Re: Ringworld Galaxy

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 01:39:43 MDT


On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 02:04:55PM +1000, Damien Broderick wrote:
> Holy shit! It's an Infernal Machine!
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0209/06hubble/
>
> (I especially like the *other* one in the same shot. Colonization!)

Neat! Reminds me of my idea of making really big Jupiter brains by taking
a globular cluster (or a galaxy), making the stars to either fall into
the core (where they are converted to neutronium and used to build the
machine) or into high orbits to be used as fuel later. I wonder about the
properties of that core - it seems like a normal, very spherical
galaxy, but maybe that is just the biege casing...

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