Re: Can anyone explain this to a layman please?

From: Androcles (dummy_at_dummy.net)
Date: 01/01/05 

Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:06:21 GMT

"Edward Green" <spamspamspam3@netzero.com> wrote in message
news:1104593946.570391.304230@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Uncle Al wrote:
>
>> hlafordlaes@hotmail.com wrote:
>> >
>> > Thank you and earlier posters for your answers. The Dyson sphere
> (Randy
>> > Poe) is a solution,
>> [snp]
>>
>> Powerful IR emitter - the full energy output of the enclosed star and
>> more.
>
> Oh, Uncle, Uncle, Uncle. Those throwing insults should really not
> live
> in glass houses.
>
> (1) And your "dust cloud" does what with the absorbed energy?
>
> Although perhaps you did not mean an all encompassing cloud, but
> merely
> one blocking a certain angular quadrant. In which case reflection is
> feasible. Also you may reply that glowing dust clouds are at least
> natural features of universe -- cf. Superman's cake. Good answer, and
> I said so, even if you are a flaming fool, and your objection here off
> mark. But...
>
> (2) "And more"?
>
> I suppose the civilization living on the sphere might dabble in other
> energetic processess. But just why would they bother, when they have
> the net output of a star on the hot side of their world's largest heat
> engine, and the average temperature of the night sky on the other?
>
> Regarding fools: shall I dig up that recent post of yours where you
> casually name drop a thermodynamic relation which had about zero to do
> with your assertion, hoping nobody would check?
>
> Guess what, Uncle Al: posting here at all already lowers your imputed
> intelligence, and proving yourself smarter than any other poster is
> like trying to climb out of the water in the middle of the pond by
> stepping on another frog.

Who imputed Schwartz was intelligent? Schwartz himself?
Androcles.