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the world of astronomy if you are human you are going to die ironically death is a part
of life and it is inevitable we all know that and yet we continue to strive for the impossible
immortality what if you did get a chance to become immortal or at least come back from the dead at
some point in the future would you do it humanity has always been power hungry global energy
consumption has increased more than 20 fold during the previous two centuries as our civilization has
become increasingly industrialized what will our power hungry descendants do when demand exceeds
what earth and its environs can provide we have a daring fix in front of our eyes
the dyson sphere this massive device which is typically pictured as a sun-sized shell
lined with mirrors or solar cells is intended to capture every last bit of a star's energy
the enormous amount in the case of our sun is 400 septillion watts per second
which is roughly a trillion times the amount of energy used on a global scale right now
in addition the dyson spheres interior has the potential to contain significantly more habitable
space than a meager planet but how would we go about achieving this miracle researchers claim
that this gigantic cosmic structure has the power to not only resurrect humans but also
grant them immortality let's see how the dyson sphere contains enormous amounts of power the
idea is to supply this power to super intelligent beings or ai who will use it to extract every bit
of data from an individual and use that data to create an exact digital copy of that individual
once done that person is in a sense alive once more and life can begin again
but this time in a simulated reality of course the end of this life will come too and when the person
dies he or she will be taken into an afterlife mind you a simulated afterlife where in essence
everyone else he or she knows will be there too doesn't it feel like an episode of black mirror
unreal perhaps but researchers are working on this technology
along with other approaches like life extension cryonics and quantum immortality but even if this
futuristic concept was possible on paper do we have enough resources to turn it into reality
even if we used every fossil fuel and uranium present on earth and were perfectly efficient
we would still only be able to launch the same amount of mass as the mount everest into space
do you now understand the insurmountable task in front of us alexei turchen a russian
transhumanist and life extensionist has been working on this research since 2014.
he is also teaching and getting a community of russians ready to incorporate technologies
that will eventually enable them to go beyond their current physical and mental limitations
in order to provide all possible and relevant information to the super-intelligent beings
turchin keeps detailed records of his life in terms of dreams conversations memories
and daily experiences this way when the ai resurrects the human it will have the
exact same development conditions as well as serve to be as authentic as the real human
once the exact digital copy is made everything is possible even restoration to biological life
the ai is so powerful that it will search for that individual's dna in every way possible to create
the clone even if it means digging up graves of course here we are talking about a single human
and the enormous amount of power needed to resurrect him now what if we had to do the
same with a billion humans who have ever lived we would have to account for the exact digital copies
of the same simulation keeping in mind a wide variety of developments and variations
do you think earth has enough power and computational resources to support this
kind of a technological revolution definitely not from where would we get such power then
the sun better yet a dyson sphere around the sun the fantastical concept of the dyson sphere was
first proposed by the late physicist freeman dyson in the 1960s he articulated the need
to search for artificial stellar sources of infrared radiation one should expect that within
a few thousand years of it entering the stage of industrial development any intelligent species
should be found occupying an artificial biosphere which completely surrounds its parent star
dyson wrote in the 1960 science paper that led to him becoming the namesake of this megastructure
to put it simply a dyson sphere can be compared to several different satellites with separate
orbits a fleet of solar farms collated to form a 300 million kilometer shell around the sun
it would truly be the most magnificent alien megastructure ever known that could provide a nice
segue for us to transform from a planetary species to an interstellar one a staggering thought indeed
but sadly for us at the moment it is in principle only a thought because at the moment
we can't really build such a structure building a sphere around the sun
is not only impractical but also impossible not only do we not have any material on earth that is
strong enough to withstand the power of the sun without being torn apart but also no material
would gravitationally bind to the star in a stable manner if any part of the hypothetical sphere
were to come even the tiniest bit closer to the sun for example by a meteor strike then that would
get pulled towards the sun causing instability but scientists have found an alternative to this
they call it the dyson swarm it is supposed to serve the same purpose as the dyson sphere
but instead of a sphere encompassing the sun it consists of thousands of tiny mirrors or solar
panels that will orbit the sun think of it like a swarm of bees buzzing around a hive the dyson
swarm will cover the sun from external view while capturing the maximum amount of the sun's energy
so if humans cannot build this structure then what solution do we have
scientists believe that nanorobots could do the trick all they would need to do is mine a small
planet for iron and oxygen and use these to create a reflective hematite surface around the sun even
if these nanorobots could help us build a sphere that harnessed enormous amounts of energy there
are still some hindrances some scientists still doubt the idea of digital resurrection
simply because they believe that replicating all the developmental conditions of a human being
is impossible a digital copy will have similar attributes to the original up to a point
once downloaded it will evolve into a different person become an entirely new entity in that sense
a digital copy is bound to be different from the original biological one
moreover even if we were able to develop super advanced technology to upload our
personality onto a computer powered by a dyson sphere we would be essentially talking about a
very large extension of the human lifespan but certainly not immortality because at some point
the star powering us will implode and become a supernova taking with it our precious power source
while the simulation might run for over a billion years the likelihood of there being errors
is very high we may duplicate say 80 to 90 of a human being but would you be satisfied with
just that much similarity having reviewed all these scenarios the idea of resurrecting human
beings from the dead is definitely not conceivable but what is possible with the
help of dyson sphere and advanced ai is digital resurrection it could be the next big thing
would you go for it if you had the chance what do you guys think drop in your comments below
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