How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- If humans want to expand into space, it will take us incredible amounts of energy. How do we do that? Easy: we will just use the sun’s energy by realizing the most ambitious construction project in history. This is how it works.
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I'm in love with space stuff :)
yeet
Why is there only so little likes
Are you a scientist.also why arent we creating the railgun thingy now?
i like the type of style you did with the video
I think Kurzgesagt are a group of time travelers from the future and they've been telling us how to survive.
Issac Arthur.
You’re welcome 😉
Me too man, me too.
basically yeah
Laura Holmes nope, it’s simply logic.
still he gets sponsored XD
"Where is Mercury?"
"Gone. Reduced to mirrors."
lol good comment
psychological torture
Lol
Reduced to Dyson sphere
what if... we just use the actual element Mercury as mirrors?
We were born just in time to speculate whether or not humanity can achieve this level of technology
Yeah
Ye
Damn, you’re here too?
4 th reply
and at a time where twitter exists
Great tutorial! Been having trouble building these recently. I think ive got the hang of it now
Lol
lmfao
That's why the power bill dropped okay thanks bro
When I was building one at home, I had an issue with transporting the energy produced over long distances. No need to worry, this video was a great tutorial explaining how mirrors could be used to reflect the sun light to the collectors. It is a great school project. I fully recommend it. lol
Wow I just suck at building one than. Got a D for the project. I was able to explain the process but I was not being 247% efficient with my power.
"did you do it?"
"Yes"
"What did it cost?"
"Mercury"
Earth: Mercury may die, but it's a sacrifice... _I_ am willing to make.
WHAT DID YOU DO TO MERCURY
I come back to this video sometimes just for this comment
RIP mercury
Sometimes Kurzgesagt make the dumbest videos like this one . No civilization would go to the trouble of making a dyson sphere when you can just make a computer to simulate the universe and the simulated occupants of said universe would never grow old , be sick or die ...that is why we don't detect Aliens because they shed biology long ago .
Sounds easy
I'll help out this weekend
bro i dont think Dyson is hiring rn
skinna I got my resume ready just in case
@@skinna9126 Damn, imagine if Dyson actually helped create a Dyson sphere. I mean, they're making a car, and no one expected that.
ahh gees...this weekend?? i got this.....thing.....i cant make it
I’m in! My father is hitting up Venus tho, I’ll see if I can stop by Mercury to set my bag down
"Hey Grandma. What happened to the 8th planet?"
"We strip mined it out of existence"
Gone reduce to atom
2809JK lol
Gone, Reduced to atoms
re
krystian k how?
the suns gravity was too weak on it?
Hi guys! I am from the year 5024 and this tutorial helped me build the dyson sphere. It works
hi hope my descendant see my comment here
Hi oxydra from 3000 years in the future!
Hey, did my indie animation ever become a real thing??? Please tell me! I’m gonna start animating soon!
Wow! Can’t believe it only took us 3000 years to figure it out! What’s Humanity going for next?
WHAT THE(_______ ____)
"If we don't destroy ourselves.."
gotta love the honesty
That one hit where it hurts.
@@sarvashaktimaan7106 XD
That's where the video stops. We all know that's gonna happen :D
Yes, if we don't commit such world war iii
HandMade By Holly I just herd it when I looked at this
“Grandpa! We learned about all 7 planets today!”
*Me on the verge of tears* “Good for you grandson.”
We should promote Pluto so we still have 8 planets
@@BlueEngland sadly pluto does not pass the test of becoming a planet
@@cosmichorizon3273 then let’s add mass to it lmao
@@CosmicNexus_ haha asteriod go boom, oh look now Pluto has a larger mass and it's big enough to be a planet instead of a dwarf!
@@CosmicNexus_ smart boy, but we’ll need to be a type two civilization to do that. So lets wait for a hundred thousand years for that,hell maybe a million due to politicians
The animation on this video was absolutely amazing.
When is it not?
It's always like that are you new to the channel?
@@hamza-chaudhry I think he's talking about this specific video. I've been watching for 2 years and as far as I remember the animations on this one were the best of all the videos I've seen
Vuk Vidanovic well if you've been watching since the beginning you'd know how much they have to spend on animation and because they have a bigger budget now, the animation is also better. It seems like you have not been watching since the beginning.
Thanks! Finally a useful and fun DIY project. Power bills have been getting more expensive lately and this seems like a perfect solution.
thanks for the tutorial ill definitely use this
Lol...
Elon musk watching this.........
I love how they presented it like a civilization strategy game. I would love it if they made one, with most of their scientific teachings as occurences in the game, like after getting enough resources you could build a dyson swarm, etc. Kinda like Spore.
Check out Dyson Sphere Program. It's pretty much this video as an automation game.
not the same but in stellaris you can build a dyson sphere and do much more, its a fun game
@@ardasoydan9394 matter decompressor + foundry ecum = fleets for days
It could be a game based on how fast we can destroy the given universe(s) starting as life forms comparable to bacterias
Stellaris
**teleports behind Mercury**
Earth: Nothing personal, kid.
Hahaha
Hehe
It’s just orbit mate.
FrizzleLamb ahahahahaha
*nothing personnel
Mercury: "I'm scared of nothing."
"But that thing..."
*Dyson Sphere*
*_"It scares me."_*
1 like and no comments? Not anymore
Mighty impressive that Mercury wouldn't be afraid of the sun... but the Dyson Sphere?
It better be praying.
2 comments now.
I love how the video is portrayed as some kind of town creator game. XD
Awfully similar to spore
Or your generic clicker tycoon
There were some references to starcaft II too!
that's the point but ok
Go check out Factorio. See you in a few months. :D
Finally, the instructions I need to get building!
Why earth still dont have a rail gun space launcher?
And is anyone have a name for this?
electromagnetic rail gun space launcher is too long for write
@@benlin7426 I'm all over 😎
satellite slide
@@sahinyasar9119 probably because our atmosphere is too thick and the speed required to launch things would burn them up I guess
@@sahinyasar9119 1. earth gravity is stronger than mercury
2. The atmosphere is also thicker
3. Launching stuff to space with such a scheme would take a crazy high starting velocity since the acceleration is lost the moment the ship left the gun.
4. it would take a really long rail gun or large amount of energy to achieve such starting velocity, not to mention how the ship will survive such velocity
That was truly stellar episode! Great job :)
I was expecting this comment
Oh man, your official channel in the wild! Your Santa Claus machine video was great, thanks for all the great content you've provided over the years.
Hahah a stellaris joke ;)
I love your channel man.
Am I the only one who would love a cooperation between the two?
When I was a little boy and I learned about solar power I often would think about how pointless it was to have solar collectors on the ground when we could just have them in space! Even better if we could have them around the sun itself! I never had a word for describing this until I was in high school when I came across the idea of Dyson spheres I got disappointed it wasn’t an original idea but also super happy someone else thought of it too and became super curious about far-future technologies ever since! Dyson spheres are my favorite!
I mean, I think it would still be an original idea, because you came up with it on your own. Sure, somebody came up with it before you, but you weren’t copying them, you just happened to have the same idea.
@Draconicfish2679
Agreed, as the saying goes. Great minds, think alike.
Mars: Hey Earth, have you seen Mercury? I didn't see him in his last orbit.
Earth: What about Mercury? Oh he's just... orbiting a bit closer...
😅
🐒
Underrated comment.
I think harvesting asteroids would be probably better, but then again, Mercury has an immense, undisputed "advantage" in terms of proximity.
@@Wasserkaktus Proximity and ease of access, mining astroids would require many different calculations each time and are much harder to her considering they even come close enough
Kurzgesagt : Do you wanna know how to build a Dyson Sphere?
Me, a teenager, eating boiled potatoes with ketchup and Mountain Dew at 3am : Yes, I do.
I'm supposed to be doing gcse chemistry work, so I guess I'm not too off topic, right?
I can smell a potential Jojo reference
@@bevvy.bee9 Get the fuck off my lawn.
You boiled potatoes at 3am
@@Dockboy-ie4yu Boiled them twice, because I was stupid enough to cut them partially raw, and had to boil them AGAIN.
“Our attention is too often focused on short-term political gains and conflicts that will not matter in the long run” this one hits hard, when we know how much there’s to explore but instead of improving we just keep fighting ourselves
Blame the power hungry and greedy. They desire nothing but their own advancement at the expense of other people and progress.
Ah, but you see, that competition is EXACTLY what will bring about ALL of the necessary technology to do this.
A competition, if not a space war of shattering mirrors, would be behind this. Ultimately, each nation would have portions of the Dyson Swarm and try to dominate the others' mirrors.
This is superior to a One World Government, for two reasons.
1. A true NWO, where all the earth is under one body, would be totalitarian and its politicians would be permanently unaccountable simply because of the sheer size of the earth and its population. It is not possible, and never will be possible, to subjugate eight billion souls (let alone trillions) under one global polity without enslaving them. This is doubly so if man wanted to use a Dyson Swarm as one unit instead of a divided access among squabbling nations.
2. For the world to end, the earth will either unite and THE Antichrist will take charge eventually, or THE Antichrist will do the uniting.
Once the earth is united, man's temporal existence will be ticking down to the end of all things.
@@spectralassassin6030
You think the unification lfthe earth under one polity would be better? No, of course not.
A civilization of that side would have no choice but to be totalitarian.
@@TurtleShroom3 Many governments we have in the world today could actually work if not for a few people being pieces of shit that stomp on those they believe beneath them. That's what I'm saying.
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Kalki Avatar (Murtaza) 11th satguru 13th imam cousin of Moula mahdhi a.s. 12th imam (muhammad) 😎
Prophet Moula mahdhi is raja shashidhuvj (the mighty one) born less then 1200 years ago 😎
Prophet Moula Isa a.s. will kill dajjal cause dajjal is going to kill Kalki Avatar 😏
Kalki Avatar will follow orders from 2 religious king Moula mahdhi a.s. and Moula Isa a.s. 😎
Kalki Avatar going to have 2 swords and ring of moula sulaiman a.s. and staff of moula musa a.s. (iron rod) Staff of moula musa a.s. is like omintrix can transform into anything and can transform others into anything And stone in the ring of moula sulaiman a.s. is also known as kastav mani and it's more powerful than all 6 infinite stones combined 😇
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This staff will transforms into white horses with wings,weapons,iron-man,cloud etc or can do imagination into reality 😎
*Ratn sru sword of lord Adam (miri)😇
*Ratn varu (zulfakar) sword of Moula Ali (piri) 😇
miri piri 😇
Kalki Ironman after 2026 😎
Satyug (sunrise from West) 2038 😏
Sambal is hospital 😏
Gzwa e hind 2029 😎
Khalistan and Azad Kashmir after 2026 by Ironman 😎
99% Hadith u heard is not about imam Mahdi it’s about Kalki avatar (the main character) that person momin vs dajjal prove me wrong if u can 😏😏
"if you're like us and enjoy using the power of science to determine absurd ways to destroy stuff you might want to hear how you can come up with something like that yourself" truly awesome quote
Sexy...🗿🗿
these animations must take ages. they have such high detail and the fps is at least 60fps. amazing. thumbs up
yes, they take 1200+ hours to make 1 video
@@FlowiYT yes
@@FlowiYT yea
@@FlowiYT yessir
@@FlowiYT mhm
Now I have a huge desire to play a space themed strategy/resource management game.
EDIT: 3 Years later and this comment is still getting replies haha. I've played DSP and it's great.
Stellaris 😎
@@nikolaia.9573 I always wanted to try Stellaris but that game looks way too complicated. So many DLCs are out by now I'm scared I'd be completely lost at this point if I started now. Every time I started a 'gameplay' on UA-cam to see what's it about I was overwhelmed by the amount of things the game offers.
@@uros.u.novakovic Try it, its amazing. Factorio is also good.
Star trek online XD
Try Terraforming Mars, a game which is a boardgame that has a digital version, and it's about... well... terraforming mars
Thanks man I was really struggling on how you build a Dyson sphere
step #14,540,202 was a really tough one
Tamarak maybe a polar orbit?
As a time traveler, this video is absolutely correct. Very impressive
No
@@TarrareyoutubeOFyes
Have mars and venus been terraformed
@@mikemoore9092 Eh, sort of. We destroyed them for natural resources and transfered them to habitable planets
how can I time travel?:)
imagine if humans in the future try to build a dyson sphere, the sunspots on the Sun combine to form the words:
“You need the *Utopia DLC* in order to perform this action.”
Wait for the steam sale it's all good
Lol a Stellaris Player .............They have to unlock the megastructure perk too
Earth: Buys DLC with Jupiter’s credit card
**dies**
Game is copyright EA
Emily Hart assuming you built 1 each second, it would take you more than 31,709,791,983,764,586,496 years.
EDIT: You mentioned _10_ octillion instead of 1, so the real answer is 3.17097919837645832e+20 years.
You ever realize how amazing a kurzgesagt style survival game would be
Civilisation type game or maybe space agency type game
I thought you were talking about if you were the ducks.
play stellaris
uhhh.. play Stellaris bro
@@MarcosVinicius-hs6cs my man
This is seriously like one of my favorite videos ever.
i think i have watched it like 5 times now
WaffuxX I’ve shared it with pretty much everyone I know.
@@abe10alpha Same, i even watched it with the parents of my girlfriend haha
WaffuxX ummmmmm
@@waffuxx2770 What about 50 times ! I did
I just want to thank your entire team for making informative and entertaining videos. I truly support your mission.
Congratulations! The editing skill of your team chnged from level "Master" to level "Godlike".
No seriously. The animations were already perfect and beautiful. But this now is a whole new dimension. I thought long ago that it can't get better but yet, I am proven wrong.
Also, I really like the idea of video game mechanics to show off such topics. It's the combination of two of my favourite things. Gaming and science.
What I also want to say: I know it is not necessary in times where the internet is aviable everywhere. But it would be really nice if there would be an Bluray with the Kurzgesagt videos in English and German :D
Luca Dario Bützberger
Master to challenger 🙃
Ha, a whole new dimension, literally! I’m sure there have been little instances of 3D in there before but that flyby blew me away
Don´t forget subtitles😉.
Yep, before it was like in fortnite season 6 and now it’s like season 20 of the animations. Sooo good. It’s making me happy in every moment the view changes
i can imagine building the dyson sphere would be much easier than resolving conflicts we have right now.
What technological limitations can you think of that prevents us from creating some type of partial Dyson swarm from mining with robots mercury and launching satellites/collectors to beam down energy and accelerate the process?
@@sw1tch327 The abysmal efficiency, recyclability, and maintenance of solar panels and the difficulties we would also have with capacity when it comes to storing that power.
On the one side. We might not need huge capacity if we can solve the problems with Solar energy. Solar Panels lose efficiency as they heat up and their efficiency is rather shit to begin with. But if we could develop solar technology that would allow us to control how much energy we take-in, whenever we need it. Then we wouldn't need to have an incredibly advanced energy infrastructure.
That said. Without that advancement. We need a good way to direct as much solar energy into the energy grid for storage for when it's needed. Batteries are essentially already at their best efficiency that we can actually get them. There's pretty much a chemical limit. So we can't just make a super-grid of batteries. They're expensive, volatile, inefficient for our purpose etc.
Super capacitors have the problem of having even less efficiency than batteries but they can output charge much faster. Not really fit for purpose.
Perhaps we'd find ways to use any excess energy that we harvest when it's not needed and pump it into a mechanical system that would allow us to convert later on.
I'm spitballing here but yeah. There's a boatload of issues with just receiving the energy. Let alone setting up the infrastructure that builds the thing.
@@Unethical.FandubsGames Well if you watched the video it covered that when it said to use mirrors. With that much power we can use kugleblitz batteries (maybe). And we can just not store whatever energy we don't need and use what we can and then we have a very high demand for energy storage
Honestly, most people would rather focus on space travel than current problems because it's easier and more interesting. There's a reason there are hundreds of sci-fi shows but none about feeding the homeless.
@@sw1tch327 sorry to necro here, but my concert is he said mirrors to direct to a place. If that place is on earth then we are going to fry the earth before the end. Even if we dont, if the mirrors have a glitch that much energy focused in one place could demolish any city (magnifying glass and ant). So we focus on an object in orbit, how do we get that energy here? We don't have a way to efficiently transmit energy across space. Right now the only way they can think of is lasers, and again with that much energy a bad actor could demolish a city. There is also a massive amount of energy lost to the atmosphere and then again with solar. The mirrors have to be able to direct in unison to a point. How are we going to do that? Not to mention it has to get into orbit, but the mirrors will act as solar sails. If we use the force of those to keep it in orbit then we run into the issue of sun spots. Then how do we rotate the mirrors to remain focused on earth? Can't be gas we would run out on the mirrors before long. Maybe some gyroscope, but we would have to have billions of satellites working in unison
Whoever does the animation for these videos definitely deserves a raise
Definitely a team.
I like how those are very clearly Nebulon-B's in the space bits
He doesn't deserve a raise..
Because then who would make the animations..?
XD
@@caredits5305 Getting a raise means getting paid more, not promoted into a new position.
Played it through already! Was big fun and still is. But my Dyson Swarm was a bit short-lived and the solar sails vanished after approx. 30 Minutes. So I used them to create a sphere.
Thank god, I have the resources of not only a planet but a whole galaxy to exploit.
But the Dark Fog seems pretty interested in my doing as well... Nasty little buggers.
Amen brother, keeping the swarm off my resource outposts gets annoying. I am currently constructing a HUGE Dyson sphere around a type O star (blue super giant) I got the frame in place but making and launching the millions and millions of mirrors are going to take forever.
"not some of it, ALL OF IT!"
thats the most human statement in existence
The most human statement is "get the other humans"
@@gayfroggo that to
XD
@@lasttarrasque6223 *too
OMG I'm dying
It’s almost as is Mercury was placed there on purpose, it’s so perfect…
Coincidence? I think not.
Yeah great fought so we can become a 1.9 civilization in the next few hundred years
What do I mean by a type civilization well on the kardashev scale you can go from 1 to 4 type 1 civilization's control their whole planet type II civilization control there star and their whole planetary system type 3 civilization control their whole galaxy and all of its black holes except the super massive black hole at the center Type 4 civilization can control multiple galaxies some scientists think there are type 5 civilization's that control galaxy clusters or superclusters or their whole Cosmic backyard ultimately there might be a type Omega civilization that controls the whole universe and possibly this type of civilization might be the creators of this universe for reasons beyond our own comprehension maybe they were bored this experiment has been telling us interesting things it's what we think of civilizations is sort of correct there Arno civilizations of type 3 and Beyond near the Milky Way and this is something pretty interesting knowledge that you can chew on if you read this whole thing so you got a little bit smarter from reading this reply
@@AlexanderPR2 okay but why don't you look at my replies
spooky
I like how the whole video was animated like a civilization building game.
if this was an actual game i would 100% play it
@@darcyfitzgerald1441 stellaris is pretty much like this
oh looks its you again
yup they made it look so charming in a very creative and appealing way!
ERROR : Dyson Sphere requires : [DYSON SPHERE]
I watched this video to learn about ways we could obtain energy in the future and it introduced me to this channel, I haven’t stopped watching it
theoretical physicists: its not just possible, its easy
engineers: am i a joke to you
Maybe building it is easy but you have to safe the energy you can just put it into a power grid
Wee need Robotic engineers
Those poor designers
Getting the attention of big companies for funding megastructures. That is the hardest part
Saving resources from being wasted on bombs that the higher ups use to destroy eachother
For anyone saying there should be a game like this, there literally already is, it's called Dyson Sphere Program and it's amazing
Underrated comment.
Such a brilliant game :)
Yea but can you do black hole bombs and stuff
.
Wow it's only 2MB
That's so cool for how big it is
Earth giving a speech to all the planets
"some of you may die, (eyes mercury) but that's a risk im willing to take"
maybe only half of mercury will die
@@supernova5434 hoping for the best👍💯
Mercury:
*shitshitshitshit*
Destiny 2 intensifies
Z_THETA_Z ({_Z_}NoobOid) you play destiny too?
Thanks for this quick tutorial. I'm excited to get started with this fun project.
4:00 Seriously you guys always have some really beautiful graphics but the animation and attention to detail on those solar panels is absolutely breath-taking and incredible. Great job guys! :
It is surely well animated but I don't think that scene require much effort. It is essentially just copy pasting.
@@rinku3332 Still as steve said, getting the perspective animation to be that good is really hard
*Don't know about y'all but I really need a game made by kurzgesagt with that type of stunning animation*
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I too
Y'all
y e s. g i m m e
I think they have a skill share course. Some game designers should learn from that and create one
Only DIY channel i like to watch
DIY?
DIY?
More of science xD
You are god damn right. Let's make a DIY Dyson Sphere
@@zombiechibixd r/wooosh
kebabımız bilimdemi severdi?
@@zombiechibixd r/whooosh
These videos just make me wish humanity would stop bickering amongst itself and go do something really cool in space.
You guys should seriously make a video about ring worlds
Halo!
xXx_spaghettilord420_xXx why would I read a book about it when I can just watch a video from the best youtube channel in our star cluster?
@@SolarFlairYT why not both?
Halo speaks about ringworld, but in the books, it's speak about dyson sphere, ringworld, etc...
@@boyishgoyish9613 have none of you guys heard of the novels Ringworld... older and better than halo.
the animation at 4:00 is incredible
That really trippy
Ikr
I imagine they used 3d animation on that part. It's way too smooth otherwise.
if it was drawn by hand it would be insane but they probably used 3d models.
Do you mean the animation from 0:00 to 9:23?
How to build a Dyson swarm.
First, you're gonna need a planet you don't want...
Or a whole bunch of asteroids.
We just want earth, and probably mars
@@ExEBoss Nope. Mercury is many orders of magnitude more massive than all the astroids in the solar system. There isn't enough astroids to make a full Dyson swarm, and they're too far away regardless. Mercury really is the best solution.
@@bukanchannel8365 ya know that jupiter and saturne protect us from stray asteroids
> Be Mercury
> Sweat profusely
I refuse to believe this majestic video, which I saw when released, is 5 years old. I miss 2019 so much, and I wish that this world was as good as Kurzgesagt had said we should have tried to make.
Freeman Dyson, 1923 - 2020
A complete madlad who dared to dream the impossible
R.I.P
RIP
RIP
F
Rip
7:03 "It's such a simple process."
*whoa whoa whoa hold it right there buddy*
*brb gonna build a dyson sphere in my backyard*
@@James-le8gd just wait until the redditors come to this comment section. Get ready for your notifications to break because of the amount of R/woosh replies.
@@thegoose1005 We can only wait...
@Oriana Shi
He meant "simple [to understand]"
I think they need money to make it
(Sr, my english so bad)
I wish I could live long enough to see humans build a dyson sphere
Maybe you will?
That doesn't seem like a good idea
Immortality I mean it isn't a good idea
So did a lot of the creatures building the dyson sphere in the vid.... *splat*
Too late to explore the earth; too early to explore space; just in time to fix all of the problems
Truly loved this episode!
More on how we might build mega structures please!
This infographic should honestly be an actual game, plz make it
G809 link it please i want it
G809 so it is stellaris
You can try Spore, it’s similar
Yasssssss
I want a mostly scientifically accurate version of stellaris, with ecm, hunter killer drones, newtonian motion within solar systems, megastructures, etc
I can just imagine people protesting the Dyson Structure to save mercury lmao
impossible... how does he speak the future
I legit saw a comment complaining that removing Mercury would "fuck up astrology and mess up our star signs and zodiac readings"
I came from the future just to let you know you are completely right. But they were out voted and it is very similar to this. But that really old show Star Trek is a very good representation of what we do in the 24th century.
@@Dannybythebanana ahh yes The zodiac readings definitely rely on mercury
lmao
Yay no talks about apocalypse xD
That's what I was thinking
is it happening near future?
It is the Apocalypse for Astronomers
You could easily hijack a dyson sphere to burn any planet to a crisp.
Just saying ;)
The movie? Cause the sun goes dark?
this is possibly my favorite video on the internet. I keep coming back to watch it again. it's like a fairytale for the future
Me too. Something about it keeps me coming back every few years to watch it again.
Because it is a fairy tale. "Oh,let's destroy all nations and history,and embrace global Bolshevism because of some utopian idea because that works out well every time"
Can we give props to the editor of this video, it was clean af👌🏼
100%
Humans: Exist
Poor Mercury: Why do I hear boss music
I think you mean "Metal-rich Mercury" B)
Looks like they need some... freedom :)
We will miss you mercury
@@franky8340 the planet or the element
It's just Mercury, no one's gonna realize it's gone if they don't get told
I always love watching these videos to just imagine the stuff humanity could do if we ever got our shit together
I personally watch it to zone out and forget about all my shit :)
no, no hes got a point
@@mony8935 Who tf vents in a UA-cam comment section
@@sundaysyndrome_ who tf told you he was venting
One big step would be abandoning our bodies and virtually uploading our minds/conscience into new personal vessels which could hypothetically grant us near immortality, and could do other things like link all minds to a central network which would allow us to grab any piece of information we would ever need, without ever having to "memorize" it. The potential is almost limitless.
I want a Kurzgesagt game about developing humanity from the beginning of history up to stuff like creating a Dyson swarm, terraforming Mars and Venus, and creating a stellar engine, and even beyond!
And it should be styled just like this
Agreed
The title makes it seem like a DIY guide
@J H Elon musk
J H Elon Musk
well it is, it will be very useful for my interstellar science fair project, wish me luck.
Kryssie Mango good luck!!
wow im the 100 like
"We've just hit you with a lot of wild claims and crazy concepts."
That's putting it mildly.
This is why I love kurzgesagt
As do i
@@yellowstarproductions6743 as does your mum
Explaining a Megastructure like a Dyson Sphere using game mechanics is brilliant and fun to watch. Also I don't know about you but I feel like the animation on this video is really stepped it up a notch. Sorry if my english is bad :P
I was thinking its explained game like too
Their animation gets better for each video.
Your English is great! Don’t worry
You noticed that too huh? I was particularly impressed with literally everything in this episode. As if every aspect was cranked up to 11. Even the creativity of using game explanations was perfect.
TierZoo is another channel that makes videos in the same vein. Biology/Zoology as though Life was an MMO, pretty great videos.
thanks for the tut. it worked for me! 10/10 explanation! :D
Can you make a video about terraforming please ?
Hell yes! Terraforming indeed.
There is a terraforming moon video on this channel
We can't even get rid of the excess CO2 in our own planet, think we are a long way from terraforming.
Möbius strip?
@@Caedus696 you can get rid of it, we are just making more than we can dispose of
Kurzgezagt: Milk is complicated
Also Kurzgezagt: Building a Dyson Sphere is easy!
Also kursegast : terraforming Venus is easy
Better word might be simple
Yeah, but have you SEEN milk though? WHat the hell even is that stuff! I say we add a type 4 civilization and the criteria for the is to understand and harness the true power of... M I L K
Why we don’t put solar panels on mercury instead of destroying mercury to build dyson sphere
@@secretunknown2782 Because solar panels are very short-lived compared to the timespan it will take us to harnes all the energy needed for interstellar space travel. Solar panels are not as efficient as we think :) They're still heaps better than fossil fuels at not destroying our planet, but it's still not good enough for very, very big energy generation. I've got my sights set on nuclear fusion, but that needs to be properly funded and isn't really at the moment.
"MOM, PHINEAS AND PHERB ARE SENDING GIANT MIRRORS TO THE SUN!"
Lol
and tommorow everybody goes to proxima centauri
But where is Perry.
@@lunaticranger6532 Meanwhile, Perry the Platypus is off trying to stop Dr. Doofenschmirtz from siphoning the solar energy to power his inators so he never has to go to the store to buy batteries ever again. Mua-ha-ha-ha.
underrated comment
Mercury: they're behind me, aren't they?
Earth:Hee hee
I don't know if you guys are gonna read this, but I've been watching Kurzgesagt for quite a while now and I just wanted to sincerely thank you, the entire Kurzgesagt team, for all the efforts you put into these videos! The animation quality is off the charts! Keep up the good work guys!
Have you seen their first video tho?
I am watching them since 1st video but no one cares😅
Super agree 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
@@progamefixers ah, i see you are the OG viewer as well
Agreed! Though, the "like" killed your compliment a bit :( . Like, you know what I like mean? Like, nice comment regardless... I liked it....
04:07 is probably the coolest visual Kurzgesagt ever did
Lanura I’m not liking it because it’s at 69 likes
Yeah
Honeybees: It's free real estate
I agree
The 1% sun energy was super satisfying as well
this channel is so useful for me as a sci-fi screenwriter. i get so many ideas watching your theories and thought experiments, thank you so much for putting all of this knowledge together!!!
Watch Isaac Arthur, he goes into way more detail on way more topics
The stellar engine video, itself, brings about a whole slew of sci-fi potentials in the imaginations delight. Have with the writing. Appreciation into your steps. God Bless, John German.
4:47 "humans are expensive to keep alive, and are very vulnerable to the environment"
True
I really want a Kurzgegagt “build a Dyson sphere” video game
Me Too It Would Be *GREAT*
ok.
@@kurzgesagt That would be nice!
@@kurzgesagt I'm gonna write a sci-fi horror comic book series that will have dyson spheres, wormholes, and strange planets. I'm sure you'll love it! I hope I'll be setting a new standard for sci-fi.
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell lol😂😂😂
I was looking for vacuum cleaning product reviews. Now I am a astrophysicist.
Really?🤣
Lol bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣
D3ad!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
@@camkiranratna bro!!!!! you have the same name as my dad. Are you my father??? 😲😲😮
At the start: "But building it won't be easy"
At the end: "This is not just possible, but easy"
Me: *"So, which is it? Easy or not easy?"*
Kurzgesagt : *"I'm On Both Side So That I Will Always On Top"*
Yes
Starts off hard, gets easier with time once you build up space infrastructure and technology developes.
Both, at the start hard, by the end easy 😄
easy'nt
For the oversimplified animation style, the part between 3:55 and 4:12 was actually damn impressive.
I can imagine in billions of years time if we are still around there will be a 5 minute tutorial on how top build one of these.
More like 5 million years tutorial
It's the ultimate DIY project
@@roninalpha9424 maybe we will have godlike powers and everybody will be like awwww this kid just built his first diy dyson sphere. How cute, let's hang it on the wall. Don't forget to do it carefully, or the star system will collapse.
life hacks, how to harvest a galaxies energy for your self in 6 easy steps.
@@georgeousthegorgeous wouldnt people need a lot of resources to build that? if people only main goal is to build a dyson sphere or stellar engine then it will be easier to gather a huge amount of resources
the music and the animations are way too satisfying
Yeah
If there is a strategy game like this i would definitely buy it!
Ikr
this was a great tutorial, worked perfectly
One of the first legit tutorials
worked for me too!
😳
damm it worked for you maybe i did it wrong
Omg it actually works!! Now I don't have to pay electricity tax anymore
This really puts into perspective how much humanity could achieve if only we worked together.
Mercury: *Exists.*
Earth: “Hippity hoppity, you’re now my property.”
Haha nice!
Oh, HELL NO!
I love this phrase 😂😂
There’s no one else to claim it so ... I guess it’s ours
MALEK001 001
h o w
Mercury: exists
Earth: I diagnose you with dead
Earths phrase was pretty funny
Mercury: exists.
Earth: only you can prevent, RAPE
HELP
Damn, I wish I could be alive for that
If we invent the technology of immortality before you die, your dream may still come true
@@Rahul-cb4jb yeah bro, lemme just got get a couple billion dollars right quick, I'll be right back, should be no biggie
@@Rahul-cb4jb Work hard and your CEO will make a couple extra billions
If it makes you feel better nobody will.
@@alexalex4041 Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I poop on company time.
Yet again another helpful tutorial by kurzgezagt very cool 👍
Oh man, i've got so hyped about this, got up from my chair and screamed *Ok, Let's do this!* . But then i remembered it's 2018 and i will be long dead until someone starts building this thing.
Now I'm back in my chair and depressed...
Merry Christmas everyone.
then take over the world, enslave humanity, and build the damn thing. c'mon man, if you got the plans, i got your back.
But hey at least you might get to visit the moon or mars!
Darn it Nihilus get out of here! We're trying to harvest the planets, not eat them!
I'm counting on anti-ageing cream that works.
L Guo None works. And if you know biology, You will die means you will die. No escape.
I kinda want a "Building the Dyson Sphere" strategy game right now. xD
i have a mighty need for this!
edit: actually i found something very similar, look up Factorio. i literally just started playing the demo just now because it was mentioned in one of the comments of this video. another similar one is Stellaris but i feel like i'll probably enjoy Factorio more.
@@timoteorider1697 The factory must expand to meet the needs of the expanding factory.
You could try Stellaris with the Apocalypse DLC (which adds Dyson spheres and other megastructures)
Sounds like a perfect premise for a clicker game.
Same thing came to my mind. Need this in Surviving Mars or something.
Kurzgesagt: This is how to build a Dyson Sphere
Scientists: Alright we're ready.
Kurzgesagt: You need to dissasemble an entire planet.
Scientists: *u wot*
You got it backwards.
Kurzgesagt: How do we build a Dyson sphere?
Scientists: You need to disassemble an entire planet.
Kurzgesagt: Cool!
Or you could just say reverse uno to make it a meme
Nina a s
**slowly enchants everything with efficiency 32k**
The uae: *note that down! Note that down!*
This is truly and amazing channel & project, thank u folks!
Planets in the solar system:
1980: 9
2020: 8
3020: 7
Elon mUsk:
200000000: 5
Meanwhile Elon musk: nooooooooo I can’t colonise mars
😂😂😂
999999999999999999999999: -999999
69696969: 69
“Simple” Oh god, it’s Mumbo all over again.
Lol I can totally relate cause every time he does a red stone contraption, he goes like,it's not gonna be THAT hard,Is it?
@@kumarakom491 Coughs* It's SiMpLE.
It's really not that hard
Yea its literally a step by step tutorial. They aren't that difficult. He pretty much holds your hands and even tries to explain how certain parts work lol
Builds piston and a lot of stuff and makes it fly:Its simPLE
Congratulations!
You've reached "Atomic Age"
Energy +500
Likelihood of Annihilation +35%
Anyone else actually want this game? Someone should make it.
Yea
Lol . quite ducking true though ..
U mean civilization
Its already done and its called Civilization...
Civilization V
Back in my day, we had a sun: a big glowing ball flying above the earth
Thanks for the tutorial! I did it this morning and my energy bills went down a TON! Thank you!
Went down a ton? You mean free if you watched it properly
Wait…..
Uhhh ruining the 69 klike!
@@lemonke5341Nah our government found a way to tax even this source of energy 😂😖
True 😆😆😆@@IronReef77
Politicians would suck..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................forever !!!
People: Mercury will be destroyed if we build a Dyson sphere.
Scientists: a small price for salvation
Did you build a Dyson Sphere?
*Yes.*
What did it cost?
*Mercury.*
MechanicPluto24 lol
I mean how many of us would actually be bothered if the planet was completely mined to the core to the point where it's unrecognizable? I mean obviously if it had life it would be a different story, but if the planet itself is dead then it truly is a small price to pay.
@@howdydoody6057 It's just sitting there, screwing up Newtonian physics.... I as a classical Newtonian definitely think we should get rid of Mercury.
@@thamasteroneill Never heard of that but it adds another reason to get rid of it! More then worth it for unlimited energy.
If your watching this is 2021, a new game just came out named “Dyson Sphere Program.” If a Dyson sphere interest you at all, look it up. Def one of the best Space games I’ve ever played. It’s on steam too.
I discovered it after watching this video, looking forward to buying it.
@@Ravenclaw-ql6kk I just hit the 30 hour mark today. Can’t recommend it enough! It should be on sale right now.
I can't help but think they saw this video and it's video game aesthetic and thought "I'ma make that"...
@@EmbracingAwkward There was actually another game called Stellaris that has some megastructure mods which I think it’s more directly inspired by. However, for what isn’t from Civ or Stellaris, a lot of the UI appears to take design ideas from this video in addition to more focus on a Dyson Swarm for a while over just the rigid sphere that I think is the endgame. It’s also really incredible that the game also takes the Dyson Sphere’s Kardeshev Type II civilisation of harvesting energy from the entire star system and brings it into Type III on the galactic scale. Dyson Sphere Program is just a fantastic game :D
@@GuiSmith I got after watching this video and have already poured way too much time into it. It's great!