@Ping_chan
Archailect child: uses nanobots to reconstruct an exact copy of the stains using spare carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen
Dad: it’s just not the same
Archailect child: but it’s copy down to the atomic lev-
Dad: it’s not the same!
@Prometheus labs CEO
Then dad comes in looking for his favorite coffee mug “who cleaned the coffee stains outta my mug! There was 20 years of different memories in all of that coffee!!”
@Ping_chan
“Ugh, whatever, Mom! Get off my back! You just don’t understand me! This isn’t a phase, my new godly Pony Matrix powers are how I live my life now!”
@Joseph Raszagal
“if you actually paid attention while using telekinesis to do the dishes, you would have noticed all of the spots you missed! You expect us to eat off of that?!”
@Ping_chan
And then you find a way to take I’ve the computer the simulation runs and expands your mind to take up the entirety of it “look ma I’ve become a god!”
@Joseph Raszagal
Imagine if you learned the world around you is a computer simulation and you are in fact a self aware AI and some person outside of the simulation found a way to enter your world… Just before you found out the cheat codes to screw around with the simulated world “look mah I found out how to turn on no clipping mode!” “stop walking through the walls dammit! I just cleaned them!”
@Prometheus labs CEO
Aliens build a computer powerful enough to run a simulation that we live inside of, our scientists do the same to build a simulated universe for ponies to live in.
@Ping_chan
Powering massive computers such as a matryoshka brain to run godlike ASIs on, how else to advance further than by making a mind that has the mental capacity of billions of ordinary people
@Ping_chan
Easier, yes, but still wildly infeasible unless the ones building the structure are technologically advanced to the point of absurdity. Just imagine trying to hit the sweet spots within the star’s immediate gravitational pull to sustain the structure equally from all sides and prevent pieces from being pulled down into the star’s surface during construction.
Materials capable of withstanding intense heat would be required too, ones that could survive for hundreds of years without being replaced (constant maintenance wouldn’t necessarily nullify the potential usefulness of a Dyson Sphere power plant, but it would definitely make the project a supermassive bitch for the poor souls tasked to work on it).
Scientists be like: “This could be done.”
Engineers, on the other hand: “THIS SHIT IS BANANAS!”
@Joseph Raszagal
Heh I’m reading up on Wikipedia articles regarding White Dwarfs, while they can be about ten times more massive than our sun, they are about the size of our earth, sounds MUCH easier to build a Dyson Sphere around a white dwarf than a full sized angry and burning hot star…
@ManualReplica
Ponies can sing winter wrap up songs all year long!
Best argument I’ve heard for the Sun Wall so far xD .
As for what aliens would do with that kind of energy… uh… That’s a hard one to answer. If a civilization existed that was large enough to require 100% of a star’s output, I can’t even begin to imagine how massive it’d have to be. I might be wrong here, mostly ‘cause it’s been a while and I can’t remember for sure, but I don’t even think Star Trek boasted a civilization advanced enough to enclose an entire star for the purposes of tapping into its power.
@ManualReplica
Ponies can sing winter wrap up songs all year long!
@Prometheus labs CEO
I understood most of what you said. XD
Still tho, a lot of people discussing if any aliens actually work on building such a structure out there, if the sphere actually reaches a point where it could collect 100% of the stars energy output, what would they use all of that energy for?
@Ping_chan
There’s a few ways to resist its gravity, for one thing the energy pressure from the star pushing at the sphere, you have both massive amounts of light and solar plasma. Another is using exotic matter to enhance its structure integrity, such as monopoles, imagine how strong those things would be if you make them into something. And the finally one is centrifugal force, spin the sphere along multiple axes
@Prometheus labs CEO
Whenever I hear people discuss the possibility of really high tech aliens building a Dyson sphere, like the hypothetical situation involving Tabbys Star, I always have to wonder “How close do the solar collectors have to be to the star? How do they resist the stars gravity? If they build the collectors further away from the star to avoid its gravity, wouldn’t that mean they have to build a larger ring to get all the way around it? Than if they were closer to it? Doesn’t the star have its own solar wind pushing things away from it?”
Darn those crafty aliens and their highly advanced technology that might as well be magic when compared to our lesser existence!
@HDPlayer
Most highly advanced technology god like aliens would probably build enough very efficient solar collectors around their star to get enough energy to power whatever the hell they need that much power for…
Which in the end probably wouldn’t block all of the sun light out…
Now Nolegs and her bat pony friends simply want to build “awall” around Equestria’s with the only end goal to block out ALL sun light. Sort of Nightmare Moon’s thing, but with out any evil intent and completely ignorant over what that would do for their planets climate and ecosystem….
I wonder how much fan stuff has been done with popular bat pony oc’s and Nightmare Moon?
