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[–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    While I agree, most people know tera- at this point. Most people probably do not know zetta- yet.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

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

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    how can women be expected to compete against the dyson sphere? it’s all over for us, smh 😔

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Your gf doesn't do that? Weird.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    So you’re into power exchange relationships? sup?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Hold up! Isn't a Dyson sphere pretty low maintenance once it's built?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I'll take the sphere

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

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

    Dyson sphere = non-trebuchet catapult

    Dyson ring = trebuchet

    Fact.

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