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<h3>Risks and challenges</h3>
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Building a Dyson Sphere is like trying to wrap a birthday present around the Sun while wearing oven mitts in zero gravity. Sure, we'll face
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"minor" obstacles like figuring out how to mine asteroids without accidentally sending one hurtling toward Earth, or developing materials that
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won't instantly vaporize when placed near a thermonuclear furnace. But hey, our team is staffed with optimists who think "impossible" is just a
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fancy word for "hasn't been attempted by people desperate enough." We've already ordered commemorative t-shirts that say "Either we'll harness
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unlimited energy or create the galaxy's most expensive light show."
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"minor" obstacles like figuring out how to mine asteroids without accidentally sending one toward Earth, or developing materials that won't
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instantly vaporize when placed near a thermonuclear furnace. But hey, our team is filled with optimists who think "impossible" is just a fancy
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word for "hasn't been attempted by people desperate enough." We've already ordered commemorative t-shirts that say "Welcome to the galaxy's most
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expensive light show."
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The logistics might seem daunting (where do you even store the assembly instructions for a structure larger than Earth's orbit?), but we've got
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solutions. Our engineers are working on self-replicating robots that will build the sphere for us, assuming they don't gain sentience and decide
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to build themselves a beach house on Mercury instead. As for the minor issue of potentially dimming sunlight to Earth and altering our climate
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forever – we've calculated that by the time anyone notices, we'll be too rich and powerful for it to matter! Rest assured, our contingency plans
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have contingency plans, and those plans primarily involve blaming any catastrophes on rival megaprojects or solar flares.
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The logistics may seem alarming, but we have solutions. Our engineers are working on self-replicating robots that will build the sphere for us,
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unless they were to gain consciousness and decide to build a vacation house on Mars instead. As for the small matter of the possible decline in
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sunlight on Earth and the permanent change in our climate, let's just hope that EDF won't raise their prices too much because of us.
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