Heh, yeah, no kidding. I mean you've already _got_ construction bots to start with! I'm sure the blue prints will be sooner rather than later. It'd be also nice to have the logistics towers be able to ...

Side note: if we can build a structure around the sun, we won’t need local energy storage for said structure. Also, I’m with others in thinking a swarm is the way to go. Though I don’t think that ...

The gargantuan artificial construct enveloping your local star is going to be rather difficult to miss, even from a few light years away. And given the literally astronomical costs of resources needed ...

The Sphere would not gravitationally bind to its star in a stable fashion. This is perhaps counterintuitive; you might think that a perfect sphere around a star would be stable. But if any part of the ...

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In 1960, visionary physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that an advanced alien civilization would someday quit fooling around with kindergarten-level stuff like wind turbines and nuclear reactors and ...

Dyson spheres and rings have always held a special fascination for me. The concept is simple: build a great big structure either as a sphere or ring to harness the energy from a star. Dyson rings are ...

The bold question-askers at What If explore what building a Dyson Sphere around the sun could achieve.