dyson spheres
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Why We Should Look For Alien Megastructures Around Pulsars
Some day in the far future, it’s possible our descendants will kick it up a notch and wrap the entire Sun in a massive solar-collecting shell known as a Dyson Sphere. It’s also possible that some advanced alien civilisations have already gone this route, which is why some SETI folks are on the lookout for…
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A New Type Of Dyson Sphere May Be Nearly Impossible To Detect
Over fifty years ago, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed an awesome, if slightly insane, idea: That an advanced alien civilisation might construct a massive, energy-harvesting sphere around its star, and bunk up inside.