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Credits:

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

Memories and Magic in the Rhodes Family Office

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