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 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 ...

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 Dyson Sphere concept is a staple of science fiction, from Star Trek to the novels of Larry Niven, and it sounds like a dream come true: a way to harvest almost all of the immense energy output of ...

The Dyson Sphere is one of the hallmarks of looking for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Scientists say that if we manage to find one, we can be sure that it's a super-advanced ...

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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.