LeopardessGirl
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Post by LeopardessGirl on Aug 13, 2008 16:25:29 GMT -6
This Is A Logical Ideah, As It Can Be Done With The Right Equipment Avaliable*Wink*
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Post by andrewlee on Aug 13, 2008 17:22:43 GMT -6
The question is even with the right equipment is how to safely and effectively do it. The hydrogen would have to be some how magnetically compressed to get it hot and enough pressure to start fusion inside the center of the asteroid. It would take a lot of energy to start this reaction ,but after it is started would be well worth it.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Aug 14, 2008 8:13:11 GMT -6
The problem is controlling, containing, and storing the energy form a supernova. It would be extremely dangerous If you think about it, the only way we harness energy is by controlling its release. An internal combustion engine runs by tiny, controlled explosions within its piston chambers. As we learned in basic Astronomy back at the Academy, a star is in a constant state of balance between the tendency of its energy to make it expand and the tendency of its gravimetric field to make it contract. When that balance goes off-kilter, it either collapses or novas. It don't see how you could control the release of energy in a nova. But then I'm not an Engineer.
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Post by THE CAKE IS A LIE! on Aug 14, 2008 9:07:03 GMT -6
Sweet! Now to give my Empire a boost in production! ;D
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Post by andrewlee on Aug 14, 2008 18:36:18 GMT -6
What I was suggesting in my last post about making a small artificial star inside a large asteroid is kind of like a dyson sphere but on a much smaller scale. I might just give Zacks empire the power it needs.
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LeopardessGirl
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Post by LeopardessGirl on Aug 15, 2008 14:36:17 GMT -6
**Ill Help with It** Yes This Is True Andrew.
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Post by kynan101 on Jan 7, 2010 8:12:59 GMT -6
i doubt that it will ever work because we cant even make artificial gravity so every time we jump the whose dyson sphere will go towards the stars corona and you will float off into the star but then even if you did solve those problems the radiation from the star will kill the people there so it is very unlikely that will ever work
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jan 7, 2010 9:46:57 GMT -6
i doubt that it will ever work because we cant even make artificial gravity... We can't? What are all those grav plates built into the decks for then? But I think Dyson's original idea was to set the sphere rotating, so centrifugal force would create artificial gravity. It would still be a HUGE engineering problem mind you.
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Post by kynan101 on Jan 7, 2010 11:56:25 GMT -6
so what about the radiation problem then and the meteors that would knock it towards the sun
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Post by andrewlee on Jan 7, 2010 14:02:56 GMT -6
so what about the radiation problem then and the meteors that would knock it towards the sun The radiation from the star becoming unstable is why the dyson sphere was abandoned. The dyson sphere is so large that it would take a large planet running into it to knock it into an unstable orbit, that is assuming that it doesn't have some positional stabilizers.
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Post by Atoz 77 on Jan 11, 2010 9:23:30 GMT -6
Certainly it must have some kind of stabilizing system, because even the tiniest gravitational bump (say from a passing comet) would eventually send it into the sun. There's a fascinating novel by Larry Niven called "Ringworld" about a slightly less ambitious project. In the sequel, "The Ringworld Engineers", the Ringworld has infact become unstable because some of the stabilizing engines have broken down.
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