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  2. Megastructure - Wikipedia

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    A cut-away diagram of an idealized Dyson shell—a variant on Dyson's original concept—1 AU in radius.. Most stellar scale megastructure proposals are designs to make use of the energy from a sun-like star while possibly still providing gravity or other attributes that would make it attractive for an advanced civilization.

  3. Category:Megastructures - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Megastructures" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... This page was last edited on 24 October 2021, at 10:07 (UTC).

  4. List of largest cosmic structures - Wikipedia

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    Komberg-Kravtsov-Lukash LQG 10: 180,000,000: Discovered by Boris V. Komberg, Andrey V. Kravstov and Vladimir N. Lukash. [23] [24] Virgo Supercluster: 110,000,000: A part of the Laniakea Supercluster (see above). It also contains the Milky Way Galaxy, which contains the Solar System where Earth orbits the Sun. Listed here for reference.

  5. List of megaprojects - Wikipedia

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    This project will widen the current four-lane segments to eight lanes along nearly 10 mi (16 km) of the I-64 corridor from Hampton to Norfolk, Virginia with new twin tunnels. [156] Interstate Highway System: Nationwide: 1956: Completed: 2018: $500 billion [citation needed] John F. Kennedy International Airport Redevelopment: New York City: 2020 ...

  6. Megastructures (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Megastructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel in the United States and the United Kingdom, Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, France 5 in France, and 7mate in Australia.

  7. Dyson sphere - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by the 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon, [4] the physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson was the first to formalize the concept of what became known as the "Dyson sphere" in his 1960 Science paper "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infra-Red Radiation".

  8. Megastructure (planning concept) - Wikipedia

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    Megastructure is an architectural and urban concept of the post-war era, which envisions a city or an urban form that could be encased in a massive single human-made structure or a relatively small number of interconnected structures.

  9. Alderson disk - Wikipedia

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    A schematic illustration of an Alderson disk. An Alderson disk [1] [2] (named after Dan Alderson, its originator) is a hypothetical artificial astronomical megastructure, like Larry Niven's Ringworld and the Dyson sphere.