Humanity: Master fusion reactors or build a dyson sphere?

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The discussion centers on the future of energy, specifically comparing the feasibility of Dyson spheres versus fusion reactors. Participants express a belief that Dyson spheres could facilitate terraforming and enable humanity to become a multiplanetary species more efficiently. However, the conversation is deemed speculative and ultimately locked due to the lack of serious discourse on such futuristic concepts.

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What are are your thought on the future of energy on Earth? Personally, in the long term I believe that Dyson spheres would be more useful and allow us to terraform other planets and became a multiplanetary species much quicker and efficiently, but what are your thoughts?
 
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Dyson Spheres, terraforming other planets and being a "multiplanetary species" are ideas so far off in the future that they may as well be science fiction. So it isn't something we can discuss with amount of seriousness here. Thread locked.
 

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