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Building a Dyson Swarm from Scratch
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Building a Dyson Swarm... from Scratch
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Graphics: Bryan Versteeg, Jeremy Jozwik, Ken York Sergio Botero
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images
Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Chapters
0:00 Intro What Is a Dyson Swarm?
5:49 Gathering the Materials
9:40 Proto-Swarm: Our First Steps
13:05 Mining the Solar System
14:33 Beyond Mercury: The True Scale of the Swarm
19:10 Ghosts of Friendship Past
20:34 Building Habitats: How Much Mass Do We Really Need?
27:42 The Long Dawn of a Stellar Civilization
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