#Dyson Sphere

[wakingdreamworld]

Inside the Dyson Sphere - Pt 2

More 'Dyson Spheres'. Plus something that looks very real from my city.

[jareckiworld]

Dyson Sphere

[theseworldsareyours]

Dyson Sphere by Mitchell Stuart

[alphamecha-mkii]

Megastructures - Dyson Sphere by Neil Blevins

[thinktankresearch]

[leo-fie]

There aren't enough Dyson Trees in Science Fiction.

I can't believe Dan Simmon's Hyperion was the first time I heard of this concept.

It's a tree that's a space ship. A space ship that is a tree. It's the most delicious idea! Where is it?

It's called Dyson after Freeman J. Dyson, a mathematician and physicist, who also thought up the Dyson Sphere. A concept I'm sure many are familiar with. (There's also the O'Neill Cylinder, that colony thing at the end of Interstellar)

A Dyson Tree is a construct where a plant grows inside a comet or asteroid or something and produces it's own atmosphere. With a human crew it could easily be envisioned as a system where humans produce CO2 and the plant produces oxygen. Slap on some thrusters and you have a space ship. Some artificial gravity and you have a tree instead of a bush.

Tree houses! In space!

And it's not just some fancy scifi nonsense, oh no! An actual nerd thought of this!

[oudkee]

yu-gi-oh zexal production art - episode 63

[aytonai]

Dyson Galaxy 2

[stra-tek]

They need to make a whole series about a small group of Starfleet officers or civilian scientists in a tiny science ship investigating the UNCOMPREHENDABLY ENOURMOUS Dyson Sphere from "Relics"

Think Ringworld meets Lost

Yes I know the Sphere from "Relics" was unstable, maybe they find another one. There was one in a TOS novel too but it fell into a black hole.

Who built it?

Where did they go and why?

Who else may have found the Sphere and made a home there?

Endless forests, cities, sewers, hi-tech places, impossible vistas done on their VR screens. Even if it's not a Trek show, the concept is too good to be a B-plot in an episode then never mentioned again!

[ekho-ekho-ekho]

man, I just. cannot take dyson spheres seriously. it's so fucking silly whenever they're mentioned in a serious astronomical context. like, imagine if every time NASA found a weird planetoid in the oort cloud, the headlines were all

NASA Confirms New Dwarf Planet is "Definitely For Suresies" Not A Death Star

[cyberdragoninfinity]

still got 15 minutes to 5/5 over here, happy V Christopher Quinton Arclight day! Love you Chris and love you DYSON SPHERE!!!!!!!

[archiethinking]

I don't think Factorio is good.

That must come as a shock to the many fans that this game has. I know how much effort went into polishing it, how much thought was spent trying to perfect it. But I simply don't like it.

The issue I have with it, and that I also have with other games such Satisfactory or DSP, is that it gets stale. So stale. I cannot finish these games, I often don't even make it out of the mid-game.

I'm not sure why people like these games to be honest. Building belts and machines can only interest me for so long. After the 200th furnace I am spent mentally. It requires so much manual mental labor to sit there and do the same thing over-and-over again that my brain melts. It simply refuses. I get headaches and I stop: and I usually never pick it back up again.

It is in fact quite sad how neither satisfactory nor DSP seem able to effectively innovate upon the foundation of factorio in any meaningful way. Yes the third dimension is fun, but it does not fix it. It simply delays the inevitable.

In satisfactory I was genuinely saddened by the lack of anything new. I'd say that the beginning game of manually fueling Bio-reactors is even worse than factorio's mis-paced mess of a beginning, because its simply even more repetitive labor. But not even DSP is safe from this. The idea of having to walk and fly slower until you can develop tech that allows you to magically walk a meter per second quicker is tedious. In addition to the issues factorio poses, It is what kills these games for me.

So why has nobody fixed it? I think its very much a solvable issue. The features that are tedious are right there, out in the open. Simply salivating to be improved upon. Yet I think I've only found one project to have actually attempted to fix it.

That game is Minecraft. Now, hold on. Not just Minecraft. As fun as it is, its definitely no factory management game. But what makes it that is a mod for it called 'Create'. Despite the uninspired name this mod does what these other three games could not. It engages the player with innovative, actual third dimensional gameplay, unlike whatever garbage the other games have done, and does so while smoothly integrating minecraft within it. Nothing about it is repetitive in my mind. Every thing has a different way of being done, and different blocks required to do it.

I have spent 100+ hours on each of my two bases, having created factories that created everything for me and did so speedily. If you like the inherent puzzle-ness of factorio, and you want a fresh take on automation, please play this mod.

To give you a sneak-peek of what this mod does, I tell you only this: It adds rails with trains, it adds moving contraptions that can engage with the world, and it has many integrations with other mods.

It'd be an understatement to say that it keeps you engaged. It keeps you hooked, chained to the factory until your game runs out of frames.

It is a genuine 10/10.

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/create

[bowtiedauthor]

The Human Dyson Sphere

There’s light inside me. I feel it — steady, stubborn, humming beneath my thoughts, beneath the grind of breath and blood. It burns. It keeps me moving. But I know it’s leaking out.

This body orbiting this star—  it takes what it needs, turns that fire into motion, into heat, into all the little things that keep this body alive. And sure, in return, it keeps the light inside, but it’s not innocent. It’s the thief and the jailor. It clings to the light like it’s afraid I might slip away, afraid I might not come back.

Sometimes, I do get away from this machine. Not all the way —  just enough to remind me there’s more out there. a tunnel where light bends itself into eternity. I’ve been there. I’ve seen the gears behind the gates, and I know: the light inside this body is the same light that illuminates the cosmos.

But the body always beckons to the light, until it returns. This mortal coil tightens, weaving me into the weight of breath and bone. I come back heavier, like gravity presses harder after you’ve touched something that doesn’t belong to this world. And every time, I leave a little piece of myself behind —  a fragment of light, spilled into the places I’ll never fully reach.

The truth? The fire’s running out. Every step I take, every laugh, every sigh — it costs me. The light doesn’t stay. It spills. Golden threads unraveling into the air, into the spaces I’ll never see. And maybe that’s the point. Maybe we’re supposed to burn down, leak what we can, thread ourselves into something bigger.

We’re human Dyson spheres, spinning around a sun we’ll never fully touch. Messy, imperfect machines. Burning, wasting, breaking. But that’s what living is, isn’t it? Burning what you’ve got, even knowing you’ll run out.

So I’ll keep burning. Even as the fire leaks, even as it breaks me down —  because the light was never mine to keep. Let it spill. Let it thread itself into the hum of all things, carried far beyond me.

-1/24/25

[fornaxter]

Project Stellaris

Art commission for Jackie Hiero on Twitter

[aikya-kat-44]

Feel free to send me asks about physics and space I want to talk about them