An extremely hard challenge

[Unamed]

The challenge is drumroll to build a dyson swarm

 

[Unamed]

It’s not impossible

 

[Unamed]

or even harder build a box that surrounds the sun

 

[TtTOtW]

You're wasting your time.

 

[TtTOtW]

It's been proven over and over it is not possible.

 

[Unamed]

It is if you have enough sattalights

 

[Unamed]

In a tight orbit

 

[Altaïr]

It is if you have enough sattalights

It depends on how much satellites you require and how close they have to be from the Sun. If having 6 satellites evenly dispatched at Mercury level is ok, then it certainly is doable. But if you expect people to send hundreds of satellites orbiting close to the Sun you can be pretty sure nobody will attempt it.

I suggest that you give a try at one of Blazer's challenge, the Icarus dive that consisted in getting as close to the Sun as possible, you'll see it's not that easy:
https://jmnet.one/sfs/forum/index.php?threads/icarus-dive.3005/

 

[Horus Lupercal]

or even harder build a box that surrounds the sun

A box. Around the Sun. Really?!

It’s not impossible

Go on then. If it's doable, build a dyson swarm around the Sun. I'll believe it when I see it.
Remember, a pre-requisite of setting a challenge here is that you're capable of doing it yourself. Negates two things.
1) bullshit impossible challenges
2) plagiarism.

 

[Pink]

It’s not impossible

Aaaand how do you know?

It is if you have enough sattalights

What's enough?

 

[TtTOtW]

Unamed. If you can surround the Sun with more than 1000 satellites on EXACTLY the same orbit, then I'll beat that. Until then, I'm not participating. And it must be at least 15m wide satellites (30 blocks). Please if you're gonna do it, do it right.

 

[Roger Jolly]

Spent way too much time making a nifty flower petal orbit system quite some time ago, think there’s 3 or 6 or 9(?) in very close and wide orbit and the rest in a tighter pattern;
Been thinking about sending in a battleship and making war on it

 

[Roger Jolly]

Unamed. If you can surround the Sun with more than 1000 satellites on EXACTLY the same orbit, then I'll beat that. Until then, I'm not participating. And it must be at least 15m wide satellites (30 blocks). Please if you're gonna do it, do it right.

Well that’s just nutz

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Unamed. If you can surround the Sun with more than 1000 satellites on EXACTLY the same orbit, then I'll beat that. Until then, I'm not participating. And it must be at least 15m wide satellites (30 blocks). Please if you're gonna do it, do it right.

Fuck, if he can do more than 10, I'll match it.

 

[TtTOtW]

Fuck, if he can do more than 10, I'll match it.

Well that’s just nutz

The Sun has a radius of 31500km. Then add 300km for the atmosphere. So, the tighest sustainable orbit will have a 199805292.7...m circumference. Divide that by 1000 30m wide satellites and you've blocked out 0.015% of the Sun's radiation.

I'm being NICE making the requirement that low.

 

[Danny Batten]

or even harder build a box that surrounds the sun

Thats physically impossible, due to when your craft gets longer than 10km the Hitbox fails.
the reason for this is SFS has a physics radius of 5km from the center of your craft, get any furth than that and it has no Hitbox

 

[Pink]

Thats physically impossible, due to when your craft gets longer than 10km the Hitbox fails.
the reason for this is SFS has a physics radius of 5km from the center of your craft, get any furth than that and it has no Hitbox

And Danny proved it by doing it! ^^

 

[Roger Jolly]

The Sun has a radius of 31500km. Then add 300km for the atmosphere. So, the tighest sustainable orbit will have a 199805292.7...m circumference. Divide that by 1000 30m wide satellites and you've blocked out 0.015% of the Sun's radiation.

I'm being NICE making the requirement that low.

The Earth is not small after all and the Sun is unimaginable hugeness, I believe both Niven and Dyson expressed the general absurdity of this engineering project, 0.015% easier than terraforming Jupiter

 

[In_thrust_we_trust]

challenge accepted I'll just make a bigbusty rocket with infinite fuel only and a Fuck to of rockets

 

[In_thrust_we_trust]

Before you say anything they said nothing about cheats unless the thread rules say so then I'll won't use it. Yea he never stated that infinite fuel was a require ment soooo! See y'all in 2120

 

[In_thrust_we_trust]

I have up

 

[Roger Jolly]

Before you say anything they said nothing about cheats unless the thread rules say so then I'll won't use it. Yea he never stated that infinite fuel was a require ment soooo! See y'all in 2120

If you’re going for 1000 sats, I’d say inf fuel away...
But maybe try one load with fuel on, see the max# of whatever sat design you create can get there in a sensible rocket

 

[Flexilis Anatis]

I believe both Niven and Dyson expressed the general absurdity of this engineering project,

Even with a structure like Niven’s Ringworld (essentially a ribbon surrounding the sun, gives many of the benefits of a Dyson spere while cutting down on the size considerably.) it would take many solar systems worth of resources to even build the basic framework, much less add the necessary amenities such as solar panels (why else would you want a ring around the sun?) and the structures to keep the inside face cool.

 

[TtTOtW]

View attachment 34493 challenge accepted I'll just make a bigbusty rocket with infinite fuel only and a Fuck to of rockets

I'd love to see how far you get. Just for the record, 6660176 satellites will surround the Sun at exactly the edge of the Sun's 300km atmosphere. But keep your apoapsis (apohelion) and periapsis (perihelion) below 310km on all the satellites and I'll take it as close enough. Remember the satellites must be 30m wide (60 blocks)

 

[DingoAteMyKids]

The challenge is drumroll to build a dyson swarm

I already made that once with about 100 satellites, Im going for the box around the sun, Im not making a sphere tho because that's almost impossible