Timeline for Terraform Mars or Dyson Ring?
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Sep 30, 2017 at 1:24 | comment | added | Thucydides | Minimum mass for a sun girdling construct. You can make much bigger and more massive constructs, using more material. And yes. the Dyson bubble or swarm can be made with little or no input from Earth, and beam its energy output to anywhere in the Solar System, | |
Sep 28, 2017 at 18:04 | comment | added | sphennings | The mass you referenced is the maximum mass allowable for a Dyson Bubble not the minimum. That is the mass where a 100% reflective bubble will be kept in place by solar pressure and not collapse into the sun. | |
Sep 28, 2017 at 17:06 | comment | added | anon | Is this achievable with only resources from the belt. Sure there could be some from the Earth but the implied idea is that the Earth isn't the factory or primary resource provider. Others have argued that the belt's mass is minute so a whole sphere may not be realistic. Also if they are just simple reflective disks you have to consider collection as a construct of this array as the Earth would melt if it were the collection point. | |
Sep 28, 2017 at 16:59 | history | answered | Thucydides | CC BY-SA 3.0 |