In the 1960s, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that advanced alien civilizations could be building enormous megastructures around a star to harness its energy. Such a move would allow a civilization ...
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If fusion energy is a must-have for advanced civilizations, evidence of its use could help us find aliens. A new study led by the University of Washington analyzes how deuterium-deuterium (DD) fusion ...
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Dyson spheres, the hypothetical mega-structures that advanced alien civilizations might use to enclose a star and harness its energy, suffer from a fatal flaw: They are catastrophically unstable. But ...