• fox2263
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    381 year ago

    I don’t know like. Have you ever slept next to a woman? They generate about a Dyson spheres suns worth of heat.

    • @[email protected]
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      191 year ago

      Damn, you got that model, mine is just subzero temp freezer, but it balances out since Im practically a nuclear reactor of heat

      • fox2263
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        71 year ago

        It is useful in winter.

        I’m normally cold except if I’ve had a late takeaway or a drink, then I turn in to a furnace 🤣

    • Chill Dude 69
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      21 year ago

      That…that explains why they consider all environments to be immeasurably cold. If they’re radiating all that heat, any exterior environment seems like 0 degrees Kelvin.

  • southsamurai
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    371 year ago

    But it’s in incomplete list. Without boobs, it isn’t a fair comparison.

  • ferret
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    311 year ago

    A trillion of an SI prefix will always be silly. Just use a bigger prefix!

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        Most of us aren’t used to “terrawatts” though. Is that like one Earth worth of watts? One watt as measured on Earth? The definition of watt culturally accepted by Earthlings?

        • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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          You wouldn’t find a terawatt in everyday usage, but a terawatt-hour is pretty commonplace when talking about the energy usage of entire populations.

          This Reuters article states US power demand will climb to “4,027 billion kWh in 2022.” Yeah, just say 4 PWh. Or even 4,027 TWh. It’s a little more easily digested.

          It’s already an incomprehensably high number. No matter which way you state it is going to fly over peoples heads.

          And the entire electricity consumption of the planet is something like 25.5 petawatt-houts.

          • QuinceDaPence
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            41 year ago

            They say it like that because people are used to being billed in kWh so it gives them a reference.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            I think theperson you’re replying to was making a joke off the misspelling of “terrawatts” in OP.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Oh that’s super interesting and I did not know that, but I was riffing off the double R in “terrawatt,” instead of “terawatt.”

            Like “tera” describes an order of magnitude, but “terra” means “earth,” as in “terra firma,” “terra nova,” or “terran.”

            So I guess you could say that 25.5 petawatt-hours = 25,500 terawatt-hours = 1 terrawatt-hour.

  • @[email protected]
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    231 year ago

    There’s another way a girlfriend is like a Dyson sphere. I don’t have a Dyson sphere.

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      I doubt it. A structure like that would be an enourmous engineering project pummeled by solar radiation on the inside and space debris on the outside.

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      I guess it would depend on the temperature resistance and how the power is transmitted. Even solar panels wear out, and the collection surfaces of a dyson sphere would be a lot higher temp. But with something that scale, I’d imagine it would be a ton of maintenance work even if was a tiny amount per area.

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      21 year ago

      I mean wouldn’t you still have to maintain the electrics of a sun sized surface? I guess you could use its own power for maintenance robots…

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    I would like to submit an analogy that accurately communicates how overrated Dyson spheres are:

    Dyson sphere = non-trebuchet catapult

    Dyson ring = trebuchet

    Fact.