Dyson swarm searches are looking for a very specific form of engineering, but since we don't really know what ET might do and build, could we be missing other types of technosignatures?

The answer is sobering: a full Dyson swarm could raise the planet’s temperature by 140 degrees Kelvin, enough to boil oceans and erase all known life. A grand design for civilization-level energy.

The science behind dyson swarms. First introduced by physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960, the Dyson swarm is a theoretical megastructure designed to maximize a civilization’s energy collection from ...

Given a thousand years time, a Dyson swarm might seem inevitable, rather than impossible. Originally published on RealClearScience . Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest ...

Dr. Stuart Armstrong, a researcher at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, has done just that, forecasting how humanity could one day build a Dyson swarm around the Sun. Unlike a ...

In devising this Dyson Swarm game plan, Armstrong assumed—conservatively, he thinks—only a one-tenth efficiency for rocketing material off Mercury. The other 90 percent of available energy ...

One team from the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University proposed how to make a Dyson swarm, which they deemed the most realistic design, free from the impracticalities of full spheres.

A Dyson Swarm of about 10 million satellites could fulfill humanity’s energy needs. That’s a lot, but modern satellite constellations are creating precedence for such an engineering feat.

The simplest form of the Dyson Sphere, a solid spherical shell, is problematic: It would be subject to unaccetably large stresses and its equilibrium around the star is neutral at best. Therefore, ...

A Dyson swarm would remove that limit. It would allow us to train advanced AI, run massive simulations, and support technologies we can barely imagine today. There is also the promise of space.

While a complete Dyson swarm would hide a star from view, this waste heat would still be detectable. The caveat is that to build a complete Dyson swarm, a lot of raw material is required. In his 1960 ...

Of the two, the Dyson swarm is considered the most feasible because of the engineering challenges of constructing a solid shell. Researchers think that if Dyson spheres did exist, ...