How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ธ.ค. 2018
- If humans want to expand into space, it will take us incredible amounts of energy. How do we do that? Easy: we will just use the sun’s energy by realizing the most ambitious construction project in history. This is how it works.
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I'm in love with space stuff :)
yeet
Why is there only so little likes
Are you a scientist.also why arent we creating the railgun thingy now?
i like the type of style you did with the video
"did you do it?"
"Yes"
"What did it cost?"
"Mercury"
Earth: Mercury may die, but it's a sacrifice... _I_ am willing to make.
WHAT DID YOU DO TO MERCURY
I come back to this video sometimes just for this comment
RIP mercury
Sometimes Kurzgesagt make the dumbest videos like this one . No civilization would go to the trouble of making a dyson sphere when you can just make a computer to simulate the universe and the simulated occupants of said universe would never grow old , be sick or die ...that is why we don't detect Aliens because they shed biology long ago .
"Where is Mercury?"
"Gone. Reduced to mirrors."
lol good comment
psychological torture
Lol
Reduced to Dyson sphere
what if... we just use the actual element Mercury as mirrors?
Great tutorial! Been having trouble building these recently. I think ive got the hang of it now
Lol
lmfao
That's why the power bill dropped okay thanks bro
When I was building one at home, I had an issue with transporting the energy produced over long distances. No need to worry, this video was a great tutorial explaining how mirrors could be used to reflect the sun light to the collectors. It is a great school project. I fully recommend it. lol
Wow I just suck at building one than. Got a D for the project. I was able to explain the process but I was not being 247% efficient with my power.
Hi guys! I am from the year 5024 and this tutorial helped me build the dyson sphere. It works
hi hope my descendant see my comment here
Hi oxydra from 3000 years in the future!
Hey, did my indie animation ever become a real thing??? Please tell me! I’m gonna start animating soon!
"Hey Grandma. What happened to the 8th planet?"
"We strip mined it out of existence"
Gone reduce to atom
2809JK lol
Gone, Reduced to atoms
re
krystian k how?
the suns gravity was too weak on it?
Kurzgesagt : Do you wanna know how to build a Dyson Sphere?
Me, a teenager, eating boiled potatoes with ketchup and Mountain Dew at 3am : Yes, I do.
I'm supposed to be doing gcse chemistry work, so I guess I'm not too off topic, right?
I can smell a potential Jojo reference
@@bevvy.bee9 Get the fuck off my lawn.
You boiled potatoes at 3am
@@Dockboy-ie4yu Boiled them twice, because I was stupid enough to cut them partially raw, and had to boil them AGAIN.
Thank you for this guide! I made my own at home and the results have been very positive so far!
Oh same
Wait what
H-how big is your hoise?
As a time traveler, this video is absolutely correct. Very impressive
No
@@TarrareyoutubeOFyes
Have mars and venus been terraformed
@@mikemoore9092 Eh, sort of. We destroyed them for natural resources and transfered them to habitable planets
how can I time travel?:)
I think Kurzgesagt are a group of time travelers from the future and they've been telling us how to survive.
Issac Arthur.
You’re welcome 😉
Me too man, me too.
basically yeah
Laura Holmes nope, it’s simply logic.
still he gets sponsored XD
“Grandpa! We learned about all 7 planets today!”
*Me on the verge of tears* “Good for you grandson.”
We should promote Pluto so we still have 8 planets
@@BlueEngland sadly pluto does not pass the test of becoming a planet
@@cosmichorizon3273 then let’s add mass to it lmao
@@CosmicNexus_ haha asteriod go boom, oh look now Pluto has a larger mass and it's big enough to be a planet instead of a dwarf!
@@CosmicNexus_ smart boy, but we’ll need to be a type two civilization to do that. So lets wait for a hundred thousand years for that,hell maybe a million due to politicians
When I was a little boy and I learned about solar power I often would think about how pointless it was to have solar collectors on the ground when we could just have them in space! Even better if we could have them around the sun itself! I never had a word for describing this until I was in high school when I came across the idea of Dyson spheres I got disappointed it wasn’t an original idea but also super happy someone else thought of it too and became super curious about far-future technologies ever since! Dyson spheres are my favorite!
Mercury: "I'm scared of nothing."
"But that thing..."
*Dyson Sphere*
*_"It scares me."_*
1 like and no comments? Not anymore
Mighty impressive that Mercury wouldn't be afraid of the sun... but the Dyson Sphere?
It better be praying.
theoretical physicists: its not just possible, its easy
engineers: am i a joke to you
Maybe building it is easy but you have to safe the energy you can just put it into a power grid
Wee need Robotic engineers
Those poor designers
Getting the attention of big companies for funding megastructures. That is the hardest part
Saving resources from being wasted on bombs that the higher ups use to destroy eachother
**teleports behind Mercury**
Earth: Nothing personal, kid.
Hahaha
Hehe
It’s just orbit mate.
FrizzleLamb ahahahahaha
*nothing personnel
7:26 "our attention is too often focused on short-term political gains and conflicts that will not matter in the long run"
THIS phrase is why I think humanity should be leaded by scientist and intellectuals, people that is actually interested in progress and see the big picture
Thanks! Finally a useful and fun DIY project. Power bills have been getting more expensive lately and this seems like a perfect solution.
"MOM, PHINEAS AND PHERB ARE SENDING GIANT MIRRORS TO THE SUN!"
Lol
and tommorow everybody goes to proxima centauri
But where is Perry.
@@lunaticranger6532 Meanwhile, Perry the Platypus is off trying to stop Dr. Doofenschmirtz from siphoning the solar energy to power his inators so he never has to go to the store to buy batteries ever again. Mua-ha-ha-ha.
underrated comment
"If we don't destroy ourselves.."
gotta love the honesty
That one hit where it hurts.
@@sarvashaktimaan7106 XD
That's where the video stops. We all know that's gonna happen :D
Yes, if we don't commit such world war iii
HandMade By Holly I just herd it when I looked at this
Its insane to think back to when I first saw this and was blown away by some of these pretty shots of the swarm, only to come back now and see it as almost unprofessional compared to what they make now. Insane. Lovely video, keep up the amazing work. :)
Imagine what this channel will look like in ten years
@@josho7138Imagine what this channel will look like after we built a Dyson Sphere.
I remember a couple years ago I had a paper due for a paper in English class. It had to be about something that doesn’t exist yet but one day could. I remembered watching this video before and was immediately inspired to write about a Dyson sphere. 100% on the paper - thanks Kurzgesagt!
You ever realize how amazing a kurzgesagt style survival game would be
Civilisation type game or maybe space agency type game
I thought you were talking about if you were the ducks.
play stellaris
uhhh.. play Stellaris bro
@@MarcosVinicius-hs6cs my man
Planets in the solar system:
1980: 9
2020: 8
3020: 7
Elon mUsk:
200000000: 5
Meanwhile Elon musk: nooooooooo I can’t colonise mars
😂😂😂
999999999999999999999999: -999999
69696969: 69
Thanks for this quick tutorial. I'm excited to get started with this fun project.
"if you're like us and enjoy using the power of science to determine absurd ways to destroy stuff you might want to hear how you can come up with something like that yourself" truly awesome quote
Sexy...🗿🗿
Earth giving a speech to all the planets
"some of you may die, (eyes mercury) but that's a risk im willing to take"
maybe only half of mercury will die
@@supernova5434 hoping for the best👍💯
Mercury:
*shitshitshitshit*
Destiny 2 intensifies
Z_THETA_Z ({_Z_}NoobOid) you play destiny too?
Congratulations!
You've reached "Atomic Age"
Energy +500
Likelihood of Annihilation +35%
Anyone else actually want this game? Someone should make it.
Yea
Lol . quite ducking true though ..
U mean civilization
Its already done and its called Civilization...
Civilization V
I wonder, would it be possible to use such mirrors to focus more sunlight on, say, Mars to heat it up and thus helping to terraform it? Kinda like a huge magnifying glass.
I mean, we'd only need to set up some sort of protection against radiation and solar storms, somehow create an atmosphere and get enough water on Mars to make it habitable...
ooh ooh! laser mars until it has a molten core to make a magnetic field, (i think that’s why it doesn’t idk i’m not doing research rn) and then radiation isn’t an issue :D
obviously this is a joke but it’s funny to think about
Kurgesztat has a video on your idea, sort of
You're just repeating the info from a different kurzgesagt video, pretending like it's an original idea to get likes
@@Pablo-yd6gc No one with half a brain gives a shit about likes.
@@Pablo-yd6gcyour just throwing out assumptions for absolutely no reason
Thanks for the tutorial! Every step is very throughly described and easy to follow. Just finished my ringworld so I'm excited to start powering it!
Plot twist: he’s an alien giving us a tutorial
Lol
Lol
Lol
Lol
Lol
Elon Musk : *watches video*
Also Elon : *im buying mercury*
Kevin Godec honestly would be amazing and he would be the man to want to get something like this started lul. Love ya Elon
Not gonna lie really wish he'd do this. It could be the start of all this epic shit
*dies* oops, wrong one.
But who is the seller 😂
@@sakshamjain7984 god
I just want to thank your entire team for making informative and entertaining videos. I truly support your mission.
As one man once noted, the problem to building a Dyson Sphere is two-fold:
1. If it doesn't spin, the slightest nudge will imbalance it and it will collapse.
2. Spinning it stops the problem of imbalance. However, centrifugal force for something the size of the sun will apart.
But the whole video focused on a Dyson Swarm, not a Dyson Sphere. If its a swarm, then it doesnt need to spin, it would simply need to orbit which we know how to do. So you couldn't "nudge" a Dyson Swarm because its not a single object.
it's main focus was on dyson swarms not an entire structure. he already explained what would happen if it was a dyson sphere stucture.
The bird death rate in this particular video is exceptionally high.
lol
Agree!
there is supposed to be only 1 reply here
It's all in the name of progress...
What about all of the atomic bombs going of in ever other video?
Kurzgezagt: Milk is complicated
Also Kurzgezagt: Building a Dyson Sphere is easy!
Also kursegast : terraforming Venus is easy
Better word might be simple
Yeah, but have you SEEN milk though? WHat the hell even is that stuff! I say we add a type 4 civilization and the criteria for the is to understand and harness the true power of... M I L K
Why we don’t put solar panels on mercury instead of destroying mercury to build dyson sphere
@@secretunknown2782 Because solar panels are very short-lived compared to the timespan it will take us to harnes all the energy needed for interstellar space travel. Solar panels are not as efficient as we think :) They're still heaps better than fossil fuels at not destroying our planet, but it's still not good enough for very, very big energy generation. I've got my sights set on nuclear fusion, but that needs to be properly funded and isn't really at the moment.
this is possibly my favorite video on the internet. I keep coming back to watch it again. it's like a fairytale for the future
Truly loved this episode!
More on how we might build mega structures please!
"not some of it, ALL OF IT!"
thats the most human statement in existence
The most human statement is "get the other humans"
@@gayfroggo that to
XD
@@lasttarrasque6223 *too
OMG I'm dying
How to build a Dyson swarm.
First, you're gonna need a planet you don't want...
Or a whole bunch of asteroids.
We just want earth, and probably mars
@@ExEBoss Nope. Mercury is many orders of magnitude more massive than all the astroids in the solar system. There isn't enough astroids to make a full Dyson swarm, and they're too far away regardless. Mercury really is the best solution.
@@bukanchannel8365 ya know that jupiter and saturne protect us from stray asteroids
> Be Mercury
> Sweat profusely
This really puts into perspective how much humanity could achieve if only we worked together.
Played it through already! Was big fun and still is. But my Dyson Swarm was a bit short-lived and the solar sails vanished after approx. 30 Minutes. So I used them to create a sphere.
Thank god, I have the resources of not only a planet but a whole galaxy to exploit.
But the Dark Fog seems pretty interested in my doing as well... Nasty little buggers.
Amen brother, keeping the swarm off my resource outposts gets annoying. I am currently constructing a HUGE Dyson sphere around a type O star (blue super giant) I got the frame in place but making and launching the millions and millions of mirrors are going to take forever.
I can just imagine people protesting the Dyson Structure to save mercury lmao
impossible... how does he speak the future
I legit saw a comment complaining that removing Mercury would "fuck up astrology and mess up our star signs and zodiac readings"
I came from the future just to let you know you are completely right. But they were out voted and it is very similar to this. But that really old show Star Trek is a very good representation of what we do in the 24th century.
@@Dannybythebanana ahh yes The zodiac readings definitely rely on mercury
lmao
Mercury: *Exists.*
Earth: “Hippity hoppity, you’re now my property.”
Haha nice!
Oh, HELL NO!
I love this phrase 😂😂
There’s no one else to claim it so ... I guess it’s ours
MALEK001 001
h o w
this is the first video i am watching on your channel, and absolute hats off to the animation and explanation
This is truly and amazing channel & project, thank u folks!
Mars: Hey Earth, have you seen Mercury? I didn't see him in his last orbit.
Earth: What about Mercury? Oh he's just... orbiting a bit closer...
😅
🐒
Underrated comment.
I think harvesting asteroids would be probably better, but then again, Mercury has an immense, undisputed "advantage" in terms of proximity.
@@Wasserkaktus Proximity and ease of access, mining astroids would require many different calculations each time and are much harder to her considering they even come close enough
Just tell the US that there's oil there, easy.
That was an excellent joke
Guess they need some... DEMOCRACY
Exactly.
Sounds like space needs some freedom!
Wow there's no shortage of ignorance in the comments. US has more oil than the middle east.
Educate yourself so you won't look so foolish on a public forum.
6:45 great detail that mercury got partially destroyed rip
Anyone who finds these sorts of things fascinating and likes factory-automation style games absolutely must play Dyson Sphere Program, it’s a gorgeous game and illustrates so many of these principles well
Girlfriend - He's probably thinking about other hot girls
Me- _How to build a Dyson sphere, that collects all the Sun's energy_ .
Girlfriend - He's probably thinking about how to build a dyson sphere, that collects all of the sun's energy
Me - h o t g i r l s
Why you guy kidding yourselves you know you guys don't got girlfriends lol
@bloxAloofTvgaming yeah
*OTHER* hot girls? Hahahahaha she’s hot, that’s funny.(SARCASM)
Seriously though! The fact that this is actually POSSIBLE in my lifetime has my brain wracked with thinking about how we can make it happen ever since I first saw this video
imagine if humans in the future try to build a dyson sphere, the sunspots on the Sun combine to form the words:
“You need the *Utopia DLC* in order to perform this action.”
Wait for the steam sale it's all good
Lol a Stellaris Player .............They have to unlock the megastructure perk too
Earth: Buys DLC with Jupiter’s credit card
**dies**
Game is copyright EA
Emily Hart assuming you built 1 each second, it would take you more than 31,709,791,983,764,586,496 years.
EDIT: You mentioned _10_ octillion instead of 1, so the real answer is 3.17097919837645832e+20 years.
I would totally play a game with this style and music and Kurzgesagt graphics including all these things like black hole bombs tethers stellar engines and Venus and Mars terrraforming. The music designer also needs a raise it’s god tier
There’s another comment mentioning a game called “Dyson Sphere Program”. It’s about building a Dyson sphere (shockingly). I don’t know if there’s other stuff like tethers or black hole bombs or anything about it really, but I thought to mention it anyway.
This is so entertaining that I’ve probably watched this over 50 times over 3yrs
Sounds easy
I'll help out this weekend
bro i dont think Dyson is hiring rn
skinna I got my resume ready just in case
@@skinna9126 Damn, imagine if Dyson actually helped create a Dyson sphere. I mean, they're making a car, and no one expected that.
ahh gees...this weekend?? i got this.....thing.....i cant make it
I’m in! My father is hitting up Venus tho, I’ll see if I can stop by Mercury to set my bag down
Mercury: exists
Earth: I diagnose you with dead
Earths phrase was pretty funny
Mercury: exists.
Earth: only you can prevent, RAPE
4:00 hexagon is the bestagon
I love this channel sooooo much I'm a die hard fan I really enjoy the style and I'm building a space civilization in lego while watching
The animation on this video was absolutely amazing.
When is it not?
It's always like that are you new to the channel?
@@hamza-chaudhry I think he's talking about this specific video. I've been watching for 2 years and as far as I remember the animations on this one were the best of all the videos I've seen
Vuk Vidanovic well if you've been watching since the beginning you'd know how much they have to spend on animation and because they have a bigger budget now, the animation is also better. It seems like you have not been watching since the beginning.
Mercury: exists
Elon Musk: *It's free real estate*
"Sun ultimate energy "
Elon Musk: i want all this stuff
*"Free"*
♥️♥️♥️
Xd
@@charevandenheever4460 whoosh
Thanks for the tutorial! I will now start building! 👍
thanks for the tut. it worked for me! 10/10 explanation! :D
People: Mercury will be destroyed if we build a Dyson sphere.
Scientists: a small price for salvation
Did you build a Dyson Sphere?
*Yes.*
What did it cost?
*Mercury.*
MechanicPluto24 lol
I mean how many of us would actually be bothered if the planet was completely mined to the core to the point where it's unrecognizable? I mean obviously if it had life it would be a different story, but if the planet itself is dead then it truly is a small price to pay.
@@howdydoody6057 It's just sitting there, screwing up Newtonian physics.... I as a classical Newtonian definitely think we should get rid of Mercury.
@@thamasteroneill Never heard of that but it adds another reason to get rid of it! More then worth it for unlimited energy.
Congratulations!
You reached "Atomic Age"
Energy +500
*Likelihood of Annihilation +35%*
Oof.
Thats gold, heres a like. Least I can do
Wow. Don't tell me this entire city is gonna blow.
I wonder what happens at 100% likelihood of annihilation
@@kennethmclean2408 I don't actually know, maybe total nuclear annihalition? Black hole experiment gone wrong. Extinction?
@@kennethmclean2408 To expand the likelyhood of annihilation we would be expanding our technology and expanding the populations to different planets, galaxies, etc. making 100% likelyhood near impossible, but if something happened at a large enough scale it could be plausible.
Thanks for the guide, I was having trouble but youreally helped me bijld my dysonsphere.
Back in my day, we had a sun: a big glowing ball flying above the earth
Now I have a huge desire to play a space themed strategy/resource management game.
EDIT: 3 Years later and this comment is still getting replies haha. I've played DSP and it's great.
Stellaris 😎
@@nikolaia.9573 I always wanted to try Stellaris but that game looks way too complicated. So many DLCs are out by now I'm scared I'd be completely lost at this point if I started now. Every time I started a 'gameplay' on TH-cam to see what's it about I was overwhelmed by the amount of things the game offers.
@@uros.u.novakovic Try it, its amazing. Factorio is also good.
please try factorio dude youll love it ;) @@uros.u.novakovic
Star trek online XD
I love how the video is portrayed as some kind of town creator game. XD
Awfully similar to spore
Or your generic clicker tycoon
There were some references to starcaft II too!
that's the point but ok
Go check out Factorio. See you in a few months. :D
Aaaah! thanks mate. All i needed was this how to guide. I will get on to start building my dyson sphere...
Thank you for making this video I bet if you were watching in the future you would be happy if we made such a thing and were able to make stuff like black hole bombs and stellar engines! Your videos are very interesting and must take a lot of time to make them! So thanks for helping us learn!
Humans: hardly made any progress on reaching mars
Him: disassemble mercury
Reached 69 likes
He says the defendants of humanity
The point of the video is that disassembling Mercury would make reaching Mars that much easier
@@lol-sp4rv LMAOOOOO I JUST CHOKED ON MY FOOD
@@XTR_NEELAN now the other funni number
*YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS*
7:06 xD
SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS
YOU MUST BUILD THAT... IN A POWER SPHERE.
What’s the reference?
@@antoniomccoy6065 StarCraft
My D&D campaign bouta go crazy!
Oh no
0:16 I laughed so hard when I saw the +35% Likelihood of Annihilation
Hehe! Yeah me too. Honestly, it should've been higher.
_Sponsored by Dyson_
When you had a good comment idea but then someone took it...
One day, it will
Why are you following me
The Tyson Sphere! Sponsored by Mike Tyson. Get inside and have the shit beaten out of you! If you order in the next 5 minutes you get 2 for the price of one!
I wanted to use that joke xd
Saw u on Pyrocynical's channel
Humans: Exist
Poor Mercury: Why do I hear boss music
I think you mean "Metal-rich Mercury" B)
Looks like they need some... freedom :)
We will miss you mercury
@@franky8340 the planet or the element
It's just Mercury, no one's gonna realize it's gone if they don't get told
Thanks a lot,I was gonna build one.this will surely help
Thanks for the step by step!!!
I love how they presented it like a civilization strategy game. I would love it if they made one, with most of their scientific teachings as occurences in the game, like after getting enough resources you could build a dyson swarm, etc. Kinda like Spore.
Check out Dyson Sphere Program. It's pretty much this video as an automation game.
not the same but in stellaris you can build a dyson sphere and do much more, its a fun game
@@ardasoydan9394 matter decompressor + foundry ecum = fleets for days
It could be a game based on how fast we can destroy the given universe(s) starting as life forms comparable to bacterias
Stellaris
Why is this channel dead set on making me feel shit for being born too early?
If you were born 100 years ago and kurzgesagt was broadcasting to you about the 21st century over the radio you'd feel the same. The exciting part is building the future, not living it
oh shit, we got another one.
Oh sshoooot
@@nathanvanderriet209 That's soooo true. As long as humanity exists, there will always be envy of the future.
just Freeze yourself, even if we cant bring you back right now, someday humanity or ist decendats will be able to bring you back.
Ahhh to be able to live long enough to see something like this accomplished.... what a dream.
Thanks for the guide! I'll try this right now!
Kurzgesagt: This is how to build a Dyson Sphere
Scientists: Alright we're ready.
Kurzgesagt: You need to dissasemble an entire planet.
Scientists: *u wot*
You got it backwards.
Kurzgesagt: How do we build a Dyson sphere?
Scientists: You need to disassemble an entire planet.
Kurzgesagt: Cool!
Or you could just say reverse uno to make it a meme
Nina a s
**slowly enchants everything with efficiency 32k**
The uae: *note that down! Note that down!*
Mercury : Am i a joke to you?
People : Yup!
Of course not
@SatanicBeige [SB] lol
Your sacrifice will be remembered and your legend will be told for eons. Nao die.
Humanity: Nope, a serious stepping stone.
oh my god, thank you soo much, I finally finished my dyson sphere, your a life saver!
Thanks. I will try to build one tomorrow
*Don't know about y'all but I really need a game made by kurzgesagt with that type of stunning animation*
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I too
Y'all
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I think they have a skill share course. Some game designers should learn from that and create one
It’s almost as is Mercury was placed there on purpose, it’s so perfect…
Coincidence? I think not.
Yeah great fought so we can become a 1.9 civilization in the next few hundred years
What do I mean by a type civilization well on the kardashev scale you can go from 1 to 4 type 1 civilization's control their whole planet type II civilization control there star and their whole planetary system type 3 civilization control their whole galaxy and all of its black holes except the super massive black hole at the center Type 4 civilization can control multiple galaxies some scientists think there are type 5 civilization's that control galaxy clusters or superclusters or their whole Cosmic backyard ultimately there might be a type Omega civilization that controls the whole universe and possibly this type of civilization might be the creators of this universe for reasons beyond our own comprehension maybe they were bored this experiment has been telling us interesting things it's what we think of civilizations is sort of correct there Arno civilizations of type 3 and Beyond near the Milky Way and this is something pretty interesting knowledge that you can chew on if you read this whole thing so you got a little bit smarter from reading this reply
@@AlexanderPR2 okay but why don't you look at my replies
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Love how you guys used the nebulan b, frigate as a lil spaceship
Yet again another helpful tutorial by kurzgezagt very cool 👍
I would spend hundreds if not thousands of hours on a game made by Kurzgesagt
I know right just the animation game riiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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Dyson sphere program PC
Space company Android
ha ha yes more hours of life wasted by scientific information and my parents will allow it because it is learning
Can someone make this a thing?
Kid in the future: what happened to mercury
His grandma: *gone, reduced to atoms*
Kurzgesagt is Thanos and The Dyson Sphere is the Gauntlet.
gone, reduced to mirrors
We repurposed Mercury child. You see that swarm of mirrors over there? That's mercury now!
Costel copycat
wait i meant copycostel
I’m impressed with the style of the video making it look like a real game
Love how that when it says welcome to the atomic age and then followed by likelyhood for destruction
I wish I could live long enough to see humans build a dyson sphere
Maybe you will?
That doesn't seem like a good idea
Immortality I mean it isn't a good idea
So did a lot of the creatures building the dyson sphere in the vid.... *splat*
Too late to explore the earth; too early to explore space; just in time to fix all of the problems
i can imagine building the dyson sphere would be much easier than resolving conflicts we have right now.
What technological limitations can you think of that prevents us from creating some type of partial Dyson swarm from mining with robots mercury and launching satellites/collectors to beam down energy and accelerate the process?
@@sw1tch327 The abysmal efficiency, recyclability, and maintenance of solar panels and the difficulties we would also have with capacity when it comes to storing that power.
On the one side. We might not need huge capacity if we can solve the problems with Solar energy. Solar Panels lose efficiency as they heat up and their efficiency is rather shit to begin with. But if we could develop solar technology that would allow us to control how much energy we take-in, whenever we need it. Then we wouldn't need to have an incredibly advanced energy infrastructure.
That said. Without that advancement. We need a good way to direct as much solar energy into the energy grid for storage for when it's needed. Batteries are essentially already at their best efficiency that we can actually get them. There's pretty much a chemical limit. So we can't just make a super-grid of batteries. They're expensive, volatile, inefficient for our purpose etc.
Super capacitors have the problem of having even less efficiency than batteries but they can output charge much faster. Not really fit for purpose.
Perhaps we'd find ways to use any excess energy that we harvest when it's not needed and pump it into a mechanical system that would allow us to convert later on.
I'm spitballing here but yeah. There's a boatload of issues with just receiving the energy. Let alone setting up the infrastructure that builds the thing.
@@Unethical.Dodgson Well if you watched the video it covered that when it said to use mirrors. With that much power we can use kugleblitz batteries (maybe). And we can just not store whatever energy we don't need and use what we can and then we have a very high demand for energy storage
Honestly, most people would rather focus on space travel than current problems because it's easier and more interesting. There's a reason there are hundreds of sci-fi shows but none about feeding the homeless.
@@sw1tch327 sorry to necro here, but my concert is he said mirrors to direct to a place. If that place is on earth then we are going to fry the earth before the end. Even if we dont, if the mirrors have a glitch that much energy focused in one place could demolish any city (magnifying glass and ant). So we focus on an object in orbit, how do we get that energy here? We don't have a way to efficiently transmit energy across space. Right now the only way they can think of is lasers, and again with that much energy a bad actor could demolish a city. There is also a massive amount of energy lost to the atmosphere and then again with solar. The mirrors have to be able to direct in unison to a point. How are we going to do that? Not to mention it has to get into orbit, but the mirrors will act as solar sails. If we use the force of those to keep it in orbit then we run into the issue of sun spots. Then how do we rotate the mirrors to remain focused on earth? Can't be gas we would run out on the mirrors before long. Maybe some gyroscope, but we would have to have billions of satellites working in unison
thanks for the tutorial ill build it straight away.
I'd like to see a civilization type game with kurzgegasts graphics with all these gameplay elements they talked about like Dyson spheres Terra forming and things like that
Mercury: *Exists*
Kurzgesagt: A small price to pay for unlimited power.
You've lost the oportunity to say "UnLiMiTeD pOwEr!!!!!!!!!!"
the concept starts very simply first have the resorces of billians of earths negating the point of building this joke of an idea in the first place
@@shardinhand1243 You don't need "billions of earths" worth of resources, it i stated as much. And why would such a project be a joke? It is more grounded in our understanding of physics and thecnology than things like Alcubierre warp and wormholes.
@@paulohenriqueferreiradealm1893 also aside from needing more metal than we could get from every planet in the solar system, even if we made it, it would just be destroied by its own gravity, the suns gravity, and all the heat from it, but ignoring all that, the energy from it would only be practical to use for our solar system... which we would have already left for behind just to get the resorces to build this silly thing.
@@shardinhand1243 Well both the video and every other article that talks about a Dyson Sphere says that, at most, you would need just Mercury do do it, and not even all of it. After all, the idea is that the parts composing the sphere are as thin as you can get away with it, despite how wide than can get. We are not even talking about centimiter here, but rather millimiters, or thiner if possible. Such structure is not achivable as of now, but nothing on engeneering or physics prohibits it to be, given enough fine tunnig of the construction tecniches already available. It is still worth mentioning that this fine tuning, as well, is grounded on the realms of possibility.
Aside from that, the most known name is "Dyson Sphere" but, as the video points out, it would be far more accurate to call it a Dyson Swarm: millions of small, relativly speaking, pannels that collect all the energy of the sun and redirect it for use by the civilization, like a really dense fog covering the sun itself.
On the point of going to other star systems, there are almost no reliable way of making it there and back in reasonable times (reasonable in a intersstellar scale, which would still be around three to four centuries, go and come back) without the usage of solar energy. As far as we can tell, accelerating to relativistic speeds without the energy output of a star backing you, is simply too energy costly to be tried.
That is, unless we figure some new physics which allow us FTL travel, which we are not even close to.
Mars: You wanted power... what did it cost?
Earth: **on the verge of tears of pain and duty** Mercury...
@黃詩峰expensive and takes too long
@黃詩峰 Its more efficient to EAT Mercury so we can make the swarm
Yeah but if we had infinite power it’s pretty reasonable we could just boom snap and Mercury would back in orbit
@@greglynas52 if we could synthesis energy/plasma into matter, then yes.
"Im sorry little one.."
Earth, sending an entire mining colony to Mercury
This was the first ever video I've seen from this channel and I love it, I also want to help humanity expand to the stars, since my people come from the stars I want to help humanity get to the stars
Huh, LOL