Timeline for What would make a star good for star lifting?
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| S May 25, 2020 at 2:29 | history | bounty ended | HDE 226868♦ | ||
| S May 25, 2020 at 2:29 | history | notice removed | HDE 226868♦ | ||
| May 22, 2020 at 11:06 | answer | added | Ishaan Masil | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 13:09 | answer | added | Noam Josephides | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 9:57 | comment | added | Philipp | What about letting the star work for you and harvest solar wind? | |
| May 19, 2020 at 5:39 | answer | added | Mr. Anderson | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 0:33 | vote | accept | HDE 226868♦ | ||
| S May 18, 2020 at 19:12 | history | bounty started | HDE 226868♦ | ||
| S May 18, 2020 at 19:12 | history | notice added | HDE 226868♦ | Reward existing answer | |
| May 14, 2020 at 21:40 | comment | added | Willk | I am curious why parties interested in hydrogen and helium would not obtain them from a cool gas giant. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 21:37 | comment | added | user69935 | @HDE226868 This video is a few years old and may not be the authors current thoughts but using red giants is mentioned here, at 23:30 ish youtube.com/watch?v=pzuHxL5FD5U | |
| May 14, 2020 at 20:24 | answer | added | el duderino | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 14, 2020 at 16:46 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | Wait... you’re asking us a question about astrophysics? I.. I’m not sure I can handle this kind of pressure! | |
| May 14, 2020 at 14:32 | comment | added | user69935 | @HDE226868 I would have agreed with your assessment of a lower gravity star, A red giant is less dense I believe so may be better for lifting and if you are harvesting light they will provide more energy to power the magnets to over come the gravity? | |
| May 14, 2020 at 14:30 | comment | added | AlexP | @StephenG: To faze (= "to frighten", "to disturb") and to phase are different words. The former is a good old Anglo-Saxon word with cognates in other Germanic languages; the latter is a learned borrowing from Greek through Latin. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 14:18 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | @RandySavage In an effort to keep the question as narrow as can be, I'd like to keep the method I've got, though I will keep that in mind for the future. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 14:16 | comment | added | user69935 | If you set up Dyson swarm mirrors to collect the light, according to an Isaac Arthur video the larger stars will provide enough energy to strip them faster, an advanced enough civilization could change the size of stars by controlling their output and metal rich stars might be popular for lifting their resources. | |
| May 14, 2020 at 14:15 | history | edited | HDE 226868♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added clarification.
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| May 14, 2020 at 14:12 | comment | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | Any civilization ready to start starlifting is surely not going to phased by problem like dealing with extremely hot plasma or generating huge magnetic fields on a vast scale or storing the resulting material. These are minimum requirements for even considering starlifting. Could you clarify what you mean by "star" here : brown dwarf to red giant is quite a range, so what's their target size ? | |
| May 14, 2020 at 13:43 | history | asked | HDE 226868♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |