Phat Stax
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Phat Stax
@PopPhatStax
High tech, low life






The Valkyrie design requires 100 tons of antimatter to reach 0.2c (theoretically it can reach 0.92c, but this requires 2200 tons of antimatter). A single 100 km ring accelerator, per Robert Forward's original suggestion, would produce 1 g/day. At that rate, it would take about 270,000 years to fill up the tanks for one (still pretty slow) interstellar crossing. If you wanted to launch one of these ships every year, you'd need 270,000 accelerators. Each array, 100 km on a side, collects 10 TW; an antimatter production system capable of generating 100 tons/year would therefore require about 2.7x10^18 W, and have a surface area of around 2.7 billion square kilometres (about 5x the Earth's surface area) if built at 1 AU. That's still only 0.0000007% of the solar luminosity, 3.8x10^26 W. If a Kardashev II diverted 100% of the Sun's power output to antimatter production, it could manufacture around 14 billion tons of antimatter a year, enough to keep a fleet a several million Valkyries zipping between the stars at 0.92c. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…



@teortaxesTex What? Is the post really true? Didn't someone tell him it was just a Kimi 2.5 wrapper?


This view, know as computational functionalism, is taken as an obvious true by a large portion of the ML and CS communities But it has been progressively rejected by most people that actually study consciousness References below 👇🏽




















