So Chris Columbus gets back to Spain and says, “And the whole point of this is to build a city on the west coast that will be populated by over 12 million people,” at which point he is laughed out of court.
LA would have been a ridiculous idea to the Europeans when America was first discovered, and no one would have said it was feasible at the time, yet there it is, just another achievement built on the successes of thousands of years of civilization. I don’t see why a Dyson swarm or other megasteuctures would be any different.
You are correct. That was a hypothetical comment that is absurd now as the ones about not making a Dyson shell sometime in the future if civilization doesn’t collapse first.
So Chris Columbus gets back to Spain and says, “And the whole point of this is to build a city on the west coast that will be populated by over 12 million people,” at which point he is laughed out of court.
LA would have been a ridiculous idea to the Europeans when America was first discovered, and no one would have said it was feasible at the time, yet there it is, just another achievement built on the successes of thousands of years of civilization. I don’t see why a Dyson swarm or other megasteuctures would be any different.
LA is hardly hundreds of years old.
You are correct. That was a hypothetical comment that is absurd now as the ones about not making a Dyson shell sometime in the future if civilization doesn’t collapse first.