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Stuart Armstrong // Dyson swarms and death rays

Published: July 2, 2018, midnight

Dr. Stuart Armstrong researches the potential for intelligent life across the universe. In this work, he\u2019s speculated on the kinds of engineering we should expect from an advanced civilization, most commonly the Dyson structure. In our conversation we explored how a civilization might theoretically capture the entire energy output of a star, how we might build something like this ourselves, and how that energy might be used to warm \u2013 or vaporize \u2013 planetary objects in our solar system.