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

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Have You Ever Used Energy?

We need to come up with energy sources that we won't eventually run out of. The problem is, as even if we harnessed all the energy here on earth, we would very quickly outgrow whatever energy it provided. So some people have said, why don't we just go straight to the source? If the sun's such a great source of energy, but it's shooting that energy out in a direction other than the earth,. Itis something called a dyson sphere, yes. And one of the first proposals of it, i don't want to say a serious proposal, because although it's been taken seriously over the years and almost been preted like scripture.

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