{"id":162741,"date":"2023-04-23T22:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T03:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/hitting-the-books-wed-likely-have-to-liquidate-jupiter-to-build-a-dyson-sphere-around-the-sun"},"modified":"2023-04-23T22:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T03:22:54","slug":"hitting-the-books-wed-likely-have-to-liquidate-jupiter-to-build-a-dyson-sphere-around-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/hitting-the-books-wed-likely-have-to-liquidate-jupiter-to-build-a-dyson-sphere-around-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"Hitting the Books: We\u2019d likely have to liquidate Jupiter to build a Dyson Sphere around the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The gargantuan artificial construct enveloping your local star is going to be rather difficult to miss, even from a few light years away. And given the literally astronomical costs of resources needed to construct such a device \u2014 the still-theoretical-for-humans Dyson Sphere \u2014 having one in your solar system will also serve as a stark warning of your technological capacity to ETs that comes sniffing around.<\/p>\n

Or at least that\u2019s how 20th century astronomers like Nikolai Kardashev and Carl Sagan envisioned our potential Sol-spanning distant future going. Turns out, a whole lot of how we predict intelligences from outside our planet will behave is heavily influenced by humanity\u2019s own cultural and historical biases. In The Possibility of Life<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>science journalist Jaime Green examines humanity\u2019s intriguing history of looking to the stars and finding ourselves reflected in them.<\/p>\n

Excerpted from The Possibility of Life<\/em><\/a> by Jaime Green, Copyright \u00a9 2023 by Jaime Green. Published by Hanover Square Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The gargantuan artificial construct enveloping your local star is going to be rather difficult to miss, even from a few light years away. And given the literally astronomical costs of resources needed to construct such a device \u2014 the still-theoretical-for-humans Dyson Sphere \u2014 having one in your solar system will also serve as a stark [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}