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slickhedstrong t1_iyb2gyf wrote

Reply to comment by eliochip in Astronomers Worldwide Troubled by New 'Cell Phone Towers in Space' by IslandChillin

the best we can do is a dyson ring. a few millimeters thick. and even then, we'd be mining interstellar rocks after exhausting all the useable matter in both asteroid belts. most of the matter in our solar system is in the sun's core

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DrunkenOnzo t1_iyb7mvr wrote

Nonsense. If we're digging up all that earth, that means smaller earth. Smaller earth = smaller dyson sphere. It's all up sides bby

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slickhedstrong t1_iyb9yv2 wrote

i thought dyson spheres were around the star?

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DrunkenOnzo t1_iybbcf6 wrote

Then it’d be called a Star Sphere. Dyson Spheres protect vacuums, the sun doesn’t even have settled dust.

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nIBLIB t1_iyb7nzh wrote

I don’t know if it’s perfectly accurate, but I have heard the solar system described as 98% Sun, 1% Jupiter, and 1% everything else.

Given that all the other planets combined don’t quite make up half of Jupiter’s mass, that second 1% might be generous.

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KeaboUltra t1_iyd1w3d wrote

Most of the models discuss deconstructing mercury to gather the necessary matter rather than space rocks. And it would be a swarm, so i guess similar to a ring but wouldn't require mega structures, just tons of small satellites

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