[jupp0r]

See Dyson Sphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

[chr15m]

Dyson's paper was literally written in jest.

[Banditoz]

What do you mean?

[moralestapia]

Yeah, that's the point ... it's stupid to believe humanity is capable of deploying that much infrastructure. We cannot do even 0.01% of it.

[tlb]

What do you think the limiting factor is? I don't see why we can't scale manufacturing of satellites up as far as we want. If we mine out a substantial fraction of the mass of the earth, we can go harvest asteroids or something.

[entropie]

But the factory ~~can~~must grow.