Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures? Reading time 3 minutes Assuming aliens do physics like us but are ...

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In the 1960s, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that advanced alien civilizations could be building enormous megastructures around a star to harness its energy. Such a move would allow a civilization ...

If there are alien civilizations in the Universe, some of them could be super advanced. So advanced that they can rip apart planets and create vast shells surrounding a star to capture all its energy.

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A recent study reveals that certain configurations of artificial spheres and rings around binary stars could be stable. The work of Colin McInnes, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

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