Hum, so a sphere would not show up in normal light freqs but would show up in several others..
It would be black as a hole, but black body radiation, what is that? Why infared, since it if you find a way to convert heat to power, then you would not have to vent it off, but yes it would be a massive heat source but no visible light if you could not find a way to use the heat for power.. But how massive is a sphere, how much gravity would it exert? Would it not suck in some cause of the spheres mass or its not that much, I am trying to figure out how to do a sphere that is big enough, so that dwarf like creatures can do mining. Need to be deep enough so that normal mining does not expose the spheres inner surface? Dwarfs in a fantasy world, normally only go down how far? Earth quakes have to be artificial or what? Outer surface being hit, or shifting? What arthors would have written about the use of a Dyson Sphere? Niven, would he have written one, or what? Piper? Piper the father in many ways of the idea of drop ships, him and Heinlein that is? What else? Not a major jump from LSTs and Air Craft Carrier Task forces to Drop Ships and Mecha and like war machines? Mike ------------- Geez guys...that's what those REALLY BIG bike reflectors are for....either that or those nasty flourescent orange flags on a pole. Put on a couple of those....and "Mom" can see you from parsecs away! :p AV ---------- Michael Adams wrote: > Would a Dyson sphere look alot like a Black hole atleast in some ways? > > Mike > > No, not really. It wouldn't suck in surrounding matter like a black hole. Kiz -- http://www.kizandjenn.com http://www.kizandjenn.com/art/gallery ------------------ Not a black hole, but it would emit Black Body radiation... In the Infared range. Frank G. ------------------------- _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
