Attn: Math nerds

[P3nT4gR4m]

If one were inclined to do so I believe it would be possible, using this newfangled mathematics I've heard so much about, to calculate the surface area of a sphere with the same radius as the average distance from the earth to the sun (149 million kilometers) and express that as a factor of the surface area of the earth itself (5.1 × 108 km2)

Unfortunately I don't math or I'd know how to work it out myself. Maybe someone here can help? I'd like a serious answer to help with a project I'm currently working on but, in lieu of that, piss-take answers will suffice.

Come on math boffins - impress me!

[Rumckle]

5.47 x 10^8 S

Where S is the surface area of the earth. Assuming your numbers are kosher, I didn't check them.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I don't know what in the fuck you just wrote, you lost me at "^"

Just tell me a number of times, damnit  eg. 10 times, 100, times, a million times or whatever

[Rumckle]

10^8 means 10 to the power of 8

in other words, it will be

547 million times the surface area of the earth

[P3nT4gR4m]

Awesome! Thanks for that 

[Rumckle]

no probs, may I ask what's it for?

[P3nT4gR4m]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/SolarSystemMk2.jpg

I've only just started this. It'll get better, honest The idea is a dyson sphere with another sphere under construction around it. The second sphere has the same radius as the distance from earth to sun and I'll be writing a bit of blurb to go along with it which is why I wanted the numbers.

It also means my scale is off on the inner sphere surface - each hexagon would be about a couple of million times the surface of earth so there's no way you'd see that kind of detail but I think I'll leave it like that cos it makes it look cosier.

X will be where I'm sticking a factory plant collecting the carbon pellets that the planet harvester is firing at it and building a new hexagonal section. Y will be a hex section being fitted into place. I got another 10 or 11 days to finish this, I'll post the finished pic if you're interested.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

NEEEEERRRRDDDDSSSS 

[Don Coyote]

NEEEEERRRRDDDDSSSS 

Geometry be very hard and complex.

BURN THE WITCH!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rumckle]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/SolarSystemMk2.jpg

I've only just started this. It'll get better, honest The idea is a dyson sphere with another sphere under construction around it. The second sphere has the same radius as the distance from earth to sun and I'll be writing a bit of blurb to go along with it which is why I wanted the numbers.

It also means my scale is off on the inner sphere surface - each hexagon would be about a couple of million times the surface of earth so there's no way you'd see that kind of detail but I think I'll leave it like that cos it makes it look cosier.

X will be where I'm sticking a factory plant collecting the carbon pellets that the planet harvester is firing at it and building a new hexagonal section. Y will be a hex section being fitted into place. I got another 10 or 11 days to finish this, I'll post the finished pic if you're interested.

Sweet, that's awesome!

[Requia ☣]

Why would you build a Dyson sphere around a Dyson sphere?   

[P3nT4gR4m]

For SCIENCE! 

[Jasper]

Why would you build a Dyson sphere around a Dyson sphere?   

I think you mean, why would xzibit write sci-fi?

[P3nT4gR4m]

If you must know it's so they can spin it round and provide day/night cycles. 

[Rumckle]

If you must know it's so they can spin it round and provide day/night cycles. 

I think I get it, the outside one isn't actually a Dyson sphere, right? It's just a planet formed to be a sphere. Hence, wanting to know the surface area. That's pretty neat. Though, the energy needed to create gravity would be enormous I'd think.

Is the inside based on images from Google Earth? Or is it just me?