How a Dyson Swarm Might Work

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Could we ever harness our power from a shell of solar collectors positioned around a star? It's called a Dyson Sphere, and was theorized by physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960. Dyson predicted we could detect alien civilizations using this technology by looking for the heat signatures they would emit.



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