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Date of upload: Apr 25, 2024 ^^
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With all the possibilties for statites, lagites, etc., I'd think that a civilization living "on" a white dwarf could use also use the remnant as the core of a stellar engine. If your civilization is going to be hanging around the galaxy for a few orbits, you might as well add steering to your space yacht! (or terraforming + colonization barge)
It could be useful to add an inner side wall to a white dwarf bracelet. White dwarf stars generate cosmic rays, which in turn can result in cosmic ray spallation of cosmogenic, helium-3, lithium, beryllium and boron. The yield might be low, but protons absorbed by gasses like nitrogen, oxygen, and argon are protons that aren't hitting your infrastructure.
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@Isaac Arthur I just wanted to say congratulations to you and your wife on the anniversary of your marriage as well as the successes that you and your family have achieved. Thank you for also inspiring me, as a disabled combat veteran (former Air Force Special Warfare SR/ SOWT Recon Specialist), to keep focused on the things that I can still do in life, as opposed to what I no longer can do, and keeping a realistic, yet positive view on things yet to come. You and your content truly mean a lot to me, despite not knowing you personally.
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One problem with a glowing metal shell in a vacuum is that metal tends to sublime at elevated temperatures even if it isn't close to its melting point. Without an atmosphere we have nothing to counter that vapor pressure, which means that the degradation of the sphere will be that much more rapid. So the metal vapor will need to be continuously re-captured and re-applied to the shell not only on the outside but also on the inside.
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@oliviamaynard9372
2 weeks ago
"Most stars are younger than the universe." lol I am 99.8% that was a joke.
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