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Project "Stapledon": Humanity to step up on the Kardashev scale!
| (stellaris!
Man of taste OP)
Oh how exciting
To see such a wonder of science possibly completed in my lifetime.
>N3verW3re
| There's no way this can end well. Somebody's gonna pull a wire and this place is gonna be gone in an instant.
| Im surprised they managed to agree about anything at all, let alone something of such a scale.
| I think you should go for a black hole instead of a star. If you treat it correctly, a black hole can give you more or less endless energy. Star energy is shit in comparison. Just a tips, from your friendly former space traveler.
-GG
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| Great Pyramid of Giza, Colossus of Rhodes, Lighthouse of Alexandria - humanity's history presents us many examples of engineering marvels, construction projects of incredible scale. But today's announcement of Project "Stapledon" quite literally overshadows everything humanity had ever built.
Agreements signed by UKoBIaNMC, USA, Japan, NSR, UAE, China and more than 790 international corporations give birth to the "Wonder to end all wonders". Project "Stapledon" - construction of the first ever Dyson swarm around the star of Proxima Centauri has officially begun today.
The sheer scale of engineering behind the Project "Stapledon" is shocking. With total price of millions of billions nuyen, construction will take over 40 years to complete!
The end goal of Project "Stapledon" is to create a Nicoll-Dyson beam, which would then be used to transmit energy of Proxima Centauri through the network of artifitial wormholes - such as AW-0001 and AW-0002, connecting Solar system with Alpha Centauri. With an access to the energy output of an entire sun, estimated profits from the Project "Stapledon" exceed billions of BILLIONS nuyen.
According to the London's "Clock Tower" University paper "Project 'Stapledon' - Civilization 2.0", current ENTIRE energy output of humanity is mere 12% of expected output of Project "Stapledon".
Editor's note: As some of our readers might not know, but Dyson sphere - or Dyson swarm in the case of Project "Stapledon", - is a no-longer-fictional concept of a megastructure, encompassing an entire star. Such structure would be able to collect all energy produced by the star it orbits, outclassing any currently known means of energy production.
With some modifications, such megastracture could be used to form a beam - like a laser - of the solar light, and launch it across space, resulting in a Nicoll-Dyson beam.