Posts by Loren Pechtel
While I don't have the answers I can give you a starting point: Forget the volume, ignore what the people need to live in. It doesn't matter. The limiting factor will be food production. If the...
While ckersch's answer is correct on the energy needed there's a deeper issue involved here that I think you are missing: The main part of the energy needed to destroy a planet is the energy neede...
Big misunderstanding here: Lets look at what "stop" really means. You have to define a context for stop. 1) Relative to the wizard, 2) relative to the planet, 3) relative to the star, 4) relati...
There was a question on here a while ago about lighting a massive Dyson sphere, that has gotten me to thinking. Obviously, such an item needs some unobtainium to build, but ignore that. I'm figur...
Note: There is a related question about illuminating such a sphere that inspired this question. I'm going much farther, though, this is not a dupe. The Dyson sphere will be the central mass of t...
