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Selects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?

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Solar Sales Are the Statites, Right?

A bubble is where the satellites are in a fixed position relative to the star. A swarm has the satellites in orbit around the star, not interacting with each other. And then those are the two, and then the third are the solar sales. You could make a solar sal or cauld make any of em with solar sails. If we're creating dyson spheres, we're going to be advanced enough that we could build some really lucks a satellites and staites as solar rays to go hover or orbit around the sun,. They could be huge.

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