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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But it's in incomplete list. Without boobs, it isn't a fair comparison.

[–] Mannimarco@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Boobs are pretty neat

[–] Master@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

But no nipples

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don’t know like. Have you ever slept next to a woman? They generate about a Dyson spheres suns worth of heat.

[–] DarkDiamondK@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn, you got that model, mine is just subzero temp freezer, but it balances out since Im practically a nuclear reactor of heat

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

It is useful in winter.

I’m normally cold except if I’ve had a late takeaway or a drink, then I turn in to a furnace 🤣

[–] Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This clearly a lie. Their feet temperature are close to absolute zero

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The duality of woman

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Depends on the woman. My wife puts out more heat than a nuclear reactor.

[–] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago

That...that explains why they consider all environments to be immeasurably cold. If they're radiating all that heat, any exterior environment seems like 0 degrees Kelvin.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A trillion of an SI prefix will always be silly. Just use a bigger prefix!

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

While I agree, most people know tera- at this point. Most people probably do not know zetta- yet.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most of us aren't used to "terrawatts" though. Is that like one Earth worth of watts? One watt as measured on Earth? The definition of watt culturally accepted by Earthlings?

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

You wouldn't find a terawatt in everyday usage, but a terawatt-hour is pretty commonplace when talking about the energy usage of entire populations.

This Reuters article states US power demand will climb to "4,027 billion kWh in 2022." Yeah, just say 4 PWh. Or even 4,027 TWh. It's a little more easily digested.

It's already an incomprehensably high number. No matter which way you state it is going to fly over peoples heads.

And the entire electricity consumption of the planet is something like 25.5 petawatt-houts.

[–] QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

They say it like that because people are used to being billed in kWh so it gives them a reference.

[–] Interesting_Test_814@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago

I think theperson you're replying to was making a joke off the misspelling of "terrawatts" in OP.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Oh that's super interesting and I did not know that, but I was riffing off the double R in "terrawatt," instead of "terawatt."

Like "tera" describes an order of magnitude, but "terra" means "earth," as in "terra firma," "terra nova," or "terran."

So I guess you could say that 25.5 petawatt-hours = 25,500 terawatt-hours = 1 terrawatt-hour.

[–] zzzz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

And how're we supposed to learn when y'all keep dumbing shit down?

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

There's another way a girlfriend is like a Dyson sphere. I don't have a Dyson sphere.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

The size of your mother. ✔️ ❌

[–] girl@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

how can women be expected to compete against the dyson sphere? it’s all over for us, smh 😔

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your gf doesn't do that? Weird.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Is your girlfriend perchance a Dyson Sphere?

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

So you’re into power exchange relationships? sup?

[–] THEDAEMON@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I'll take the sphere

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Hold up! Isn't a Dyson sphere pretty low maintenance once it's built?

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's a misconception, it's the Dyson swarm that's high maintenance

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I doubt it. A structure like that would be an enourmous engineering project pummeled by solar radiation on the inside and space debris on the outside.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

I guess it would depend on the temperature resistance and how the power is transmitted. Even solar panels wear out, and the collection surfaces of a dyson sphere would be a lot higher temp. But with something that scale, I'd imagine it would be a ton of maintenance work even if was a tiny amount per area.

[–] schema@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean wouldn't you still have to maintain the electrics of a sun sized surface? I guess you could use its own power for maintenance robots...

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

All I know is that Picard's Enterprise found a long abandoned Dyson Sphere and it was still functional.

[–] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I would like to submit an analogy that accurately communicates how overrated Dyson spheres are:

Dyson sphere = non-trebuchet catapult

Dyson ring = trebuchet

Fact.