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Re:Starcloud by Gravityloss on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:58AM (#45680433)
In space this wouldn't really work since there's no conduction or convection.

If you think of a big ball of droplet mist. From the point of view of a droplet in the center, it gets heat radiation from all the droplets around it. It can only radiate heat to black sky it sees, and it might be none, it's "sky" is just filled by other hot droplets. So it doesn't cool at all.

The total power radiated can't exceed the proportion to the macro surface area with tricks.

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