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Buy space exploration technologies company stock BUY BUY BUY
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>>62359800
kek
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>>62359800
will that thing cast a shadow on my backyard? my petunias need the sunlight
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>>62359800
This may be controversial but I think we will see a Dyson Sphere within our lives.

Technology is exponential. Look how long we spent in the Dark Ages with basic mathematics and science then we hit the industrial revolution and in a few hundred of years we are here.

Now with the AI revolution things will happen even faster. Technology enables us to do things faster, better, and more efficiently. With AI we will be travelling between planets regularly in just a few decades.

It might sound crazy but so would a smart phone 200 years ago.
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>>62359829
I hope not, it's terribly ugly. Futurists really don't seem to have any aesthetic sense whatsoever. What point is there in traveling to other planets if the people going there are hideous and uglify everything they touch?
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When is Elon going to build a Mass Relay to the Citadel? I need some blue Asari ass
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>space exploration technologies
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>>62359829
Unless we get real Artificial Superintelligence soon you can forget about that.
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>>62359841
inaneh compootah
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>>62359800
Yes.
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EDS trannies will literally say this is fake, but it's real and it's happening. 10,000 Starship launches per year by 2028, the dyson sphere is happening
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>>62359800
kek
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>>62359800
By 2027 none the less!!!!
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They will build special space radiators of carbon and shit and lasers
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>>62359800
Who's gonna build it? Mexicans?
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>>62359836
its not about beauty, its about turning energy into compute
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>>62359836
How often do you look at the sun
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>>62360362
AI ROBOTS
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>>62359829
Absolutely no chance. A Dyson sphere isn't a single monolithic structure, it's a series of maybe trillions of separate space habitats, some connected together as islands and archipelagos, and many (but not all) spinning for artificial gravity.
It isn't built as one big project, it grows organically as the population it sustains increases. A Dyson sphere can support somewhere in the realm of 50 quintillion people, and our population increases roughly 1-3% per year. Even if you account for people intentionally reproducing much more frequently and living longer, the need for a full Dyson sphere is still a really, really long way away.

I think it is plausible but unlikely that we could build a rotating space habitat (O'Neill cylinder) in an L4 or L5 solar orbit in our lifetimes. But it will largely come down to real estate prices. Once it's cheaper to build in space than to buy land on Earth, we'll start doing it. There are a lot of key technology steps we're waiting on to make it affordable. Mining the asteroid belt is a big one, but I argue that the biggest problem is launch costs. Once we have a more efficient way to get things into space, the cost of building up there drops enormously. Probably the most feasible option right now is a tethered ring space launcher like from Project Atlantis, but it still has a lot of problems. One day we will likely have a series of orbital rings around the Earth which make getting up into orbit as easy and cheap as catching a train.

But don't misunderstand me, the future of humanity is absolutely in space. It's almost certain that one day the supermajority of humanity will live in rotating space habitats rather than on planets.
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>>62359800
He's trying to get to mars which is much closer and in the opposite direction. A dyson sphere the size of the sun would not be possible there isn't enough material available on our planet to construct even half of a ring.
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>>62359825
We'll build it just beyond Mars' orbit, so only outer planets shitters will be caught in the shade
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The solar datacenter could power everything we need. Youtube, facebook, and x. It's literally free.
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>>62360306
By 2017. Musk's engineers will build a time machine.



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