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17th Nov 2016

It is the year 2798, an extensive 200 year long building process has been completed for the Nebula Dyson Sphere. It can hold a total of 20 Billion people and is completely self sufficient.

dyson building ship sphere destructable destroyable metropolis space city detail

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MEOWS 19th Nov 2016

What about a thin one?
TheNik 18th Nov 2016

The central star definitely should be in the centre and it is its gravity providing integrity for the sphere. Note however that a /sphere/ is the least likely variant to be built. See other variants in mentioned Wikipedia article.
TheNik 18th Nov 2016

The dyson sphere needs to rotate in order to generate a constant acceleration of 1 g. Current studies however suggest, that there is not enough material in the entire solar system for a dyson sphere to be built (Source: See Wikipedia link below).
bigexplosion 18th Nov 2016

@Swiftwolf456, if you want the gravity of the planet Earth in the vacum of space, you simply either eccelerate at 9.8m/s/s, or have a rotaion plane of about the same (correct me if I'm wrong) speed, but you must be on the inside wall of the object you're spinning
Lansea 18th Nov 2016

I love the concept
DeusPayne 18th Nov 2016

btw it looks the way it does because it is scaled down
QuanTech 18th Nov 2016

can't w8 until we become a Type II civilization :)
ProteusKaiju 17th Nov 2016

A dyson sphere is actually sphere that surrounds a star that harvests its energy, even though I love the take you took on this
Swiftwolf456 17th Nov 2016

spheres like this don't actually need a star or source of gravity in the centre, they just need to spin, I forgot how fast, and I forgot the specifics. And they aren't really spheres, more like discs.
Self_Destruct 17th Nov 2016

My question is, how would everything not fall up? Would the mass and distance (aka the gravity) of that part have to exceed that of the sun?

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Dyson sphere within a nebula by DeusPayne

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