Top 3 Coolest Space Megastructures #Shorts
8,3601. Ringworld - The Earth may not be our home forever. Eventually, we may have to leave. What if instead of finding a potentially habitable exoplanet light-years away, we stayed in our Solar System and built a habitat so enormous we could never overpopulate it? What if we built a halo ringworld? Watch here: https://youtu.be/QyDuk-eAFAI
2. Alderson Disk - This is not some DVD floating in space. It's a megastructure that might one day become humanity's home. The Earth might not remain habitable forever. It could get engulfed by a massive solar flare, or become too hot due to climate change, or have all its life wiped out by one enormous asteroid. What if I told you we could outlive all these disasters? And that we could do that by building a space megastructure bigger than the Sun itself? Watch here: https://youtu.be/-e2mBJ0O3Rw
3. Dyson Sphere - What if we could engineer a gigantic megastructure capable of harvesting every bit of the Sun's energy? Something known as a Dyson sphere. How long would it take to construct this megashell? Where would we find all the materials needed? And what could we do with the structure once we finally built it? Watch here: https://youtu.be/4PuV8AccRYA
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