[ExI] Alien Civilizations May Only Be Detectable For A Cosmic Blink Of An Eye

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of John Clark via extropy-chat
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> If you care about communicating with other uploads without too much delay, then you want to be as close to neighbors as you can. 

 

>…If you're worried about that then you want to make your Dyson sphere or swarm as small as possible.  

 

John K Clark

 

 

 

 

Ja, and that optimization has thermal consequences.

 

Consider a design which has a ring of nodes around a star like ours, out at 1 AU, say 10 mm diameter nodes spaced at 10 cm apart.  That ring has about 10 trillion nodes.  If that ring exists, then a second similar ring with an orbit 10 cm longer, tilted about one nano radian from the other would benefit the first ring.  Those two rings would benefit each other.  

 

Think about that notion for a minute before we move on to the next step, refute if you wish, for I can’t think of any good argument against it.  The two rings could benefit each other potentially, and at very worst would be neutral toward each other, existing in kind of a win-draw situation, but far more likely a win-win.

 

spike  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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