>"they have dyson sphere!" >"they must totally

>>388327568
All we know is that they have a Dyson sphere, we don't know if they have one or ten trillion of them.

>>388327626

>>388327568
did you even half life? the combine are from another dimension. you even see at the end of 2.

>>388327568
Let's see:
>amount of Combine's Dyson Spheres
at least 1
>amount of Earth's Dyson Spheres
0

???

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>>388327780
>"they from other dimension!"
>"they must totally control entire universe and every dimensiosn wowow!!!!!"

>>388327862
nobody has ever said they control the entire universe and other dimensions, stop pretending to be smart.

>>388327927
>nobody has ever said they control the entire universe and other dimensions
>>388322307

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>>388327852
>"they stronger than earth!"
>"they must totally control entire universe and every dimensiosn wowow!!!!!"

>>388327984
>one person gets you this upset
back to tumblr for you friendo.

they found it

>>388327626
I would think simple math would say they have very few.

It should still be possible to hide from them with Sci-Fi bullshit.

>>388328350
What? In a different dimension? Just let them have Earth while a a handful of people run and hide?

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>>388328458
Steal Combine technology to transport the entire solar system into another dimension.
There, I solved your problem.
Hire me, Valve.

>>388328293
>>388327626
Having one dyson sphere makes it so much easier to build many more, as you suddenly have all the energy and fuel you could ever want. Any civilization that has one dyson sphere and wants more could build basically as many more as they want far quicker and easier than building the first.

>>388328523
the combine probably can't do that. They have shitty portal tech compared to the rest of their abilities.

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Are dyson spheres the newest /v/ meme? I wouldn't mind really. We're far behind /tv/ in the meme market.

>>388328540
This. Having such a source of energy essentially amounts to opening the gateway to near infinite power.

>>388328607
It's only a meme to people who haven't heard about dyson spheres before.

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post yfw your enemy has one of these

>>388328540
If you have all the energy and fuel you could ever want, why do you want more dyson spheres?

>>388328607
this t b h

s m h

t b h

f a m

we are embarassingly behind /tv/

>>388327626
Or they most likely stole it and killed the people who built it, just like how they only kept the humans around until they got their own portal

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How the fuck can the Rebels beat the Empire?

The Empire has a Dyson Sphere that shoots lasers!

>>388328902
>How
Plot armor.

wtf is this thread

how is having a Dyson Sphere NOT a huge fucking deal

>>388328902
Empire are white supremacists and therefore on the wrong side of history.

>>388328798
because if you have a multi dimensional civilization, you'll get to the point where you want more, so you can expand further. There's always a need to have more energy, and to have it faster, as a star only puts out energy at a certain rate.

>>388328607
/tv/ has the most forced memes on the site. I'd rather have no memes than /tv/-tier garbage.

>>388328798
Greed?

They came to Earth to steal our resources, with all the power of the dyson sphere why would they need ours?

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>"they uh tiah foah raice!"
>"tiah foah!!!!"

>>388329043
>people say this
>several crew members on starkiller base were black
>this is pointed out
>comments get sheepishly walked back

>>388328523
>If Combine had that capability wouldn't it have been easier to teleport the Earth to their home world

>>388327862
>>388328063
What did they mean by this?

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I have clearly missed something because I have absolutely no idea what's going on in this thread.

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>>388328902
Space magic > dyson spheres

>>388329081
What?

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>>388328798
Because transporting that energy can be a bitch.

>>388327568
are you saying we have confirmed the existence of a dyson sphere in our observable universe or what is going on here?

>>388328902
>death star
>dyson sphere
'no'

>>388329685
The Starkiller is a Dyson Sphere, though.

>>388328063
>Control the only know intelligent species in out universe
>They control our universe
wowowowow

>>388330383
>The Starkiller is a Dyson Sphere
'no'

>>388330383
Wasn't that only built inside a planet and not around a sun? Does it use the planet's core as a power source as a kind of Dyson Sphere-lite?

>>388330383
The starkiller is a planet. It's not a Dyson sphere.

>>388330383
>The Starkiller is a Dyson Sphere, though.
at least now i know you have no idea what you're talking about

>>388328798
Now you can build them across a trillion dimensions

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>>388329685
>>388330383
>>388330608
>Inb4 the final boss of SW:E9 is a dyson sphere death star the first order built using the resources they had hidden inside their ass
>inb4 the final boss of SW:E12 is a binary dyson sphere death star the [insert generic blatantly evil empire that is meant to resemble the nazis] built using the resources they had hidden in their asses after they lost their big weapon of planetary conquest +17 during E10
>inb4 the final boss of SW:E15 is a gaben death star valve built with the money they earned after releasing Half Life 3

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>>388330383
Here, I made this for you.
No it's not to scale.

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>>388328902
>>388330383

Do you even know what a Dyson Sphere is you fucking retard?

>>388331263
There's no reason to think the dyson sphere would contain the earth.

>>388331217
>[insert generic blatantly evil empire that is meant to resemble the nazis]

Rhird Teich.

>>388331263
>>388331434

It's actually not a good theory at all.

If this picture was accurate, you wouldn't be able to see stars in the sky.

If we're still talking about HL2, you wouldn't be able to see stars in the sky, but some HL2 skyboxes clearly have stars.

>>388331434
Not that anon but you're right. All a Dyson Sphere has to contain is a star.

But it CAN contain planets too if it's as big as a solar system.

>>388331605
I don't think he implied that a Dyson Sphere was encircling OUR solar system but the home world of the Combine.

It's an example.

>>388331605
The dyson sphere isn't in our solar system.

>>388329194
>Combine snatching planets from their star systems and planting them within a designated sector along with other planets with their enslaved races
Neat.

>>388331729
>But it CAN contain planets too if it's as big as a solar system.
Would take way way more material to make for no gain.

>>388328792
underrated post

>>388331729
>>388331732

>pic literally has the word "earth" in it

fuck off

Dyson Swarms > Dyson Spheres

>>388329414
He's talking about the Kardashev scale. Basically how the Combine are at least 3 tiers higher than us as we're not even a tier 1 race yet.

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>>388331928
It's an example retard. You clearly have a pea brain and don't understand the concept so it was necessary to show you what a dyson sphere is.

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This is pretty neat too.
>it's inhabitants are almost literally cavemen
I haven't watched the series, but I can't really fathom how they built this shit.

>Dyson Sphere

Is this /v/'s favorite new word of the week?

>>388331928
Fucking dumbass, it's an example of one. The story heavily implies he's been teleported to a Combine hub where there IS a dyson sphere. if the combine had built up shit around earth there would be no reason for the conflict in the games, which clearly illustrate a scrappy Combine using primarily transhumans to keep their foothold.

>>388332221
a bunch of children discovered the concept of a dyson sphere for the first time due to the HL2E3 ''plot''

>>388332221
It's a concept that's been around forever. There's a Star Trek episode about it.

It's being brought up due to the news about Half Life 3. Get your head out of your ass.

>>388332195

>example that makes literally no sense

thats not how examples work

you called the planet "PLANET", not fucking "earth" because it completely, utterly changes the definition of the example, unless you're a retard who thinks the word "earth" is just a generic name for the word planet.

>>388332420
That's because when dyson shells are considered theoretically, the basic example is one with a radius of 1 AU. Same with ringworlds. That's pretty traditional. There's even a book about that. You're just compensating because you've never read about this shit before in your life

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>>388332420
I just realized you're doing all of this on purpose.

>>388328798
to make a matrioshka brain

>>388332420
Not them but Earth was used for size/scale reference, baitposter. If you just put "planet" then that doesn't get the size across because planets vary wildly in size

>Have a dyson sphere
>Still have difficulty invading Earth

>>388332547

What the FUCK are you talking about?

I commented on the person's theory that the earth was wrapped inside a dyson sphere and how it was wrong, period.

His picture does not imply anything else, if that's not the example he wanted to make it's on him.

>>388332696
>plot of entire series turns around the discovery and potential scalability of teleportation to Earth/Earth's dimension

duhhhh buhhhh fuhhhhh

>>388327568
This. Kids jumped headfirst into most retarded wank I have ever seen.

>>388327626
It's retarded to assume they have more than one when only one is ever shown or mentioned.

Would the engery required to make a dyson sphere even make it worth it?

Does the solar system even have enough matter to construct one? Wouldn't it need almost entirely rare metals?

>>388329074
they came to earth to steal transdimmensional portal tech. how do you fucking retards not know that by now.

>>388332370
>a bunch of children discovered the concept of a dyson sphere for the first time due to the HL2E3 ''plot''

This. Kids who have never heard of it have their minds blown by something that's been around for decades in numerous universes.

Not that related, but I think the idea is interesting of the transition from one Dyson sphere to multiple Dyson spheres. What media touches on that expansions? It gets assumed that you either have a bunch or none, so I'd like to explore the power struggles or logistics of that situation if anyone has some reading.

>>388332612

That is such a huge stretch to save that bullshit pic.

The scale of the planet is not relevant to the point at hand, and if the name of the planet will completely change the interpretation of your pic, you should find another way to convey it.

Just own up to your shitty pic and shitty idea.

>>388332914
The materials involved are always theoretical but it's often noted that there is certainly enough material that, if we could transmutate or could use every atom freely, it would be possible within our solar system.

>>388332768
You're the dumbass who thought starkiller was a dyson sphere homeboy, read a book

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>>388327626
>"they have one"
>"they must also have trillions!"

>>388333139

>You're the dumbass who thought starkiller was a dyson sphere homeboy, read a book

nigger my first post is here:

>>388331605

I just commented on the retardation of the picture and a bunch of idiots got triggered.

>>388333120
It was supposed to show that in the original concept the sphere would be as large as Earth's orbit around the sun, nothing else.

>>388329320

HL3 came out.

>>388332980
Because that's how they found us and how they invaded us after we accidentally went to Xen? And did you miss the part about our oceans and the beta stuff like the Air Exchanger?

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How useful would the Earth's meager resources be to a civilization capable of building something as immense as Dyson sphere? If they stole all of our water, they'd be able to build an ocean that covers one one-thousandth of a percent of their home planet.

>>388333374


>hl2 episode 3 thread talking about combine dyson spheres

>hl1 and hl2 take place on earth

Yeah, nah.

>>388327568
>>388327626
The entire point is that even having one is more than humanity could accomplish even if given countless centuries.

>>388333320
It's inherent when discussing dyson spheres that nothing is on the inside because it would reduce energy absorption on the surface. Everyone here knows that except you, apparently

>>388333139
if we were that advanced couldn't we just convert matter into energy and save ourselves millenia of troubles?

I mean you're talking about straight up alchemy. If we can do fucking alchemy then why bother with a fucking pain in the ass sphere?

>>388328798
It's not"all you could ever want".
Imagine having a 32 gig SD card to stick DS ROMs into it. Sure, it's way more space than you'd ever need but... What if you want to download the full ROMset?

>>388333539
I mean the original concept that the Dyson guy invented 60 years ago, m8.

>>388333502
Why do you think the Combine ever cared about Earth's natural resources? There's literally zero reason to believe that is the case.

>>388333320

What the fuck are you fucking talking about you fucking idiot? Nobody is saying Earth is inside a Dyson Sphere. Nobody ever said that. People are trying to explain to your retarded ass what the fuck a Dyson Sphere IS and why fucking Death Star or Starkiller are not examples of one. A Dyson Sphere is a sphere that CONTAINS A SOLAR SYSTEM INSIDE IT.

>>388327568
This is why valve didn't use Laidlaws writing.
Probably also why Laidlaw got pissed and released his version which is fan fic.

>>388332914
There is easily enough material in Mercury, if we mined the whole thing down to nothing. There's also more than enough material in the Sun.

How would you even get close enough to build without having your shit getting burned up?

>>388333584

I'm not arguing what is or isn't a dyson sphere, I just called the pic retarded because it is in half-life's context.

Get fucked.

>>388333641
It's a theoretical object, jesus christ, it's something to write books about. It is presented theoretically as the absolute upper limit of what energy would be available to a highly advanced civilization. Nothing is bigger or more efficient. The only utility in mentioning it in the story is just to totally dwarf Earth's hopes of remaining free or ever becoming dominant, because the only thing separating Earth from total enslavement is space and time. If it sound s outlandish, that's the fucking point. Gordon's staring into the abyss, that's why he's given up

>>388333746
>CONTAINS A SOLAR SYSTEM INSIDE IT
Not exactly. It contains a single star inside, which the sphere harnesses energy from.

>>388333734
Why did they steal our water, then?

>>388333851
Boo hoo, boo hoo hoo

>>388333584

Pure nonsense. Something as small as a planet would reduce it by an amount that's too small to even measure. It wouldn't be even noticeable. Do you have any idea how tiny planets are compared to the surface area of a DS? It's like a grain of sand in a massive solar panel farm, it's not going to hinder shit.

Only reason to not have shit inside the sphere is because it allows you to make the sphere smaller, saving building costs.

>>388333746

>Nobody is saying Earth is inside a Dyson Sphere. Nobody ever said that.

Factually incorrect.

>>388333851
>I'm just arguing because I interpreted the example wrong and can't accept that it was entirely my fault

Fixed.

>>388333978

Ah, the shitpost of defeat, a 4chan classic.

>>388333851
>>388333982
That picture has nothing to do with half-life. The guy made it to illustrate how large a dyson sphere is to the guy who called starkiller a dyson sphere. Earth was put in as a size reference.

>>388333880
>steal our water
What exactly is your evidence for this? There are a lot of explanations for dried lakes and rivers, such as diverting rivers to build infrastructure, cataclysmic seismic activity during war, etc.

>>388327568
Making the thread a sticky was a mistake.

>>388329623
You think civilization would still exist as we know it and wouldn't have mass chimpouts if they did?

>>388334078
"get fucked" sounds pretty defeated to me

>>388333982

Point to a post in this thread that said that that wasn't just you sperging out or interpreting size comparisons as maps.

>>388334051

A bad example doesn't get interpreted badly, it's a bad example.

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>>388331928
>>388332768
>>388333320
here you go you giant fucking baby

>wow they have a dyson sphere, a super complex piece of engineering we thought only possible in theory
>they are obviously superior to us there is no use in fighting them
>HURRRRRRRRRR JUST CUZ THEY SUPERIOR TO US DOESN'T MEAN THERE SUPERIEOR TO EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE DURRRRRRRRRRRR
>who cares nerd? the human race is literally like ants to something that wants to subjugate and actively destroy us and you're arguing that aliens who may or may not exist could potentially be more powerful than the combine?
>HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUR
>stop
>DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

>>388334238
This thread is people who already knew what a dyson sphere is and people who didn't. Take the L. You've gotten so much more mad than you ever would if you had just learned with an open mind

>>388334275
>Sphere
>It's actually just a circle

>>388334134

>That picture has nothing to do with half-life.

Do you know what thread you are in?

>>388334227

>the picture doesn't count!!!! lalala

It does, your squealing won't change that fact.

>>388334345
That would be a niven ring. Pretend it's a fuckin sphere baby

>>388334316
>making one of those shitty strawman comics as a post

>>388334321

I ain't even mad, I just point out a bad pic, a bad example in a thread talking about the combine dyson spheres and people got absolutely triggered.

>>388334275

Thanks bro!

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>>388334275
ftfy

>>388334316
eat shit, lib. :)

>>388327780
HOLY SHIT, you guys are fucking idiots. THE COMBINE CAN'T GO TO OTHER DIMENSIONS (i.e. Xen). They can only teleport from one universe to another. They need Eli and Mossman to master their local teleportation technology, which barely works in HL2. why is /v/ so retarded?!

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>>388334345

>>388330383
>>388328902
These are the people you share this board with.

>>388328523
Why didn't the humans just teleport nukes into the guts of anything that looked at them crossways?
Just port a nuke into the Dyson sphere control center.

>>388334345
>He doesn't have a 3D display

Get out of here plebe.

>>388334525
Are you trolling or retarded? Universes and dimensions are the same thing in HL.

>>388334375

The only retard here is you. You interpreted the picture wrong. It's entirely on you. You fucking dumb autistic piece of shit.

>>388334410
>Misleading people into believing your ringworld example was actually a dyson sphere

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>>388334529

>>388333439
they us because we opened ghe connection

>>388334731
ah I didn't know it was a troll thread. carry on.

>>388334525
It's the other way around. The Combine can travel between dimensions (they conquered Xen), but can't travel efficiently within a dimension, which is why they use relatively primitive vehicles.

>>388333120
wow you're autistic. The original premise of a Dyson sphere was that it was 1 AU away from the sun

>>388334508
>I just point out a bad pic

There's nothing wrong with the pic other than you interpreting it as a map when it was clearly an abstract illustration to show scale.

>>388334512
>Square hole and a giant sun shaped hole in the sphere
For what purpose? That's not efficient.
>Captcha: star 2012

>>388333746
>containd a solar system inside.


HOLY FUCKING SHIT. A DYSON SPHERE CONTAINS A STAR YOU FUCKING RETARDED /B/ SHITTER FUCK FUCK FUCK

>>388334731

>The only retard here is you. You interpreted the picture wrong. It's entirely on you. You fucking dumb autistic piece of shit.

Stay ultra salty.

The pic says earth, in a thread talking about a game that takes place on earth, about a faction that has dyson technology who took over earth.

If the intention was to use the scale, the onus is on the image maker.

There is literally no debating this, your autism won't change this.

>>388330383

But Picard is a Jedi, right?

>144/24/65

>they have dyson sphere
>its actually a solid spherical shell that englobes the sun

Why is that Dyson spheres are always depicted like that?

>>388334963
>There is literally no debating this

There isn't because it's clear you're wrong. You're wrong because due to your autism you interpret everything literally and throw a tantrum like a fucking child when people explain to you you're not supposed to do that. You're such an autist that even after 5 or 6 different people explained the concept to you you still babbled on about "earth sphere theory" like your mistaken interpretation that existed only in your own head was an actual argument somebody had actually made.

>>388335132
I mean, what else would you go for?

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QUIT REPLYING TO THE SHITTER.

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>>388335132
>spherical
Does pic related look spherical to you, nigga?

>>388328607
>le pickle rick paid advertising

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>inter-dimensional space empire capable of constructing Dyson spheres and almost certainly enslaving zillions of worlds, including "Carbon stars with ancient satellites colonized by sentient fungi. Gas giants inhabited by vast meteorological intelligences. Worlds stretched thin across the membranes where [the] dimensions intersect..."
>capable of inter-dimensional travel
>incapable of intra-dimensional travel
>somehow, humanity's best minds were able to achieve this despite being millions of years behind the Combine in terms of technological advancement
what

>>388335132

It's not an actual sphere if it's not that. It's also the most efficient configuration. A Dyson Swarm would be far easier to build, but less efficient at actually gathering the energy.

>>388334575
That would be like trying to kill somebody by throwing a grain of sand at him.

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>>388334512

>>388327568
kill yourself OP

>>388335191

>There isn't because it's clear you're wrong. You're wrong because due to your autism you interpret everything literally and throw a tantrum like a fucking child

The *only* way I can be wrong is if this thread wasn't about Half-Life.

Somehow, I doubt a video game board creates threads to talk about the definition of Dyson Spheres.

There is no debating this, and the REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE from your post is palatable, please continue replying.

>>388335342
Why is it that the paint bucket tool still cannot fucking fill correctly

>>388335303
You've seen /v/ drawthreads, right?

>>388335486
the left sphere was painted with the spraycan.

>>388335486
Because some of the Paint tools are anti-aliased. Use something with a harder edge

>>388335486
its an error with compression. the edges that are not filled in are not the same white as the area that was filled

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>/v/ now has regular Dyson Sphere threads
The greatest challenge future AI will face is predicting the posting habits of this board.

>>388335305
Humanity found out how to easily teleport entirely by (((((accident))))), or rather by the designs of the G Man and whoever is behind him.

>>388329685
Correct.The Death Star is much stronger that a dyson sphere.It can produce in minutes the same amount of energy the Sun makes in hundreds of years.

>>388334961
Lol triggered

>>388336041
Wouldn't this discovery, accidental or planted, be the big reason why the Combine even care about earth? Trying to find the one technology they don't have.

if YOU were in the writing team of half life 3,and you could write anything you want,how would you write the ending of half life 3?
how does one destroy the combine?

>>388336612
Combine come to Earth because of the resonance cascade, so it's entirely possible that they were looking for teleportation tech.

>>388336612
And even if that's true, they still sent a pathetically inadequate force to subjugate the planet compared to what they're probably capable of.
>the absolute STATE of HL lore

>>388335879
not really, /tv/v/pol/ is basically one board

>>388336647
Reverse the flux capacitor on the Borealis, turning it into a black hole. Teleport it into the Combine's sun. Dyson sphere is now just a big, cold ball.

>>388336741
They won the war in 7 hours. They don't want to destroy the planet, they want to salvage the teleportation technology and possibly harvest all the natural resources from Earth (hence why the oceans are being drained).

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>>388336931
not terrible

>>388328798
the combine always want more because that's the sort of mindset that let them build a dyson sphere in the first place

I bet when every single universe is filled to the brim with nothing but combine property they would start discovering ways to make new universes, just to have something to expand into

>>388336647
Thats what Mossman wanted to do - harvest the technology from the Borealis and use it to develop a weapon capable of giving the resistance a REAL edge

Then dumb bitch Alyx killed her and decided to use the GAME CHANGING TECHNOLOGY to make a tiny scratch on the dyson sphere

>>388336931
great
>>388337172
what did alyx do?

I'm glad the game got scrapped. Giving the Combine such an absurd powerlevel would have made it impossible for Gordon to succeed. Everything else would have been plot armor and asspulls.

>dyson sphere

Uh, okay eggheads, maybe you could rephrase that in ENGLISH?

>>388337272
in the letter from Gordon Freeman with all this plot, she shot Judith Mossman after Mossman kicked her ass and was turning off the suicide bomb of the Borealis

so what kind of gurren lagann tier asspull would gordon needed to have to pull to defeat the combine?

>>388337428
*folds piece of paper in half*
*pokes a hole through it*

>>388337272
Killed Mossman, set the Borealis to go nuclear and ram the Combine base.
Turns out the Combine base (if it was even their base and not just an interdimensional train station) is a Dyson sphere (space station wrapped around a star) and the Borealis detonating against it would be like trying to sink a battleship with a firecracker.

>>388336963
I mean, might as well loot the planet while you're here? It's a drop in the bucket for a multidimensional civilization, but you might as well put yourself at a net gain for resources if you're bothering to invade to find the teleporter tech. .

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>>388337640

>>388337584
Why would he have to defeat them?
Sometimes there are battles that just can't be won.

>>388337584
dissolving his physical body and becoming some kind of fourdimensional space ghost

>>388337782
because they're evil

>>388337317
It doesn't matter how powerful they are as long as they have no way of getting back to Earth.

Tbh I don't understand how that makes sense anyway, since they're supposed to be capable of inter-dimensional travel and presumably know exactly where Earth is, can someone explain this?

>>388337640
That would work better for simplifying a wormhole though.

>>388336647
The planet destroyer in Ender's Game could do it. The matter it destroys powers the destruction of all adjacent matter, causing a chain reaction which can destroy an object of unlimited size.

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>everyone is suddenly an expert on megastructures

Dyson we can't hear you suck you dick

Dyson spheres are basically unlimited energy.

One around our sun would produce 400 septillion watts a second

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>tfw there was no mention of Chell showing up with the OP portal gun

>>388337871
They can teleport to a ROUGH area (like universe to universe or dimension to dimension or whatever HL was using), but Aperture shit was extremely precise, almost on the same level as G-Man's magic door shit except requiring being there already. And it's possible that if they had the aperture shit that they could have eliminated the requirement of having to be there to use it.

>>388337584
I guess he could portal it into a black hole or something?

>>388338027
Shut the fuck up, Rei.

>>388338125
Nobody cares, Dweebmeyer

I would literally rather KILL MYSELF than fight for some suck resistance

>>388329614
I'm not even mad anymore

>>388338148
So does that mean with the Borealis destroyed, they essentially have no way of getting back to Earth?

Then why are people complaining about the ending being bleak? Humanity is essentially saved, there's a good chance they could take on the Combine still left on Earth and win.

>>388337584
Get a chunk of iron and put it between two portals inside a vacuum tube, then let it fall forever to give it infinite energy, then shoot it at the star inside the dyson sphere

>>388336963
>(hence why the oceans are being drained).
That seems more like a 'fuck you' than anything else, or the Combines spacefaring technology is woefully underdeveloped compared to their interdimensional travel.

>>388332696
they won in 7 hours
then they installed minimum possible security on earth just because it's more mathematically efficient in the long run to occasionally come back and squash a planet for the second time than to keep real forces around for every backwater shithole you conquer

it's like in HOMM 3 when you give your scouting hero 1 centaur, it's not representative of your real forces at all

>>388327568
What is a dyson sphere?

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>>388327568
>"The next thing I clearly recall is our final approach to the coordinates Dr. Mossman has provided, and where we expected to find the Borealis. What we found instead was a complex fortified installation, showing all the hallmarks of sinister Combine technology"

>>388337317
>Implying that Combine are the real enemy


>Gman observes that Earth is developing time travel technology
>Gman uses the resonance cascade to lure Combine to Earth
>One guy somehow survives the entire ordeal, Gman is impressed and "recruits" him on the spot
>Combine proceed to demolish entire Earth in a single afternoon
>Gman leads Gordon to the Borealis
>Gordon travels back in time using the Borealis to kill the proto-Combine ensuring that the entire collective ceases to exist
>Time stops, all surroundings darken
>An elevator door opens shining white light everywhere
>Out of the blinding white light - Gman walks out
>Gman thanks Gordon for his services and terminates his employement
>Gman fixes his tie and walks back into the elevator
>The door closes
>Credits roll

Gman is a contract "assassin", his current target were the Combine.

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>negates your Borealis' attack

>>388338518
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+a+dyson+sphere%3F

>>388338441
Gman pulled Alyx out and the Vortigaunts pulled Gordon out

The issue is that Alyx blew up their big chance at fucking up the Combine or at least scaring them off by purging the Aperture Borealis tech. Without Eli's intelligence or Gman's alien materials, Black Mesa's former team is YEARS from making some new shit.

The only alternative way to fight against the Combine is essentially finding Aperture's underground research facility and convincing a testing focused AI to hand over some portal technology.

>>388332886
>It's retarded to assume they have more than one when only one is ever shown or mentioned.
No it's not once you actually start thinking about the logistics. It's actually more retarded to think they would stop at one.

Also It was said that one of the main reasons Valve removed developers from HL3 in recent years is because of the hate ME3 got for not living up to the expectations. So how does it feel to know that /v/ contributed to the death of HL3?

The real question is if the teleportation technology is such hot shit for the Combine, why are the only forces on earth native PD and a bunch of locally grown synths? Even if earth and its inhabitants aint shit, their failure to provide meaningful defenses for such an important asset was still taken advantage of by an outside force (G-man).

>>388338594
I liked how in the anime, when it was summoned it took a while to even get into view.

>>388337757
Good luck getting an orange portal to stick to a black hole.

>>388338540
Nah, G-Man being some advanced race's method of communication with humans works better. I like the idea of him being more powerful than the Combine, but not a galactic "assassin".

>>388338125
So? The process of transporting or actually storing it would be near impossible, and the loss of the sun's regular effect on it's surroundings would be catastrophic.

If you can make something the size of the sun, you should pretty clearly have better energy sources already.

>>388337757
only surfaces coated with moon dust can have portals applied to them.

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>>388338806
>So how does it feel to know that /v/ contributed to the death of HL3?
The ones who sealed HL3's fate are the retards who spend a bajillion dollars on cosmetics so that a single DOTA tournament makes them more money than HL3 sales ever would.

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>tfw no sticky

>>388336647
you don't
half life 3 ends with the humans creating a sealed-off pocket dimension smaller than the earth, knowing the combine will never get them, but that humanity will be confined to this miniscule living space forever as the combine consumes the multiverse

>>388338594
>Blue Eyes White Dragon is slightly stronger than a Dyson Sphere

>>388339052
the ME3 hate bandwagon was being nurtured here as well. That bandwagon is what discouraged Valve to continue. So don't be misdirecting blame now.

>>388339010
that's not true

>>388339151
Want to know how I know you're Swedish?

>>388337871
They can get back to earth, it's just slow and extremely costly. It's like drilling a hole through a mountain just to get to the other side.

>>388338806
But ME3 was a legit good game, despite having a lackluster ending. In fact, I'd say it's better than ME2.

The Citadel DLC alone was just the cherry to the top. In my headcanon, the serie ended right at the end of that DLC. The real ending doesn't matter.

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>>388339120
>tfw i have the original thread with more than 1000 posts

>>388337757
gravity doesn't pass through portals

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>>388338806
>hate ME3 got for not living up to the expectations
ME3 got shat on because the ending was awful and the exact opposite of what they promised the ending would be. It wasn't hated for not living up to expectations

>>388339318
Mechanically it made some improvements (and also had a shitload of bugs), but storywise it went like this

1 - While the story was focused on world building and introducing conflicts in this universe but still a solid story.
2 - Less but still existing world building (focus on non-citadel space was cool) and while the story was sort of fun it felt like an expansion pack in terms of impact to the main plotlines
3 - Ending was total garbage, and many of the plotlines were essentially "oh you let X die? well here's a doppleganger of X".

>>388339397
Actually both of those things go hand in hand in the case of ME3. Because people EXPECTED that all the little storylines from previous game will matter in ME3 and have an impact. People EXPECTED the ending will be satisfying. So yes, it was a matter of expectations.

>>388337317
>Giving the Combine such an absurd powerlevel would have made it impossible for Gordon to succeed
You lose, you've been played, your greatest weapon is nothing. All you've ever done is played the pawn and at the end you get discarded when you're no longer useful and your grand reward for the whole thing is seeing just how powerless you always were. It's been cosmic horror the whole time, baby.

>>388338594
>about to type 'yugioh dyson sphere' into search bar
>Google autocompletes two letters in.
The botnet is real.

>>388339735
Don't forget that your buddy since HL2 blows up your biggest tool against the Combine (portal/advanced teleprotation technology) because she's mad that they killed her dad

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>>388338027
Fuck off, Rei.

>>388338027
We have a good place to learn about them

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

>>388338125
What's pathetic is that the sun is already unlimited energy naturally being transported to us for the majority of the day and solar still isn't a standard for some reason.

>>388339186

By your logic, shit games (and let's be clear, ME3 was a shit game and deserved everything it got) should never get shat on because that might make different, unrelated developers scared of making games. Is that your argument?

>>388328607
to be fair, dyson spheres is a pretty cool concept despite how virtually impossible it is

>>388329182
That wasn't the Empire you dingus. That was the First Order.

also that's the space equivalent of
>"i have a black friend"

>>388338027
>dumb rei poster

>>388335426

It doesn't matter what the fuck the THREAD is about you idiot, it matters what the POST was about. The post was clearly about explaining what the fuck a Dyson Sphere is to an idiot who was already referencing unrelated objects in Star Wars, meaning the conversation was already way out of the Half-life universe.

Can't believe you're such an autist that you're still trying to cover your ass about this. Just admit your mistake like a normal person and move on.

>>388329074

One simple reason.

eliminating competition

any civilization left unchecked can reach a technological singularity and become a rival in no time at all

look at how much humanity progressed in 100-200 years

and in the HL universe humanity already has access to portal tech as well

>>388339967
Good to see another IA viewer. But keep in mind, while well sourced and well thought out, don't take his videos as anything definitive. His stuff is a very good experiment, not based in actual, verifiable facts. There's a lot of things we still don't know about science and reality, though we will find out eventually. Plus, this is a video game based in SCI FI. Lots of liberties can be taken

>>388340704
That's a part of it, but otherwise they would have just destroyed all human life as soon as possible.

Breen very likely made them aware of the fact that they were making significant strides on portal/teleportation tech when he negotiated the end of the 7 Hour War. Considering the vast resources the Combine command, having instant teleportation from one end of their empire to the other could be invaluable.

>>388340194
what I'm trying to say is that /v/ should have prepared for unforeseen consequences

>>388338806
But ME3 actually was shit and deserved all the flak it got.

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>>388328798
To save the world.

>>388340072
Solar isn't a standard because current solar panel technology is inefficient, damaging to the environment, extremely expensive to produce, and generally not worth it.
However if every random schmuck had solar panels on the roof of his house there would be a lot less use of traditional power sources. However that can't happen because solar panels are expensive as fuck so only rich people can afford them.

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>>388338996
>and the loss of the sun's regular effect on it's surroundings would be catastrophic
lol not our sun

>>388327568
It doesn't really matter, humanity is fucked either way, until Ms Vance rises and shines, i guess.

>>388333675
32gb is enough for all the non-shovelware gaems

>>388343456
Solar Panels are alot cheaper nowadays than they used to. Solar Plants are getting way more cost-efficient. But what are the dangers to the environment?
I'd like to have some source on that.

>>388332696
>have a dyson sphere
>conquer entire Earth in 7 hours
>have god knows how much resources and advanced technology
>still have to drain Earth's oceans
>still can't defelop efficient teleportation technology while some puny humans on easily conquered planet could
>can't get even a fraction of the unstoppable force which was able to subjugate an entire planet to occupy it
>all the occupying forces lost to some nerd in a hazmat suit, Combine's HQ destroyed, and with it the only portal to the Combine Overworld

>>388344126
Basically solar panels are extremely fragile and break quickly, and disposing of them is extremely difficult. Large solar farms destroy natural habitats and cook birds.

>>388344302
How are they cooking birds?
Solar Panels are working on Photovoltaik. They aren't burning stuff.
In theory you CAN recycle Solar panels, but iirc "that job" hasn't really been picked up by anybody but the chinese at some level.
I also really want a source on environmental damage.
It's true tho about the disposal as long as people aren't really going "Solar" there also won't be people that will recycle broken panels

>>388328607
pretty sure most people know what they are from star wars/40k/scifi novels

>>388327568
>They have a dyson sphere
>We have a jury rigged ship
> = We're fucked.

>>388344584
Large solar farms raise the natural temperature in the air above them, which can kill birds that fly overhead by overheating them. It's not literally cooking them, it's just raising the ambient temperature too high for them. This causes more problems, because the dead birds fall onto the solar panels and break them.
The environmental damage is the same as disposing any other hazardous material.

>>388344189
The Combine have had both their hands tied behind their back because they don't want to destroy all the creators of the portal/teleportation technology they want. They've likely wanted this sort of precise teleportation tech for many years (like the G-Man's shit), so they aren't going to destroy the Earth until they get it

>>388344743
Alright, yea I just checked up that claim and it makes sense. Hopefully People will find solutions to that

>>388344928
Obviously solar energy isn't horrible and useless right now. It just needs to be made much easier to produce and recycle in order to be viable.

>>388331263
>the combine wanted to build another sphere
>our planet is in the way
>"let's rob this planet's resources before we blow it up and start building"
>the advisors were othing more but construction workers

OP I don't think you recognize how quickly your technological advancements increase after your race is capable of completely harnessing the power of a star.

By nature of having 1 dyson sphere there's no reason to believe they don't have hundreds.

>>388327568
Do you realize how difficult making a Dyson sphere is?

>>388345163
It's pretty likely they're out harvesting all the other planets in the system as well. No reason not to dig up all the iron and rare metals on Mars when you've got an army of slaves barely a single AU away.

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How are you even supposed to transfer the energy a dyson sphere creates to the planets in your system?
Seems like you'd need some very big cables

>>388345697
Really big batteries, or you could use the sun to create bigass dark energy reactors for your ships and prefabricated housing.

A single, very long extension cord runs from the structure to the planet in need of energy.

>>388345697
Giant laser beams

>>388345258
>By nature of having 1 dyson sphere there's no reason to believe they don't have hundreds.
Dyson sphere does not imply easy and efficient FTL travel.

>>388346240
It implies interstellar travel, since the materials required to build one wouldn't be available in a single solar system.

>>388327568
>just build dyson sphere
>some fucks from a backwater planet blow a massive hole in it with a boat

Or it could be they have thousands of them and this is an expected loss.

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>>388328798
To compete and survive against people who own more dyson spheres, and ultimately, fuck cute boipussys and not be labeled as a huge faggot by your peers.

>>388346540
>massive hole
Anon. It's a shipping tanker. A shipping tanker crashing into earth wouldn't make a massive hole, and that's about 1/109th the diameter of the sun.

It would be like a microscopic organism crashing into you.

>>388345697
isn't it a seal not a dolphin

>>388346446
Built out of the sun.

>>388346945
>Build the energy harnessing apparatus out of the energy source
?????????????

>>388347117
ya

>>388328607
Thanks for reminding me that in the 6 or so months I haven't been to /tv/ I've missed several hundred memes

>>388345697
Was she rape?

>>388346743
But isnt it powered by unstable dimentional portal technology?
It isnt your standard tanker.

>>388344726
I actually had no fucking clue what a Dyson sphere was before this whole debacle. Granted, movies don't hold my interest too well and tabletop games don't either so take that as you will. However after reading about what it was I completely understood.

Why do people say that Dyson Spheres are unachievable for us?
A Dyson Swarm is possible even with today's tech and it doesn't go against any known physics.
It's basically a bunch of photovoltaics around the sun.
Also, you don't build one straight away. You slowly add to it. First a few satelites with panels, then you got enough energy to add more easier, and so on.

>>388328798
>If you have everything you want, why not show some mercy to the goyim?

>>388347483
No, we don't rape little girls

>>388347824
>A Dyson Swarm is possible even with today's tech
Good luck with the cooling system

>>388327568
I remember reading an article where some scientist was arguing that Dyson Spheres are a meme. His argument boiled down to any civilization capable of creating a Dyson Sphere is so technologically advanced they'd be better off doing anything else with their time and resources.

>>388348003
A Dyson Swarm doesn't need to be very close to the sun, not to start with at least.
Any number of shitty solar panels anywhere around the sun could count as a 'Dyson Swarm'.
Then you simply use their energy to add more and improve them, untill you have a Dyson Sphere after several generations.

>"The story is literally pointless. The end."
Love these kind of endings. Right up there with Dead Space.

>>388348454
Anon, a Dyson Sphere is possible with today's tech.
The only problem is the amount of material needed, but as it's been said already, you don't built it all in one go, you built a few solar panels and then add to it as needed.

>>388348464
>Then you simply use their energy to add more and improve them, untill you have a Dyson Sphere after several generations.

Gathering and transporting the required materials alone would require technologies and scientific advancements that we'll likely never have.

What game lets me build a Dyson sphere?

>>388345697
That's why you don't.
It's usually easier/cheaper/more practical to build space habitats near or in your Dyson Swarm.
You don't need cables if all your infastructure is there.

>>388332696
They conquered Earth in 7 hours.
The retaliation that was supposed come in Episode 2 would end the resistance in less than 7 minutes.

>>388348746
You'll be suprised what we could be able to do with basically infinite energy.
And in the first place, sticking rockets on an asteroid isn't anything spectacular.

>>388346708
>can harvest the sun and drill holes between universes
>still can't make traps not gay

>>388348636
>Anon, a Dyson Sphere is possible with today's tech.
No, we don't have a material that could handle the structural stress.
We also don't have the technology to keep it in position.

>>388347589
no worries, I was generalizing because I know those medias are popular here. I've never played 40k tabletop either, just read the novels and video games

Why are Dyson spheres almost always portrayed as solid shells mostly shrouding the star they're built around?

It'd be much more practical to build them as a massive web of connected rotating habitats similar to O'neill cylinders.

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>>388349081
ITS ABOUT THE MEMES ANON

HE WHO CONTROLS THE MEMES CONTROL THE UNIVERSE

>>388349258
Then you're missing light.

>>388349060
>You'll be suprised what we could be able to do with basically infinite energy.

We do not have remotely close to the technology needed to reliable store or transport the energy from a dyson swarm in any meaningful way, and won't for some time.

>And in the first place, sticking rockets on an asteroid isn't anything spectacular.

I think the problem is that you are conflating "we've started light steps and experiments with these ideas" with "we can do that now and if we tried harder and spent more money we would do it better".

Successfully landing anything on an Asteroid is still a huge achievement and an astronomically difficult feat.

>>388349104
We do, but we can't mass produce it yet.
Also, a Dyson Sphere doesn't need to be a massive ball. It can literally be just a few million small satellites.
If we could shit out a few trillion of the satellites we had even in the 60s and 70s and place them around the sun, that's a Dyson Swarm.
Obviously we lack the material for that many, but asteroid mining and such stuff aren't sci-fi pipedreams, they will happen.

>>388349258
If you're building it to capture energy, then you'd want as much surface area as possible.

But in fiction it often comes down to what kind of superstructures the author makes possible in their universe. Sometimes it's more like what you say.

>>388349521
>We do, but we can't mass produce it yet.
No we don't.
>inb4 muh carbon nanotubes

>>388349485
Anon, I'm not saying we could do it in the forseeable future if we poured enough money into it.
But, the concept doesn't require any new science or technologies than what we already have.
Certainly, taking advantage of the energy would require us to build our infastructure in space and that's where our tech falls short.

>>388333551
This

Why is it so hard for some people to grasp?

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>>388332980
>hey came to earth to steal transdimmensional portal tech
How can they have the tech to build Dyson Spheres and not transdimensional portal tech?

>>388349778
Forget about carbon tubes and other meme marerials.
Can we build solar panels? Yes.
Can we put them in space? Yes.
Thus, we can make a Dyson Swarm.

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>>388349814
>the concept doesn't require any new science or technologies than what we already have

>>388349814
>if we poured enough money into it
defense budgets come first. you would have to get the entire globe operating under one government before its possible to fund that shit

>>388349814
>But, the concept doesn't require any new science or technologies than what we already have.

It requires battery storage or transmission tech far better than what we have, and likely some sort of major paradigm shift in either.

>>388349870
Combine don't shower, therefore no shower curtain companies.

>>388327568
Wouldn't it be better to just small tiny dyson spheres containing small artificial suns directly into your ships and onto your planets?

>>388349948
You said dyson sphere.

>>388349950
Anon it's literally photovoltaics in space.
You're not gonna build a ball around the sun in one go.

>>388350061
>photovoltaics in space
You know that's not the hard part, right?

>>388332980
Nope, they came to steal intradimensional portal tech.
They can teleport between dimensions, thats their thing.

They cant teleport within the same dimension without jumping to another dimension in between, which is way way way slower, and requires a bigger infrastructure.

>>388350061
>"I put 5 satallites up I made dyson swarm!"

>>388349974
Read my post again.
The most efficient thing we can do is build our infastructure right next to them, and indeed we lack the technology for that at the moment.
BUT, it is scientifically possible.

>super advanced alien civilization
>has had inter-dimensional teleportation for some time
>can't figure out how to teleport between points in the same dimension
>G-Man helps humans develop inter-dimensional teleportation
>despite having their planet conquered, they create single-dimension teleportation in a matter of years
>Cave Johnson did the same without any help in the 1950s too
Some advanced race the Combine are

>>388350157
Yes. A really small, shitty one, but still a Dyson Swarm.
Or do you think we'll just build a ball around the sun all in one go?

>>388350235
>doesn't require any new... technologies than what we already have.
>and indeed we lack the technology for that at the moment.
One of these things is not like the other.

>>388350257
Yumanity aren't the ones with the interdimensional empire though.

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>>388349814
>>388350235
>the concept doesn't require any new science or technologies than what we already have.
>we lack the technology for that at the moment.

>>388330383
TFA is not canon

>>388350425
>>388350471
To take advantage of a Dyson Swarm's energy we would need to build infastructure right next to it.
O'Neill cylinders and the like. Those are scientifically possible, but we can't mass produce a strong enough material for them yet.
That said, nothing's stopping us from making really small factories the size of the ISS or something.

>>388348779
stellaris

>>388350774
>muh carbon nanotubes

>>388350774
We do not have the technology for O'Neill cylinders. Artificial gravity is needed for such a thing and simply rotating a cylinder to generate centrifugal force isn't enough. The gravity you feel on your head would be different from the gravity on your feet, and it would make living or even moving in such a structure extremely difficult.

>>388351113
I don't know about that, but even without megastructures we could still make factories the size of our current space stations to take advantage of potential solar panel energy.
I'm not trying to argue a Dyson Swarm is something we should even consider for the next few hundred years, what I'm saying is that it's potentially possible even without any new technologies.

For. anyone who wants to know more about Dyson Spheres.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlmKejRSVd8&t=7s

>>388350774
>>388351414
Making a factory the size of the ISS is not amazing.
The reason dyson swarms are impressive is because of the scale.
If you're not even close to capturing a percent of the sun's output it's not a dyson swarm.

>>388352002
You have to start somewhere.
A few hundred satellites, not much unlike those we have today, powering factories roughly the size of the ISS is probably what our first 'Dyson Swarm' will look like.

>>388347485
hmmm how could it be

>>388345697
no planets? just structures

>people talking about dyson swarm
>they don't realize you can't have satellites being stationary from each other in a 3d distribution, only in a plane
It's like you didnt even play KSP

>>388328540
Do dyson spheres create matter? Because even with unlimited energy it's not like you can just spawn another dyson sphere from nothing. Star sized structures aren't built with energy.

>>388352503
At that point, the dyson sphere probably could duplicate itself with self replicating nanobots.

>>388352435
>you can't have satellites being stationary from each other in a 3d distribution
Yes you can.

>>388352746
At which point? He is asking if it can create matter, and it has only been stated that i can collect energy.

>>388352874
Oh really?
In that case, you could cover a planet with geostationary satellites then, right?

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>we have dyson sphere
>we must invade small planets and steal their resources

>>388352503
Just having the resources to build a megastructure without bankrupting your empire is impressive by itself, so I think the point here is moot

>>388352982
They can be stationary with respect to each other without being geostationary.
>needing a solar panel to be geostationary
tard

>>388352982
I don't understand how moving would be a problem for a Dyson Swarm.