• @fox2263@lemmy.world
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    385 months ago

    I don’t know like. Have you ever slept next to a woman? They generate about a Dyson spheres suns worth of heat.

  • southsamurai
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    375 months ago

    But it’s in incomplete list. Without boobs, it isn’t a fair comparison.

  • ferret
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    315 months ago

    A trillion of an SI prefix will always be silly. Just use a bigger prefix!

      • @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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        85 months ago

        Most of us aren’t used to “terrawatts” though. Is that like one Earth worth of watts? One watt as measured on Earth? The definition of watt culturally accepted by Earthlings?

        • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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          5 months ago

          You wouldn’t find a terawatt in everyday usage, but a terawatt-hour is pretty commonplace when talking about the energy usage of entire populations.

          This Reuters article states US power demand will climb to “4,027 billion kWh in 2022.” Yeah, just say 4 PWh. Or even 4,027 TWh. It’s a little more easily digested.

          It’s already an incomprehensably high number. No matter which way you state it is going to fly over peoples heads.

          And the entire electricity consumption of the planet is something like 25.5 petawatt-houts.

          • QuinceDaPence
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            45 months ago

            They say it like that because people are used to being billed in kWh so it gives them a reference.

          • @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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            15 months ago

            Oh that’s super interesting and I did not know that, but I was riffing off the double R in “terrawatt,” instead of “terawatt.”

            Like “tera” describes an order of magnitude, but “terra” means “earth,” as in “terra firma,” “terra nova,” or “terran.”

            So I guess you could say that 25.5 petawatt-hours = 25,500 terawatt-hours = 1 terrawatt-hour.

  • @girl@lemm.ee
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    165 months ago

    how can women be expected to compete against the dyson sphere? it’s all over for us, smh 😔

    • @Fedizen@lemmy.world
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      I doubt it. A structure like that would be an enourmous engineering project pummeled by solar radiation on the inside and space debris on the outside.

    • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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      45 months ago

      I guess it would depend on the temperature resistance and how the power is transmitted. Even solar panels wear out, and the collection surfaces of a dyson sphere would be a lot higher temp. But with something that scale, I’d imagine it would be a ton of maintenance work even if was a tiny amount per area.

    • @schema@lemmy.world
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      25 months ago

      I mean wouldn’t you still have to maintain the electrics of a sun sized surface? I guess you could use its own power for maintenance robots…

  • Chill Dude 69
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    5 months ago

    I would like to submit an analogy that accurately communicates how overrated Dyson spheres are:

    Dyson sphere = non-trebuchet catapult

    Dyson ring = trebuchet

    Fact.