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The Megastructure Compendium

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Planet Brains and Planet Ships

Planet ships are artificial wards designed to serve as immense interstellar or intergalatic colony ships. A planet swarm is a younger brother of a dyson swarm in that it is a large swarm of habitats and mega structures around a planet rather than a star. Swarm might contain more people than most hypothetical syphi galactic empires, and may well be where the majority of humanity lives. See also dicin swarms, camanapolis and tear and ring.

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