There’s a new wrinkle in the connection between the artificial intelligence race, and the drive to explore deep space. It’s getting a shot in the arm today with a headline from The Information that ...
Dyson spheres, the hypothetical mega-structures that advanced alien civilizations might use to enclose a star and harness its energy, suffer from a fatal flaw: They are catastrophically unstable. But ...
Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures? Reading time 3 minutes Assuming aliens do physics like us but are ...