I don’t know how my comment makes you think I didn’t read the article. In fact, maybe you didn’t read my comment at all. And maybe this entire situation will get resolved if I just quote my entire original post right now:

Yes. That’s kind of exactly what the man himself said on the video. He even explained that the belt sander does “exactly the same” as a whetstone.

I sometimes wish this country was located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Fucking WHAT!? Why does Finland get half nuked while Sweden and Norway get to go about their usual business.

Man, I don’t kno what the hell is wrong with me, but I don’t understand the joke here.

I’m sorry if my sense of humor is running kind of thin.

It would be super duper cool.

Thin air is matter.

It’s not possible to create matter out of thin air — that’s not how reality works. And technology cannot override that reality.

It’s cool that you’re quoting a science fiction author in a discussion about whether or not the Dyson Sphere is a concept that can withstand any kind of scientific scrutiny.

Not hamstrung in their solar system by resource limitations. Just unable to obtain enough resources to build a Dyson Sphere.

Alight. Let’s just agree to disagree.

Your argument is leaning so heavily on assumptions and guesswork that it’s more of a dream or a work of fiction than an argument based on anything we understand about reality.

Wow. I feel super duper defeated, because your argument doesn’t have any flaws at all!

What you’re saying is that if you were able to dismantle an entire planet for materials (which no alien race is going to do because the disappearance of an entire planet would be really bad news for their solar system) — then those materials could be used for building a Dyson Structure?

Okay. So, you get the raw materials from three or four planets.

No. There is no shortage of raw materials in the universe, but a super advaced alien race also doesn’t have acess to all the raw materials in the universe. They have access to the raw materials in their solar system. And if you can’t use the most abundant and available materials to build the suggested Dyson…

Exactomundo.

They can’t magically make enough raw materials appear in their solar system to build a structure around the sun that tens of millions of kilometers in diameter.

Oh, now we’re comparing ONE medieval castle to all the iPhones ever made?