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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Our local AI expert BillK and I have had a lively interesting exchange regarding my notions on M-Brains (or Dyson swarms (depending on who or what.)) BillK asked ChatGPT, which came back with some interesting comments. I have cheerfully invited that lad to forward the list the entire discussion. Since BillK initiated that offlist discussion, I am treating it as his intellectual property, but I do hope he forwards all of it, for a reason: it demonstrates the strength and weaknesses of AI when dealing in novel concepts. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>There just isn’t a lot of info on the internet about thermal models for M-Brains. Robert perished before he could publish much of anything on it. I had green bound notebooks full of hand calcs I did while he was here. However… I didn’t write papers the topic and now it is likely too late for that. Family circumstances necessitated my cleaning out a room in my house to make room for an elderly relative. Among the casualties of that cleanout were a stack of my green books, for I realized the detailed analysis on M-Brains will now be the responsibility of the next generation of futurist engineers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Given all that, the existing space engineers will get nowhere on M-Brain analysis until they recognize this is an entirely new thing, where their traditional software and mathematical tools do not necessarily apply. The software and math models we space cases have always used are for one spacecraft, one very hot spot and one warm spot. The moon is a second warm spot but seldom matters in thermal analysis. There are no scholarly papers online that I know of where any serious space case has done a deep analysis of what happens when some ET figures out how to make an M-Brain and what engineering challenges go with it. Consequently… ChatGPT doesn’t know how to do it either.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Fun parting shot: we are now at a level of technology where we could start making an M-Brain. We can come up with plausible designs now. We are not waiting for any new tech.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>spike <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>