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How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · 24.6M views · 2018-12-20 · 7:49

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A Kurzgesagt animated explainer on how humanity could build a Dyson sphere, a swarm of structures capturing the sun's energy. It covers using Mercury's materials and a step-by-step construction approach.

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HN links it as a nice intro to what a realistic Dyson swarm would require, and as a companion to megastructure discussions.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2019–2024

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michaelbarton · 2022-04 · Strong recommendation

Nice intro video on what may be realistically required to build a Dyson sphere: [VIDEO] By Kurzgesagt, all their videos are excellent and informed by the literature.

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solardev · 2024-03 · Reference

Pewpew it as lasers? That YouTube K-animation channel I can't spell (Kurdurkistan?) has an episode on it: [VIDEO] There's also the great engineering/factory game Dyson Sphere Program: [LINK]

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mdaniel · 2022-11 · Reference

heh [LINK] made me think of the recent Universal Paperclips thread, to which I will not hyperlink in order to spare the audience from the productivity virus :-) But, in the spirit of fun productivity degradation, I love, love, love this game: [LINK] Also relevant, from Kurzgesagt: [VIDEO]

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