Episode 754: Q&A 152: Could We Detect Dyson Swarms? And More...

Published: July 5, 2021, 7 p.m.

In this week's questions show, I explain why Dyson Spheres (and Swarms) should actually be pretty easy to detect across the Universe. If it's possible to service the Hubble Space Telescope with a Falcon 9, and will computers take jobs away from astronomers.

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00:00 Start
\n01:04 How could we detect Dyson Swarms?
\n07:24 How could we hide a Dyson Swarm?
\n10:03 Could a Falcon 9 service Hubble?
\n13:02 Will computers replace humans in astronomy?
\n16:30 Will any Venus missions be able to detect life?
\n18:43 Could you generate repeating gravitational waves?
\n20:25 What conventional wisdom will be disproven by science?
\n23:43 How much longer will Earth be habitable?
\n26:08 What will drive space exploration?
\n28:15 Will James Webb let us see more Universe?
\n29:27 What do I think about the similarity between cosmic filaments compared to the CMB?
\n30:27 What are some future propulsion systems?

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