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The Megastructure Compendium

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Burnal Spherical Planet

The burnal sphere is one of the oldest mega structure concepts, having been proposed by john desmond burnell in 19 29. Suggests they could be used for building massive hollow shells we might fill with matter to make artificial planets form what are this a we call shell words. And he suggested t t these might even be built around giant black hores, such as we find at the centre of many galaxies. A maximum sized borch planet contains an entire galaxy, or even multiple, and may have thousands of layers,. potentially reach over one sextillion or a billion billion orths worth of living area.

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