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    A megastructure (or macrostructure) is a very large artificial object, although the limits of precisely how large vary considerably. Some apply the term...
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  • megastructure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A megastructure is a very large artificial object. Megastructure may also refer to: Megastructure (planning...
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    the resulting light curve. It has been suggested that it is an alien megastructure, but evidence tends to discount this suggestion. In September 2019,...
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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...
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    Alderson disk (category Megastructures)
    Alderson, its originator) is a hypothetical artificial astronomical megastructure, like Larry Niven's Ringworld and the Dyson sphere. The disk is a giant...
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    setting. Arcology Conurbation Ecumene Ekistics Megacity Megalopolis Megastructure Merger (politics) Metropolis Principles of intelligent urbanism Urban...
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  • by the governing AI agency with finding a human in the 5.3-AU radius Megastructure who still possesses the Net Terminal Gene, a genetic marker necessary...
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    Dyson sphere (category Megastructures)
    A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output. The concept is a thought experiment...
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  • Nazi Megastructures is a documentary television series appearing on the National Geographic Channel and a spinoff of the broader Megastructures television...
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  • Artificial world (category Megastructures)
    refer to: Megastructure, large man-made structures, especially those located in outer space. Artificial planet, specific type of megastructure All pages...
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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...
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  • Megascale engineering (category Megastructures)
    one megameter, hence the name. Such large-scale structures are termed megastructures. In addition to large-scale structures, megascale engineering is also...
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  • Netflix original in May 2017. Blame! is set in "The City", a gigantic megastructure occupying much of what used to be the Solar System. Its exact size is...
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  • come on an expedition to this location, discovering a pyramid-like megastructure, as well as several outlying areas that tie into it. These new areas...
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    Artificial planet (category Megastructures)
    (also planetary replica and replica planet) is a proposed circumstellar megastructure with sufficient mass to generate its own gravity field strong enough...
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  • Matrioshka brain (category Megastructures)
    A matrioshka brain is a hypothetical megastructure of immense computational capacity powered by a Dyson sphere. It was proposed in 1997 by Robert J. Bradbury...
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  • other strategies, the Forerunners conceived the Halo Array—ring-shaped megastructures and weapons of last resort that would destroy all sentient life in the...
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  • drawn by a team led by Adam Henderson. The Megastructure - On a mechanical planet called the Megastructure, a sinister alien called the Overlord views...
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    biomimetic architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth. It had its first international...
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    Stellar engine (category Megastructures)
    Stellar engines are a class of hypothetical megastructures which use the resources of a star to generate available work (also called exergy). For instance...
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  • Astronomical engineering (category Megastructures)
    allow them to construct megastructures. Dyson spheres or Dyson swarm and similar constructs are hypothetical megastructures originally described by Freeman...
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    complex ones Dyson sphere – Hypothetical megastructure around a star MacGuffin – Story plot device Megastructure – Very large artificial object Ringworld –...
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  • Hypothetical technologies are technologies that do not exist yet, but that could exist in the future. They are distinct from emerging technologies, which...
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  • Citadel (Mass Effect) (category Fiction about megastructures)
    The Citadel is a fictional space station and megastructure in the Mass Effect franchise of video games developed by BioWare. An ancient station supposedly...
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  • A key concept in Marxist philosophy, see base and superstructure. Megastructure (disambiguation) MegaStructures is a documentary television series This...
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    List of megaprojects List of transport megaprojects Macro-engineering Megastructure Reference class forecasting Optimism bias Megaprojects and Risk When...
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  • Dyson–Harrop satellite (category Megastructures)
    A Dyson–Harrop satellite is a hypothetical megastructure intended for power generation using the solar wind. It is inspired by the Dyson sphere, but much...
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    be a prototype for a perpetually regenerating, prefabricated urban megastructure. It was designed with the intention that the space between the office...
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    analogous to the physical parameters of a speculatively constructible megastructure in self-suspension, such as a Dyson sphere, ringworld, Stanford torus...
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  • the significant radiation of an advanced civilization emitted by a megastructure (such as a Dyson sphere), a radio telescope with a diameter larger than...
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