What Would Happen If We Built a Real Dyson Sphere?

[@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?

[@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

[@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/

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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?"

[@NatureUpvoted]

@@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"

[@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.

[@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.....

[@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

[@duramirez]

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

[@duramirez]

@@trillpaint3001 xD

[@TanismanTwo12508]

\o/ | / \

[@yuridapted7459]

"Take the plunge"

[@p_ggs]

"Try long finger but hole"

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@tylenolthecrayola]

Cereal is good

[@onpointgaming1070]

Literally just commented about this lmaoooo

[@youtubeterminatedmyaccount8882]

Definitely

[@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.

[@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]

😂🤣😂

[@plumber1337]

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

[@Mr.N0B0DY.3D]

always has been

[@SwarumtheForum]

the powerhouse of the sphere

[@lazyturtle284]

And always will be

[@Cody.357]

Now hold on a second what

[@daner8878]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@The-Singularity-X01]

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]

@@The-Singularity-X01 you’re not going to find all those resources In any single location

[@AshKetchin]

"A screen protector right out of the box" 😆😂😂 please don't ever lose the sense of humor in your videos.

[@MelonianEmperor]

"Some are even sure, it could run crysis" Now that is a JOKE xD

[@guyinaroom7771]

Fax it adds so much value, these videos make me learn so much faster and better than school thanks both to the high production quality but mainly his personality

[@John-qh5dv]

Reasons to watch for beginners 1. Free knowledge 2. Thoughty2's humour never fails

[@marcelloberry6829]

“Interesting in a kind of *soil yourself* terrifying way”

[@bobthompson4319]

@@MelonianEmperor that's what I was going to say under this comment. Perfect

[@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

[@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!

[@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

[@The-Singularity-X01]

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

[@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.....

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@CorporateBillionaire]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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?

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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?

[@ronny7216]

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

[@kamillq]

great game

[@devo2085]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@The-Singularity-X01]

Just two doubling cycles.

[@jocelynndotson7273]

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

[@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)

[@jaytin1284]

Everybody gangsta until he says "heey 42 here"

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@Jacket-b9t]

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

[@busterhikney6936]

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

[@trillpaint3001]

"It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature" Happy Birthday Tesla!

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@chaslaspata5385]

😭😂 OMG I almost choked on my coffee when the little fish farted!!! You make awesome videos. Please keep up the excellent work my friend!

[@fathersongaming8515]

If this Dyson sphere works the way it's described I would imagine it would be much like a black hole. With the ability to absorb all energy I can imagine that it would very closely resemble black holes.

[@marveloussoftware4914]

Maybe that what a black hole is. Disclaimer: i don't believe so. But perhaps intelligent aliens found the best way to collect energy is to build dyson spheres around the strongest stars in the center of galaxies. And they are trying to keep us out just like we try to keep ants out of our house.

[@darkartprojects5749]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@Kuwaitisnot_adeployment]

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]

@@Kuwaitisnot_adeployment 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!

[@travispotter2860]

When he said we might be a simulation right now that really hit me some people really be glitches out here “we live in a video game world”

[@thegentlemanreturned]

14:51 Man creates computer with limitless power. Computer: What is my purpose? Man: You run DOOM. Computer: Why, God? Why?!

[@BarefootMediaTV]

when thoughty's thoughts go way over my head

[@user-br6cu5jm1q]

Seems like we wouldn't need a full sphere just partial collectors will help immensely.

[@biggavelle11]

Tabby’s star is a distant parallel universe where we’ve already created a Dyson sphere

[@nikispaintingsilence3287]

@@askhams what is that?! you literally doubled down on the hoover joke haha :D

[@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.

[@thymythymyth]

Got a Dyson ad in the middle and I didn’t expect it

[@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.

[@animistchannel2983]

This is the kind of stuff we look at every week over on "Isaac Arthur" channel. It's fun to plot the lines between the fantastical, the possible, the potential, the probable, and the inevitable. So many ways to plan our futures!

[@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.

[@starminer5591]

Who has come here as a result of the factory-building game that came out recently? Hooray for Dyson Sphere Program!

[@dominikukawski7096]

It better be built by the Dyson the vacuum company

[@Steff_kjns]

Sucking up that sun power

[@IamCoalfoot]

What about an inverted Dyson Spere? I.E. A shell that keeps a layer of Hydrogen fuel outside of itself with gravity, like if you took a star and hollowed out the center, so instead of uncontrolled fusion, you can have the thing made of reactors and use that fuel as you need it? I imagine you would need to deal with the byproducts somehow, but that seems like an efficient way to make your fuel last longer, rather than getting more out of it instantly.

[@ryanseager123456789]

the issue with that is you couldn't really do that to our star as we still need it to live so you'd need to travel to another solar system which comes with travel times and costs. Then you need to get all the material there which would take more time and energy. Even if you could do that, there's a good chance gravity would crush it or it would just melt without the right resources. Then you need to replace parts and you can't send a team of engineers to the center of a sun. It would just be easier to build a Dyson swarm/sphere around our own sun

[@marveloussoftware4914]

If you kept the hydrogen fuel outside then you wouldn't have the gravity to generate fusion. You'd have a brown dwarf, only much bigger.

[@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?

[@joeysduckieseighteen]

i don’t watch for the facts. i watch for the “hey, thoughty2 here” and the sarcasm.

[@jolion]

You sir, are A1!! Keep up the invaluable work! Much love.

[@timetravelingguy]

so much to learn from him

[@ultimate_pleb]

Dyson sphere: *exists* Humanity: u n l i m i t e d POWER!

[@FlankingJet]

it doesnt exist tho

[@ZynnBeats]

Yeah your comment is too early

[@ZynnBeats]

Check back in another 1000 years

[@michaeljones7465]

@@FlankingJet Asteroid belt is the natural foundation to build on.

[@FlankingJet]

@@michaeljones7465 it still doesnt exist tho

[@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?

[@wadeguidry6675]

"Or just to get high" LMAO!

[@ChatBot1337]

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

[@Arturopakastur]

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

[@drakenpage777]

No cats: *scratch and bite*

[@ELEcomments]

@@drakenpage777 you have had bad experiences with cats. That's like saying dogs are bark and bite.

[@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

[@BiggsTheOwl]

First

[@hunterhowe5324]

@@DMBlade4 or animals are animals and we shouldn't keep them ?

[@Baleur]

12:40 not entirely true either, you could "starlift" the sun to get all materials required, without noticeably changing its total mass or luminosity. If you have the technology to make a dyson sphere, you also have the technology to capture and transmute the basic elements into denser elements.

[@The-Singularity-X01]

Doing that would require energy we wouldn't have access too if we're starting from zero. Making a Dyson Swarm(not a sphere, solid shell just wouldn't work) isn't particularly high tech. We have the tech to make one RIGHT NOW. The energy and material investment however, is ludicrous for a civilization at our level.

[@basimaziz]

Excellent video, great analysis, very detailed. I appreciate this. All the juicy details of how demanding such a project would be. And I say go for it~. 16:20 Build it for future generations. Let's build that *Dyson Swarm* boys! Yeeeeah... Yeah, I don't think we can do the sphere. Just settle for the Swarm. A fraction of a Dyson Sphere is still a LOT of energy.

[@iceyguide8416]

Thoughty2: Changes his thumbnail + title 4 million times a day

[@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!

[@LuzAvendano-tj2gk]

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

[@bokumetsu]

Dyson Sphere Program has you doing just this! Hope this gets seen so more people can experience it :D

[@datastorm75]

I think Dyson Spheres are ridiculous. By the time you have the capacity to build one, you have already moved beyond the need to do so.

[@historysyourbestfriend5500]

But they’re cool.

[@Covesthur]

but let's build them anyway.

[@Thatsweat]

Bro then where will we get our energy?

[@ballisticm0use72]

You don't build one all at once. We could start right now (or more realistically in a few decades) and just build more satellites as we need them

[@selenivee]

@@Thatsweat Well if you have the technology and resources to make one, I doubt energy would be a problem.

[@bl4cklainer35]

"some think it would be able to run crisis" *hum... I see a man of culture*

[@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

[@mikothem]

The dyson swarm: am i a joke to you?

[@des1990]

Dyson hexagon: am i a joke to you?

[@gmork1090]

Drinking a bit of energy from a black hole to power everything for a trillion trillion trillion years in a fraction of the time/resources to make and utilize a dyson ANYTHING: Laughs hysterically.

[@mikothem]

@@gmork1090 the black hole bomb?

[@U-Trance]

Ive always thought about this as an energy source even when i was a kid, glad to know its got a name and alot of research on it allready!

[@zachsuarez1830]

There’s literally no research on it, he just extends this forever

[@Name..........]

@@zachsuarez1830 not too mention we don't have the resources on our planet too make that. Lol

[@ZylethXenocian]

TO SAVE HUMANITY WE MUST HARNESS THE POWER OF ARGENT ENERGY.

[@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.

[@Muninn_og_Dauði]

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! ;)

[@darinbermudes8146]

This is just the video to put you to sleep , thanks .better than the rain stuff

[@kollectorjay]

"Just because you can do something , doesn't always mean you should"

[@Azamat421]

@Frieda Guismann it would blow up

[@kollectorjay]

Agreed it'll either overload or contribute to an already finite sun burning out quicker. Like its a brilliant idea. Just like AI . But as always humans think if we understand the surface of a topic and how to make it we understand its entirety.