From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 02:12:49 MDT
At 09:57 AM 5/17/02 +0200, Anders wrote:
>The problem is that you would need to pay energy costs to heat up the
>star (moving heat from somewhere cold to somewhere hot), so it would be
>very inefficient.
Yeah, but the premise is that if you don't pay for stealth, some Evil Thing
will come and eat/terminate you. It's worth being inefficient if you have
to be, to avoid that. But obviously if you can attain the same end while
being thrifty...
>> Of course it's also most annoying when gravity-detecting explorers come
>> visit the anomaly in `empty' space, and smash right through the shell.
>Better try to set up some multicultural warnings
>heavy gold objects to demonstrate
>"nothing valuable here"
:)
But again, you can't put up signposts if the whole idea is to cower inside
the 2.7 degree-reflecting mirror shell.
Damien Broderick
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