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The Megastructure Compendium

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Cool World's Episode 2 - Quasites

A quasite is a variation of a statite, suggested by kipping in two thousand 19 as a possible techno signature for hunting for extraterrestrial intelligence. Quasites can also be intentionally made to create satellites that remain with a planet when not normally permissible by orbital mechanics. Red globular clusters are artificially optimized galaxies based on the idea that stars of roughly one quarter our sun's mass can fuse all their hydrogen over trillions of years and become blue dwarfs. A dicon swarm composed of as much as a trillion such stars might be hone to trillions of trillions of people for trillions of years.

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