[ExI] upon pondering your next million years

[Damien Broderick]

At 09:46 PM 7/13/2008 -0700, Spike wrote:

>The Matrioshka terminology suggests solid shells within shells, but rather
>the M-Brain consists of individual unconnected nodes, orbiting at different
>distances from the star in what are actually an enormous number of
>concentric rings of nodes rather than shells.

But you've left out the notion of consecutive optimized swarms 
*sucking up what's being radiated outward, the left-over solar 
goodness emitted in degraded form from the next shell/swarm inward, 
and so on until beyond, say, Neptunian orbital radius they're down to 
shooing away dregs hardly above 3deg K.

Like a three dimensional rainbow ball, sort of. Awwwwww.

Damien Broderick