On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Tim <tim@little-possums.net> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 04:58:40PM +1000, Kenneth Barns wrote:
> Indeed.  I think the idea of 600 people, no matter how high their IQ,
> building a Dyson sphere, in 300 years, is ... unlikely.  :)

Maybe the "600 people" count doesn't include the 10^18 near-sentient
self-replicating AIs they control, that actually did all the work?

"Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred."

Which - now that I think about it - may have been a subtle clue from the authors as to the probable survival of the PCs . . . :P