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How many times has there been 13 people inside the ISS and is it hard on the station?

Creamer and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, all flight engineers. …
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Do astronauts on board the ISS have a backup spacesuit?

But maybe they flew a fitted spacesuit up ahead of time for Dyson just to free up cargo space on a potential future rescue flight. … If that is the case I wonder if they had planned to send the suit back later on a cargo Dragon after Dyson departed the station. …
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Would it be possible to create a relatively permanent Kessler syndrome event in interplaneta...

This is, I think, distinct from a Dyson sphere/swarm situation. …
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How often have signs of life been dismissed as abiotic?

There are stars we've found that have frequent and almost regular dimming that is unexpected based on our solar formation models - evidence of a civilization working on a Dyson sphere, or the result of …
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Is interstellar communications by transit ray blocking ("Dark Star") novel, plausible?

Certainly it would not seem plausible for a current or near future earth civilization to build, though one that is already building dyson swarms for solar energy collection might choose to use them to …
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Space Mega-structure Feasability

In addition to these seemingly non-fictional devices, there's tons of fictional mega structures like Dyson Spheres, Ring Worlds, Terraforming and other more "fictional", "long-term" or "planetary-scale …
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Could mirrors used in a Dyson Swarm be made from asteroids in the inner asteroid belt?

of the inner asteroid belt is only equivalent to about 0.7% of Mercury's mass, so according to the material requirements from the video, you would not be able to complete the construction project of a Dyson
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Could mirrors used in a Dyson Swarm be made from asteroids in the inner asteroid belt?

In this video from Kurzgesagt they said that one would need to disassemble a whole planet to build a Dyson swarm around the sun. …
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Would we be able to tell if another civilisation built a Dyson sphere (or similar) around a ...

A list of my thoughts/assumptions we have a good understanding of how stars live and die, so a "healthy" star (I assume you would only build a Dyson sphere around a star that's going to last a long time …
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Would we be able to tell if another civilisation built a Dyson sphere (or similar) around a ...

Some modelling suggest Dyson spheres would be easy to detect due the fact they will be radiating close to 100% of the parent star's energy output, but over a much larger area and lower temperature producing … Related: A previous 2013 answer from Astronomy SE Answer on hiding a Dyson Sphere on Physics SE …
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Could using magnetism principles aid us in achieve near speed of light travel

The nice thing is, that since you're already basically building a dyson sphere (or at least the ring part of it) you can use a sizeable portion of the energy output of the sun. …
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Is the universe already colonized or are the Drake equation coefficients a much stronger fil...

posits a path to colonizing/probing the universe with lightweight (30g) or heavyweight (500t) probes based on 3 propulsion methods (fission, fusion, antimatter) by mining a planet like Mercury to make a Dyson … to start a new Dyson swarm and probe factory? I'm more concerned with the light-speed travel, dust density, Hubble flow, material longevity and other more physical assumptions made. …
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Could a Dyson-Harrop Stellar Wind Power Satellite generate a magnetic shield for Mars?

A Dyson-Harrop satellite is designed to generate energy from the stellar wind and is estimated to be able to generate 1.7 Megawatts using just 300 meters of copper wire. …
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Why can't you travel to Mars in a straight line?

(Short of being fixed to a Dyson sphere or something).Instead, we start from Earth which is buzzing around the sun at 30 km⁄s, and before we could start heading out towards Mars radially we would need …
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Realistic cost of pulse units for nuclear pulse propulsion?

Freeman Dyson estimated 500,000 USD as reasonable per-unit cost with total fuel cost 175 million USD." Are these cost estimates realistic ? …

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