Artist's conception of a Dyson sphere. Image:
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In 1999, Sandberg wrote a remarkable paper proposing one specific conception of how such a structure might work. It was likely enough, Sandberg wrote, that Dyson spheres would be used to power star-sized computers. After all, if our own civilization is any guide, then computing becomes an ever more important objective with time, for any advanced civilization. That’s not to say that computing would be the only possible use of a Dyson sphere.“A key question is, what do you use your Dyson Sphere for?”
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