HELLO, IS IT ET YOU’RE LOOKING FOR?
Feb 16, 2022
3 minutes
MEGASTRUCTURES
ust as our global energy needs are always increasing, so too will the energy needs of an advanced alien civilisation. In 1960, Anglo-American physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that, eventually, ETs will want to use the entire energy output of their parent star. They might do this, he argued, by dismantling their asteroid belt and reconstructing it in the form of a spherical shell that completely encloses their sun. Not only would this provide tremendous amounts of energy, it would
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