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Ten years is 3.1536E8 seconds which is 634 mirrors a second. Nearly all of those are in the final year. | Ten years is 3.1536E8 seconds which is 634 mirrors a second. Nearly all of those are in the final year. | ||
Before the final year a single railgun is enough with 30 launches a second. | Before the final year a single railgun is enough with 30 launches a second to escape velocity. The mirror will then tack to its right position. | ||
The orbit distance of a mirror around the sun is 2πr = | The orbit distance of a mirror around the sun is 2πr = 2.5E11m | ||
Solar orbit period = 70 days, speed in solar orbit = 41km/s | |||
Escape velocity of Mercury = 4.3km/s | |||
Revision as of 19:27, 5 January 2020
A mirror orbits the sun and reflects light to a receiver.
It has neighbours. They are close enough to message each other. They are an internet.
They all have the same distance from the sun.
A full swarm catching all the light of the sun would have an area of S = 4πr2
r=4E10m
so S = 2E22m2
and if each mirror is 1E62 then a full swarm has 2E16 mirrors which is 20 quadrillion mirrors. If they are overlapping circles then there's 30 quadrillion.
A 1% swarm at an orbit of 40 million km is 2E14 mirrors. 200 trillion mirrors.
Ten years is 3.1536E8 seconds which is 634 mirrors a second. Nearly all of those are in the final year.
Before the final year a single railgun is enough with 30 launches a second to escape velocity. The mirror will then tack to its right position.
The orbit distance of a mirror around the sun is 2πr = 2.5E11m
Solar orbit period = 70 days, speed in solar orbit = 41km/s
Escape velocity of Mercury = 4.3km/s