Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
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Re: Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
#2I am such a sucker for technical Aspie writing. I've seen it mistaken for LLM output many times but this is not that.
Re: Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
#3I encourage Dyson sphere enthusiasts to listen to the interesting argument that Dyson spheres they may be deliberately designed as an "sounds neat but is impossible" filter joke, ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzEX1TPBFM .
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#4> The shell is not merely a strength structure; it is a fixed logistics skeleton. Its purpose is to provide: dense distributed launch/capture corridors large-scale routing geometry attachment points for high-temperature radiator fields buffering volume for material and coolant traffic alignment and vibration-control structure for the mature transport system...
Roger that
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#5Stuff like this is why I read HN
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#6Does Mercury not have any useful radioactive material to provide more power?
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#7Does Mercury not have any useful radioactive material to provide more power?
I guess it might. I wouldn't plan on it without a very detailed survey though, to say the least. Whereas solar is definitely right there. (And you still have to worry about cooling either way.)
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#8I am such a sucker for technical Aspie writing. I've seen it mistaken for LLM output many times but this is not that.
its not? how can you tell?
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#9> The mirror fleet does not increase the total power available to the project; Mercury still intercepts only a fixed amount of sunlight.
I think I must be missing something important, because this doesn't make sense to me. If you put your mirrors in orbits where they don't block the dayside surface (sun-synchronous?), then they increase the total surface area receiving solar radiation.
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#10this seems to ignore the fact that Mercury is way too deep in Sol’s gravity well to be useful, all it’s looking at is Mercury mass.