• @Anticorp
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    71 year ago

    Hold up! Isn’t a Dyson sphere pretty low maintenance once it’s built?

    • @Fedizen
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      1 year ago

      I doubt it. A structure like that would be an enourmous engineering project pummeled by solar radiation on the inside and space debris on the outside.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      I guess it would depend on the temperature resistance and how the power is transmitted. Even solar panels wear out, and the collection surfaces of a dyson sphere would be a lot higher temp. But with something that scale, I’d imagine it would be a ton of maintenance work even if was a tiny amount per area.

    • @schema
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      21 year ago

      I mean wouldn’t you still have to maintain the electrics of a sun sized surface? I guess you could use its own power for maintenance robots…

      • @Anticorp
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        11 year ago

        All I know is that Picard’s Enterprise found a long abandoned Dyson Sphere and it was still functional.