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Astroengineering is engineering at astronomical scale, i.e. at planetary, stellar, stellar system, galactic or even larger scale. It is a form of megascale engineering. An example is the hypothetical Dyson sphere.
The Earth is about 92 AU from Sol so given an object encompassed such an area and literally surrounded that space and so surrounding Sol?
originally posted by: Kashai
a reply to: RAY1990
The Earth is about 92 AU from Sol so given an object encompassed such an area and literally surrounded that space and so surrounding Sol?
originally posted by: worldstarcountry
a reply to: Kashai
... I always thought it was just something from fiction, I did not think it was a real theory.
originally posted by: Aliensun
a reply to: Kashai
Try to explain to me how you can create an enclosing ball of material of some sort around a star.
Where would that material be found, within reason, to bring back to that star?
Fred Dyson's sphere theory was as ill-conceived as was his Orion Project that would use hydrogen bombs to push a gigantic space ship from the surface of the earth with little regard to the effects of a bomb exploding every half second in the atmosphere.