[@thesandwich5321]

@In our doom we find resolve The mighty STARSWALLOWERS of Cygnus Prime descend upon the Earth and demand to know... "What's your ping?"

[@thewierdolegion3445]

@@thesandwich5321 HaHAha

[@yourfriendlygiantknightofd3277]

@@thesandwich5321 random guy from asia: uuhhh *check his game ping* uhh 67 i think is that all

[@Enonymouse_]

Hitch hikers guide to better internet..

[@hoofarted]

@@thesandwich5321 "What do you mean it's ten quadrillion ms ping for alpha centauri? A pathetic bloody planet. I've no sympathy at all"

[@richardtrude7562]

If you were giving lectures when I was young, I probably would have attended college full time. Your presentation is perfect and pulls viewers into the subject matter.

[@Avigorus]

Technically, nuclear and at least part of geothermal energy can be argued to be a form of solar energy that's a lot older, from a previous star in fact, as it did take something like a supernova to create all elements bigger than iron, including most everything radioactive.

[@lillycastitatis6807]

Can you explain please?

[@Avigorus]

@@lillycastitatis6807 Fusion happens in stars or during specific events like supernovas or stellar collisions, and the latter examples are required for anything bigger than iron. Hence, anything fissionable came from a supernova or stellar collision, making them a product of past stars.

[@lillycastitatis6807]

@@Avigorus Thank you for the reply. Does that mean that rather than being formed here, fissionable materials arrived to Earth from space?

[@Avigorus]

@@lillycastitatis6807 They were part of the dust that coalesced into the solar system. Some might have come from asteroids or meteorites after the fact, but the vast majority was here long before we even had liquid water on the surface.

[@lillycastitatis6807]

@@Avigorus It’s clear now, thank you.

[@realnametba2]

This kind of stuff is more interesting than anything else to me. It makes me wish I could live for thousands of years to watch it play out.

[@ineedmoney7652]

For real bruh 🤞🏿

[@worldmapping4895]

that would make you sacrifice your mental stability

[@snikrepak]

@@worldmapping4895 it would not, you main goal, your only purpose, would be opened up to infinite possibilities. You could invent to forward the species, you could explore the vast void we call space, you could do absolutely, anything. My personal goal is to at least traveled to the moon or mars. Teaching my daughter about space and the unimaginable beauty that resides out there, but to also love and respect earth.

[@chibicthulhu4382]

Same...

[@m.powell9676]

I've always wished that was the afterlife. Just observing everything as time flows on beyond what our physical body ever could.

[@jeremyharris6153]

Once we build a dyson sphere. We will easily be able to generate the 1.2 gigawatts that Doc Browns car requires to time travel.

[@bradleyhoward9638]

A single bolt of lightning can do that we can already harness that. if we could use that energy to travel the speed of light maybe time travel into the future would be possible but only for solid objects because living beings can never withstand that type of speed

[@michaeljones7465]

The asteroid belt is a natural Dyson Sphere to build on.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

That's the easy part. Not so easy: finding a de Lorean that still runs.

[@jeremyharris6153]

Gee. 3 comments from people that wanted to correct me. Only 1 wanted to continue with a fictional idea.

[@KnewYou2]

How has no one corrected the comment to 1.21 gigawatts

[@Newo_46]

With the dyson* sphere attracting asteroids wouldn't you have a system to destroy them for materials instead of simply a protective barrier? that would then allow for more materials and an expansion of the dyson sphere or the creation of a second one.

[@sbh79]

Dyson, not disown

[@Newo_46]

@@sbh79 my b

[@McKavian]

At this point, I'm sure that weapons would advance in line with the Dyson sphere tech. They would be able to arm themselves well enough to blast pesky asteroids into component dust.

[@robertmccracken6930]

Probably would have already harvested the astroids for the materials along with all the other planets in the solar system by that point

[@mrbuttocks6772]

It would not attract asteroids, that's now how gravity works dude.

[@GenTheFurredArtist]

The Dyson Sphere might be near impossible to build. But damn, electricity bills getting erradicated permenantly sounds like a dream come true.

[@feni007]

Oh they'll still find a way to charge you don't worry about that lol. Most likely the costs of building it will be placed onto the citizens.

[@Beatyofeet32]

The power generation is free. The logistics and engineering needed to get it to your home would still need to be paid for, though. Water is already free, but getting it to your house in a form that's readily usable already costs money today ( and it should ). Energy sourced from a Dyson sphere would be very similar. I mean, technically solar energy is already free, but few actually take advantage of it directly outside of growing plants and paying for some product made by someone else that captures and stores it.

[@GenTheFurredArtist]

@@Beatyofeet32 Never thought of it that way. I guess it's just how capitalism works.

[@Anonymous-hx3pu]

@@GenTheFurredArtist it's how economics work, if you don't pay someone to deliver a resource to you, (whether that resource is free or not), then your gonna have to get it yourself.

[@GenTheFurredArtist]

@@Anonymous-hx3pu I guess that's just how the world works then.

[@eramires]

Suddenly a random Dark Souls message appears on the floor and it says: "Praise the sun". \o/

[@trillpaint3001]

Followed by a "Try horse tongue but hole" message lmao

[@eramires]

@@trillpaint3001 xD

[@TanismanTwo12508]

\o/ | / \

[@yuridapted7459]

"Take the plunge"

[@Geister-Roboter]

"Try long finger but hole"

[@SternLX]

"...or just to get high." Stoners everywhere: "Whoa! So the sun lit my joint?"

[@justinnall2747]

Yup

[@grave0x]

was smoking a bong as he said it and im just enjoying the timing of it

[@dumbass4665]

Cereal is good

[@onpointgaming1070]

Literally just commented about this lmaoooo

[@youtubeterminatedmyaccount8882]

Definitely

[@handyhippie6548]

in a novel titled "ringworld", humanity created and lived on a modified dyson sphere constructed around a star. i read it in jr. high, and thought it was a good book. it was a ring because of the materials necessary to create such a structure.

[@craig1474]

Not being a nah-say, but here’s a few challenges: - that is a lot of material. - how do we get the energy back to earth. Would it be better to use large prisms and focus the energy into heating? Probably cheaper than geothermal.

[@adamnwizard]

"Some even predict that it would be so powerful.... that it could run CRYSIS!" .. I lost so hard.

[@petenielsen6683]

LMMO (laughed my mask off)

[@asiangoose90ti]

@@petenielsen6683 why are we here just to suffer -some random game quote listening to jokes that would make no sense 3 yrs ago

[@fencepostjay2496]

Only CRYSIS, what a shame that it can't run Minecraft.

[@lorekeeper685]

@@fencepostjay2496 mc is omniversal+ we need harwest a blackhole

[@busterhikney6936]

@12:33 The act of dismantling Uranus for the sake of building a Dyson Spere can be a win-win situation

[@darkartprojects5749]

Could you do a part 2 on the possibilities of a Dyson Swarm?

[@plumber1337]

Wait a moment... Doesn't that mean that the Sun would become the new mitochondrion?

[@Mr.N0B0DY.]

always has been

[@SwarumtheForum]

the powerhouse of the sphere

[@lazyturtle284]

And always will be

[@Cody357]

Now hold on a second what

[@daner8878]

Exactly, our universe is just a little tiny part of something way bigger.

[@maxilol2345]

just imagine a tiny copper wire coming out of the dyson sphere to earth across millions of miles

[@nosuchthing8]

Or a high efficiency laser beam

[@christianmarx3249]

@@nosuchthing8 the wire would be better in energy loss

[@nosuchthing8]

@@christianmarx3249 Yes, very true. Very impractical though

[@aeringothyk5445]

Hilarious thought, but the ideal design would be the sphere extending one AU, which means that the edge of it would be very close to earth, and basically be visible and reachable from the surface of the planet much like the moon

[@marveloussoftware4914]

😂🤣😂

[@madsteve9]

Freeman Dyson's work on Project Orion would be a good follow up. The speculation, that the 50,000 Ton, Space Battleship, that would have used, Nuclear Explosions to propel it through space, wasn't killed off. But better technology, some of it back engineered, was added to the design. What, British Hacker, Gary McKinnon found, on the US Navy's database, for off world crew manifests, for the USS Curtis E LeMay and USS Nikola Tesla. As well as the large cylindrical / cigar shaped craft, in orbit, with 4 observation domes at one end, was in fact one of these vessels.

[@davecrupel2817]

I think the most energy-saving way to build a dyson sphere would be to base its design on a Roman Arc. Have each frame segment fit upon one another in such a way that they sit down on each other, press against each other, and thus support each other. After all, they all want to fall down onto the Sun, weighed down by the Sun's Gravity. So why not make them all lean down on each other?

[@TheBenghaziRabbit]

imagine one day being able to look at the sun seeing a cage around it. that would be fucking epic.

[@majorgunpowder7609]

That wouldnt be epic for Megalophobic people. They would live in a constant nightmare

[@michaeljones7465]

It's the asteroid belt. Now we have the foundations!

[@macman975]

Only epic to us but not if you lived at that time with that technology. It's like having a Rover on Mars, could you imagine what the Romans or Ancient Greeks would think but nowadays most people are like meh.

[@VaraLaFey]

It's sure fun to think that one day we will cage stars. But we won't. For one thing out of many, a contiguous object around a body is not in orbit. It's just a gravitationally unstable placement requiring constant adjusting due to any number of forces acting on it.

[@nicerperson1]

Ask Biden to build it, he is good at cages.

[@YoussefAlaoui]

I've finally discovered the meaning of Thoughty2 = 42, which is the "Meaning of life" from (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)!

[@animewhatifs-plusultra7295]

Yep

[@emmasimcoe2777]

You only just realised?!?!

[@YoussefAlaoui]

@@emmasimcoe2777 yeaah, I've been watching this channel for a couple lf years now, but I've just realised the meaning haha

[@davis4555]

It's funny that I just saw your comment. I just recently started watching this channel and had that thought (about 42) this morning and considered writing a comment for anyone else who hadn't realized it. Beat me to it!

[@LagiohX3]

I hear it as 32

[@DordYT]

Kurzgesagt says the spheres wouldn't have to be much more than giant, thin mirrors that redirect the sun's energy to collector stations elsewhere in the solar system. That would greatly cut down on the materials needed to build a dyson sphere.

[@stespin]

I think our brain is unable to fully process the size of such an object. The sheer amount of material needed to build a complete Sphere would require us to literally dismantle entire Solar Systems, and that thing would end up being so massive it would have it's own gravity. I think the more appropriate and feasible way would be to build a "simple" ring around the Sun with a more reasonable orbit, not a 1AU monster, and then transfer the power to earth with beams, lasers and all that scy-fy stuff. But even with the right idea, you then have to actually build it, which would obviously require huge space factories, ships with enough payload capacity to move all that mass around the galaxy and put the parts in place. At the present day we can barely put a person on our own satellite. If our civilization will ever get there (which considering our nature I seriously doubt), we are at the bare absolute minimum 5.000 to 10.000 years too early to even start thinking about sketching a concept on a napkin. And probably the same amount to design and build it. The more I think about it the more I believe it's overrated. Think when you use a cheat code in a videogame to obtain some huge game-changing equipment you aren't supposed to get until much much later in the game. Of course it's appealing, it's infinitely more powerful than everyhing we have, and if you could snap it in place just like that with a cheat code it would be a massive boost to....everything. But if you choose to follow the rules, grind your way to that point in the game and then spend time/energy/resources to build it on your own, it almost loses its point because the boost isn't that massive anymore. Evolution is the literal definition of a step by step progress, to being able to build a Dyson Sphere, you'd need to be at the step immediately before that, no shortcuts allowed, and maybe at that point we'd realize it's not really that efficient of a concept, or that there are much easier, affordable and less spectacular ones. Reality has the really bad habit of being very anti-climactic compared to our imagination 😅

[@apokkalyps6]

Except you are being too short-sigthed. Give us human 20 million more years. Its a reasonable amount, given crocodiles have had 200 million years. Do you seriously believe that we wont colonize the proximity of the solar system? At any time we could develop an AI so advanced and self improving that could imagine a new type of living being, a "robot" that could survive in space and after landing on an object in space it could self replicate and exploit its resources?

[@apokkalyps6]

We could very well the product of an alien civilization which coded into DNA instructions to replicate and improve itself until it can exploit the resources of where it landed and launched it into space. Through panspermia we travelled to earth and now are on our mission

[@tylercgarrison]

you are literally the ONLY person I dont skip ads for. Not PhillDeMerica, not daddy linus, not even hank or john green. You're hands down one of the most interesting creators on this platform for all the right reasons.

[@euanlankybombamccombie6015]

Or Arvin

[@sdbhokage9259]

exurb1a

[@tescoexpress8218]

@@sdbhokage9259 I frickin loved him. I’m pretty sure he’s disappeared off the face of the earth though.

[@harsh1174]

@@tescoexpress8218 Wait why??

[@tescoexpress8218]

@@harsh1174 his upload schedule is non-existent

[@ricthomas9788]

I’m all for it ! They already make a great vacuum.

[@DomenBremecXCVI]

I'm not sure about that, it sucks.

[@hisaan4674]

​@@DomenBremecXCVI Haha (that was not sarcasm)

[@BloopersINCjr]

“The power of the sun in the palm of my hands…”

[@thunderspark1536]

@@BloopersINCjr "Finally, I can vaccume the cat room..."

[@newfreenayshaun6651]

Heh. Dyson sucks.....

[@raymuelpatrickaranjuez2678]

Hi! Nice idea! As you are building your project i realized that the water in the pond would b very hot for the fish since its sitting under the sun. I suggest putting the inlet of your pump in the river or canal whatever you would call it going to the pond and goes out again to the river. In that way you would not put filters anymore. Water would always be fresh.

[@bertram-raven]

A single Dyson Sphere is just capable of powering the latest nVidia GPU.

[@corporatebillionaire824]

We can't even build a solid snowman.

[@mizzshortie907]

Speak for yourself

[@ManlyCynicalStoic]

Haha noob

[@foxyy2048]

L

[@soloauditor]

Than it would not be a snowman...

[@DisturbedGeneration]

@@soloauditor exactly.. itd be an iceman.. which sounds more like a superhero

[@PiousMoltar]

"Or just to get high" This man knows his audience.

[@Lazzie_the_Psilocybe_Deity]

PiousMoltar EHHHH FUCKIN AYE RIGHT!

[@funkworthrollin4959]

Had me laughing. As I proceeded to hit the weed. LoL

[@hamza7033]

I'm currently smoking as I do everytime I watch his videos lmao the guy really knows his audience

[@itstazzz6069]

Swear to god his videos are my go to late-night smoke sesh entertainment

[@Sam__ueI]

@@itstazzz6069 lol y’all are my crowd

[@vaultnurse3365]

Currently building a Dyson sphere in Stellaris. Great video and good info for thought. Glad I watched it

[@benjaminmeusburger4254]

my main reason for bying the DLC was to build a dyson sphere in Stellaris If you are in to building/factory simultors ->'Dyson sphere project'

[@formattmusic1359]

@@benjaminmeusburger4254 Dyson Sphere Program. And its about to get a huge update soon, where there will be a combat system and a huge enemy similar to Star Trek's the Borg.

[@trishaglaven9325]

this video helped me think about how to transfer energy...... orbital tesala coils (erb) to collect the energy, and magnets with motors as generators for backup of course orbital too ( big magnets [don't want to reverse the poles]). time the zap link ( you don't want to oops a orbital bodies in the beam.) one or a multitude of them to bridge the gap (coils). thank you for sharing your collected knowledge of Dyson Sphere

[@trishaglaven9325]

satellites and find a system that is only a star so we don't ruin our system, and of Corse share with the neibors once interstellar and they start working on one. (we check their formula to see if they have either found a new way to dyson or if they found our way of doing it.) otherwise they are "kerbals"

[@trishaglaven9325]

so swarms... satellites, and Nicola Tesla, coils in orbit ( don't cross streams or get orbital bodies in-between [Deathstars the planet] ) also coils in orbit around the moon as a battery converter so we don't fry our ozone off. as the earth orbits around the sun once a year zap, and the rest of the year run off battery and solar roof panels. also what if "fallout shelter" artificial moons as chia pets.

[@NarutoKing1520]

“Orrr just to get high” thoughty2 ive been watching you since I was 15, I’m 21 now and you’re still making such educational, comedic and interesting content. Keep up the good work man

[@Tony32]

Humans: Hey guys I just found a Dyson sphere! Aliens: Hey guys I just found a solar system, now we can finish our Dyson sphere!

[@110100111000]

Neither we nor they would need the whole thing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/poGXZXiGd7KVbqM

[@Tony-ld5dv]

Why you steal my name?

[@moweu]

Imagin we build a dyson sphere, only to explode with the sun in a few million years

[@linktothepastmetaldetectin5648]

The material that it would take to create this would be more than our planet has to give

[@5amH45lam]

_"We're almost certainly going to have to install a screen protector, right out of the box."_ 😂

[@soroushkowsarian3364]

Bruh no need just put on sunscreen , that will do it

[@abystanderstandingby6769]

No need for screen protector, we'll have the technology capable of converting the very things that will kill us into necessary materials for building Dyson Swarm

[@prajwalkrishnabhat5539]

@@abystanderstandingby6769 man, your right but can you just shut up and not ruin the joke for others.

[@hasanmuttaqin464]

@@prajwalkrishnabhat5539 he ain't destroyin' the joke did he? i mean he's talking about sumthin else

[@erkeda12]

Fossil fuels are NOT the result of plants and animals being converted; so-called "fossil fuels" are the result of microbes releasing methane in vast quantities around 20-40 miles beneath the surface of the earth. Read THE DEEP HOT BIOSPHERE by Dr. Gold. Fascinating!

[@machiavellohermosillo8312]

"Scientists, science fiction authors, and underqualified youtubers" I laughed so hard at this part! This is the most entertaining video I've seen about the subject.

[@pigidly]

Just an idea. Why not build a “shield” that orbit around the sun with the same tech? Would be nice to have it protect us from potential solar flair’s by the same time.

[@laisensei6984]

That would be a much harder construction than actually build a Dyson sphere considering the size of the Sun.

[@mikemartel1988]

Gf

[@ballisticm0use72]

It would be better to just put one around earth

[@modzfordayz7657]

@@ballisticm0use72 emotional damage

[@HCG]

Because that’s extremely unnecessary and would take an insane amount of time and resources for hardly any benefit?

[@Needabbikewithstabilizers]

Love watching your programs and yes you should keep your mustache it's awesome

[@Kumofan]

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

[@wolfvale7863]

It wad Your scientists not ours.

[@Resident--a]

And now 🤜 you're gonna sell it 🤜 you're gonna sell it

[@KrappyPatty-ry6lj]

they should

[@An.Unsought.Thought]

Except in this case they can't but they absolutely should.

[@brandonlaverman1556]

Life finds a way

[@Arturopakastur]

Cats: meow Dogs: woof 9-year-olds: *FIRST FIRST.*

[@drakenpage6776]

No cats: *scratch and bite*

[@ELEcomments]

@@drakenpage6776 you have had bad experiences with cats. That's like saying dogs are bark and bite.

[@DMBlade4]

@@drakenpage6776 Cats are very good judges of character. If they don't like you, that would lead me to believe either you have a crap personality or you just don't know how to approach them

[@SonOfTheDevil666]

@@DMBlade4 Jep just ask my dad he don’t give a f about animals so his cat does the same as she bites him and scratches him that says that he does not know how to approach a cat

[@DMBlade4]

@@SonOfTheDevil666 If you don't like them, they can tell and they will not like you

[@brandonhiatt5373]

Civilizations who actually create Dyson spheres take about 80,000 years to do so. But it's a cool finished project, instant interstellar travel, impenatratable energy shields and powerful weapons.

[@TheTathaar]

Dyson spheres are an incredibly unlikely solution when compared to the recent advances in nuclear fusion.

[@Warhawk76]

"Would almost certainly be able to run Crysis" I seriously almost died laughing!!

[@m.t-thoughts8919]

It caught me of guard! 😂

[@dynamicflashy]

But would it be able to run Cyberpunk 2077?

[@unclejoe8313]

@@dynamicflashy still probably no we would have e to wait for the second version to come out so it can run cyberpunk

[@miguelviola7264]

Seriously??! The first game available for my PS 5000000 is GTA 5? C'mon!

[@alexisjuillard4816]

@@miguelviola7264 GTA VI will be available soon after the dyson sphere.

[@Akebi7204]

People be flexing their matrioshka brains in the future, running minecraft at a million fps

[@madongseoksbiceps]

*maaatryoshkaa*

[@alterworlds1629]

And Crisis at maybe 100 FPS, but that's a bit of a stretch.

[@josephcarter1920]

How would we play video games as a digital species? Hyper realistic VR? Ready player one stuff?

[@Rose_Harmonic]

@@josephcarter1920 Literally however you want. Simulate life as you experience it now, just have a window appear in front of you, or inside your simulated visual cortex. Turn the sky into your own computer screen, all that.

[@josephcarter1920]

@@Rose_Harmonic don't need food or sleep. I'll be living in skyrim😂😂 probably still be waiting for tes6

[@feralbluee]

fascinating, Arran. you’re just getting better and better. and you delve into so many spheres of study. thank you, sweetie. take good care. 😋🌷🌱💫

[@CannabisDreams]

A Dyson swarm would be more feasible, a swarm of millions of O'Neil cylinders could move with the sun's growth.

[@foxv3511]

I gotta say man the way you present your topics keeps me incredibly entertained and engaged. Also, you are very blunt and truthful instead of selling a sci-fi dream, you explain the dream and the reality of things. Keep up the amazing work!

[@Clauds1005]

Me: **watches entire video** Also me: i don't think Home Depot carries extension cords that are 1 astronomical unit long...

[@the_hanged_clown]

I am under the impression that due to some consequences of physics one would lose more than gain with such a length to resistance

[@Milkybetrayal]

@@the_hanged_clown just think of how thick that cable would have to be to account for the drop.

[@capo_di_capi]

No, im sure Dyson sells one!, it's just 4 quadrillion dollars.

[@skydivingisfun]

Just have to buy enough for a total length of 83,000,000 miles. Assuming 50ft cords thats 8,764,800,000 of them. At $20 each that's $175,296,000,000, not to bad in the grand scheme of things

[@the_hanged_clown]

@@skydivingisfun doing the important maths I see

[@nala3038]

As people, we love to grab onto these fantastic ideas, Dyson spheres are good fun to daydream about. In practice, it is about as practical as building the Titanic with toothpicks: 1. If you cover up the sun, all your geraniums will die. Your other flora-n-fauna will quickly follow. 2. The solar system doesn't contain enough of the necessary material to make one. 3. It would take too long. By the time we gained the technology, equipment and man hours, Dyson spheres would be a mute point. 4. Take a look at the surface of our moon. Constant bombardment doesn't fare well for tech projects you want to keep neat.

[@squeekydog8468]

Oh, I’m well aware of the importance of a Dyson Sphere. Without it, I’d struggle getting my vacuum from room to room

[@jaytin1284]

Everybody gangsta until he says "heey 42 here"

[@ronny7216]

Ahh, and just as I thought this would be sponsored by the new "Dyson Sphere Program" game.

[@kamillq]

great game

[@Joshua-dt2dh]

I wonder if we had that much much energy, we could make a gravitational targeting beam to pull in objects from long distances such as spaceships we built to bring it around our star to slingshot it to set locations or just gave a gravitional beam to also push the spaceship through gravity laws using the gravitational beam.

[@HumansAreShitFactories]

Read a science book

[@w12ath040211]

That's what I would do. Hide my dyson sphere behind a dust cloud. Just in case some scary aliens were watching me build one.

[@numb950]

Even if we had such a supercomputer it would be never able to run crisis..

[@teddys8975]

It wont run it, but you could live it

[@elijaholing]

" The matryoshka brain, might be able to finally run crysis." But can it run cyberpunk 2077?

[@Tom36907]

Definitely YES.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .. But at 13fps

[@digi1153]

@@Tom36907 Damn wait is this on console or on computer and is there slowdown? Because I haven’t heard much about any problems with computers.

[@jayhom5385]

It could run it, but could it run it stutter free?

[@An.Unsought.Thought]

Energy isn't the problem with Cyberpunk. Its Hardware requirements. We already have the hardware to run Cyberpunk at 100 FPS. Just have to build a pc.

[@UltimatePowa]

I can run it fine at 60 FPS with medium graphics on a 1070 TI in 4k

[@adityabaruah3529]

“A dyson Sphere powering a solar system sized computer might just be able to run crisis”

[@LuzAvendano-tj2gk]

You Sir, deserve all the follow in all and each of your social media sites. Period!

[@karateJeff88]

Just to add to this awesome video. A strong consensus believes that agriculture began before the knowledge of building fires. Yet fire was the real pivotal “level up” .

[@joelbibeault1169]

It was, otherwise we would've stayed as basically small tribes that farm. Supported by the fact that uncontacted tribes still exist today who grow food but haven't mastered fire

[@Dhardy316]

Happy holidays to everyone! I am so blessed for my fam and my brothers new sobriety

[@npcrah]

Happy holidays, and intense love and respect to your brother

[@sinistermountain6888]

Why da fuck do you have holidays

[@kuwaitisnotadeployment1373]

Right on! I have some experience with that sort of thing so out of personal experience I would urge you to go out of your way to be supportive and let him know how proud of him you are at every opportunity. I wish you and your family nothing but happiness ✌

[@Dhardy316]

@@sinistermountain6888 I dont know, ask the generation before

[@Dhardy316]

@@kuwaitisnotadeployment1373 For real, I just text him, but wouldnt of had you not adviced. I really miss him and am so excited to be with the brother he is remembered being, and he is that person again. I myself am an addict(never wont be again) so I can relate. Thank you and you made a difference with just a simple message of encouragement!

[@Gamerboi1027]

i feel like a better sponsor if the game was around at the time of release would be dyson sphere program

[@ragreon]

i as a dutch smoker (both tabacco and weed) really loved the get high joke. i really love your channel with lots of amazing facts, theorie's and lots of more interesting stuff. and the god level sarcasm and neat jokes make it even more enjoyable. i wonder if ray williams (an amazing roaster, and toaster since he makes toast of everyone) can roast ya. keep going man and btw, are you the god of sarcasm?

[@JanboelPe]

Someone has been watching Isaac Arthur.

[@mizzshortie907]

Ooo my fave

[@mikesmith1290]

Yeees!!

[@graham1034]

That's basically the TLDR, go watch Issac Arthur's channel for more info

[@fhsjdjskkshi]

@@graham1034 pog

[@capo_di_capi]

Well, I have a Dyson cordless Vacuum, that I then turned into a fusion reactor in my garage, which was then hooked up the engine of a Delorean, They called it Mr. Fusion, maybe you've heard of it.

[@devo2085]

human: *get to sun* will smith: ohhhh thats hot

[@desireer6915]

Thank you for making these videos. They honestly do make my days brighter! ❤

[@DatBoiOrly]

So basically we need a planet harvester before We build this :p

[@leviroch]

let's be honest. . . us humans would be waaaaaaaay better at creating a 'planet harvester' than we would at creating a 'universal energy producer'. . .

[@notthemama7296]

@@leviroch of course, in many cases, destruction is much easier than creation. Creating order out of disorder is usually easier.

[@ThePhant0m100]

Self replicating nano-bots that break everything down to it's base elements

[@Sam__ueI]

@@ThePhant0m100 fr fr

[@jacthing1]

@@Sam__ueI and then they gain sentience and end up murdering us all

[@dominikukawski7096]

It better be built by the Dyson the vacuum company

[@Steff_kjns]

Sucking up that sun power

[@richardgregory3684]

You can solve a lot of the problems by using a Dyson cloud; instead of a single solid structure, build as many space habitats as required , they would be independent but (eventually) form a huge swarm orbitting the sun. That does away with the improbable material required to build an actual spehere, and it would be resistant to meteors as whilst one or more habitats could be destroyed it wold not threaten the whole system. You could also build it incrementally, kind oflike cities formed here on earth. Instead of using the planets for materials, you could mine the sun for them. The sun holds over 99.8% of the solar system's mass (and most of the rest is Jupiter). You could use an insiginficant fraction of the sun's mass, extracting it magnetically. Of course you'd have to change it from hydrogen to something more useful, but by that time, we'd likely have the technology and energy resources to transmute elements of an industrial scale. You could kick things off by simply coverting Mercury into solar energy collection panels. These could orbit the sun much closer than the habitats and essentially give you unlimitted energy. And that itself could be kick started by building a few of them, and using the energy to build more; self replicating robot factories on Mercury, more panels=more energy=more panels, an exponential process. It is surprising how fast you could convert an entrie planet that way. And Mercury is convneiently positioned already, and is extremely rich in metals.

[@monhlante]

Im a medical doctor but wen u explain mediacal issues i do learn a lot. Ur research is flawless and with a lot of lighter moments. Im lauging to " the PS5 000 000" thats a gud one 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ebagtay1222]

Imagine the wars you could fight with that much energy!

[@rutgerb]

We could conquer the galaxy!

[@oscarwallenstein3678]

why is that what u think of lmfao

[@Nyo0]

@Drop tbh we wont need to because we could use all that energy to mine and colonize other planets solving our resource and land problems

[@daveboonen5041]

Yup sounds like us

[@ebagtay1222]

It would be... star wars.. ba dum tss

[@igitaq]

I've always wondered if the great cold spot in space wasn't the result of a series of Dyson Spheres.

[@maximkolomoec1793]

That’s an interesting thought.. but as we can see no gravitational influence in this space, I can say pretty confidently that there is nothing but a void..

[@greenyboimax10]

Well Dyson spheres simply collect energy that will be dispelled either way.

[@amylarson3958]

@@maximkolomoec1793 well, you just ruined that fantasy with logic.....so that means that Sackwatch(sp) don't exist ? Good remark. BTW. Just goofing around

[@dikdikmarzipan2819]

@@maximkolomoec1793 so that means either a. That void has been there since the Big bang or somewhere down the line, OR b. Some civilization did a big oopsie and made that cold spot.

[@woltagspeedruns3310]

Maybe next to using the solar energy of the stars, they figured out how to use the gravitational energy too, so they don't let that escape and influence the way we see the cold spot. (I know this would not be possible but I like the theory and want to keep it alive)

[@jand.4737]

Interesting video. Would you make make videos about other megastructures in the Stellaris style? Maybe ringworlds?

[@deathisonlythebeginning5098]

Every video I hear: Forty-Two. No matter how hard I try to hear Thoughty2.

[@jacobmason543]

Rumor has it that the PS5,000 will use enough energy to function as a gaming console and a barbecue at the same time!

[@soroushkowsarian3364]

It's evolving just backwards

[@Lex--gk4xp]

And a room heater!

[@MrGoremuffin]

That already exists, the kfc console

[@tannernotter3857]

*KFC CONSOLE; Hold my beer *

[@sephypantsu]

@@MrGoremuffin well, we all know the console is a bit behind the PC master race

[@Patrick_of_SouthTown]

How do we know we aren’t currently linked into the PS5000000 and not realizing we’re from the future and not apart of the past is a feature of the game?

[@KrystianRuadan]

If a new country becomes suddenly available to us we can safely assume we are... and that DLC has been released! ;)

[@ARISTO_Music]

Bruh that "can it run Crysis" joke killed me.... good one

[@dummyquiccc9695]

Bro I’m not going to lie, I thought this was about the big lights hanging by the ceiling in Blackreach.

[@davidjamerson2777]

There is an alternative to the aforementioned Dyson Sphere that would actually be more efficient for harnessing energy: The Dyson Cloud.

[@vickeygaming1660]

If that is a possibility, that could be what's around tabbys star. Right?

[@ballisticm0use72]

It's called a Dyson swarm

[@TheBrowniesOwn]

The dyson swarm concept with a series of satellites gradually growing in number seems plausible. I wonder how many of them you would need to launch before you started to get any return.

[@VitalHonet98]

42

[@rubenst2008]

@@VitalHonet98 42 as a minimum. But to be on the save side of things I would opt for OVER NINE THOUSAAAND.

[@mrbuttocks6772]

Just two doubling cycles.

[@jocelynndotson7273]

With spacex, that could be completed in as little as a few years

[@bibbabobba6202]

“Whether for nutrition, heat or just to get high” is my new favorite line ever

[@bassboostlegend]

Rain when it gets evaporated: *clicks respawn*

[@ShinryuZensen]

Also.... Scientists are attempting to build a "pocket sun" here on Earth. Put a mini-Dyson sphere on that, and you might have a mighty power generator.

[@briangurrola2448]

The man who will make this will also have 8 octopus robot arms connected to his spine

[@ShinryuZensen]

@@briangurrola2448 I hope not! :D not until some kid gets bitten by a radioactive spider...

[@Trtevoorryu]

@@briangurrola2448 was just going to comment the same thing lol!

[@dainbramage781]

I hear the words “Dyson Sphere” and I immediately think of the Star Trek TNG episode where they discover Scotty from the original series stuck in a transporter on a ship that crashed onto the surface of one.

[@SF-fb6lv]

@Steven Gandy: I keep thinking 'vacuum cleaner'...

[@thetruegame2383]

star trek fans are all here!

[@infinignite]

Immagine thousands and thousands of years later when in an postapocalyptic world with endless wars for energy someone watches this and is like: *ah yes, what we didnt do*

[@mamasimmerplays4702]

A ring swarm would orbit the sun in a flat plane like the rings of Neptune. But once you start going out of plane, you have bodies that need to cross the plane twice each orbit. In a structural sphere that isn't an issue because everything is held in place, but in a non-structural swarm you're going to need to plan everything perfectly to prevent collisions as they cross the equator.

[@ChatBot1337]

I dunno, but getting my starship out would be up to Scotty.

[@BrainInteractive]

This must have been how the forerunners charged the Halo rings

[@gilgamesh310]

Except they’re not around stars and are much smaller.

[@pearcehubbart3767]

That's a cool idea though. In a series called old man's war there is an advanced alien race that has an enslaved red dwarf star. Everyone leaves them alone because "you don't fuck with people who have stars as toys"

[@joxerd]

If I remember correctly in Halo 4 we travel to the core of Requiem, which look be inside of a dyson sphere.

[@gilgamesh310]

@@joxerd I'm just about to start replaying that. I'll see if that's true.

[@ffggddss]

Yes, almost all our energy sources ultimately originate from the Sun. Coal, oil, nat. gas, of course; wind, hydro, solar (obviously), even ocean thermal. But there are exceptions - nuclear and geothermal are directly from the Earth, never having originated in the Sun; merely from the proto-planetary cloud that formed the Sun and planets. Which in turn, came from prehistoric supernovae. But in that sense, the Sun itself came from those. Fred

[@JonSmithchannel]

I think the theory advanced civilisations destroy themselves long before they are able to become multi planetary and build such space structures is correct.

[@wadeguidry6675]

"Or just to get high" LMAO!