re: To harvest meaningfull amounts, your collectors would have to be huge

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ljk — 9/8/2005 7:17:35 PM (archived)

Maybe that is why there are so many KBOs scattered all over the place. They've all got alien solar cells on them.

Recall that Freeman Dyson's initial design for his Dyson Sphere (or Shell) was as a large collection of separate bodies surrounding a star, not one solid ball.

http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/MatrioshkaBrains/DSSatDLFiG.html

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An Infrared Hunt for Artificial Kuiper Belt Objects - ljk - 9/8/2005 4:23:43 PM
- Deep Impact shows Tempel I porous - or could it be hollow? - Robert Clark - 9/8/2005 9:21:27 PM
  - That raises the question... - alcaray - 9/8/2005 10:37:13 PM
  - Our first contact with an ETI - whoops! - ljk - 9/8/2005 9:26:26 PM
    - Who's that going "Knock Knock" on MY Comet? - Nick Hoffman - 9/9/2005 8:12:22 AM
- Harvest solar power in the KB? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/8/2005 4:51:04 PM
  - re: Harvest solar power in the KB? - ljk - 9/8/2005 5:10:21 PM
    - To harvest meaningfull amounts, your collectors would have to be huge - alcaray - 9/8/2005 6:08:51 PM
      - re: To harvest meaningfull amounts, your collectors would have to be huge - ljk - 9/8/2005 7:17:35 PM
        
        If you want to get warm, move closer to the fire, is my advice. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/8/2005 7:59:08 PM
        
        re: If you want to get warm, move closer to the fire, is my advice. - ljk - 9/8/2005 8:05:27 PM
        
        Well, if they asked for my advice that's what it would be - alcaray - 9/8/2005 10:48:57 PM
        
        re: Well, if they asked for my advice that's what it would be - ljk - 9/9/2005 1:10:43 PM
        
        re: Well, if they asked for my advice that's what it would be - Johannes - 9/9/2005 8:35:31 PM
        
        First I would determine if they tasted anything like fried chicken. - Scott Evil - 9/13/2005 3:38:48 PM
        
        re: First I would determine if they tasted anything like fried chicken. - LJK - 9/13/2005 4:03:25 PM
        
        Maybe most KBOs have inhabitants - ljk - 9/8/2005 7:42:01 PM
        
        SETI Politics - LJK - 9/9/2005 5:20:03 PM
        
        Letter: response to "SETI politics" - LJK - 9/12/2005 3:16:35 PM
        
        robotic probes vs people - Sawyer - 9/12/2005 4:57:42 PM

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