{"id":190352,"date":"2024-05-30T02:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/building-a-dyson-sphere-around-the-sun-would-be-easy-if-we-used-jupiter-for-raw-materials"},"modified":"2024-05-30T02:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T07:23:20","slug":"building-a-dyson-sphere-around-the-sun-would-be-easy-if-we-used-jupiter-for-raw-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/building-a-dyson-sphere-around-the-sun-would-be-easy-if-we-used-jupiter-for-raw-materials","title":{"rendered":"Building a Dyson Sphere Around the Sun Would Be Easy if We Used Jupiter for Raw Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-a-dyson-sphere-around-the-sun-would-be-easy-if-we-used-jupiter-for-raw-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d need an astronomical amount of resources to construct a Dyson sphere, a giant theoretical shell that would harvest all of a given star\u2019s energy, around the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, as science journalist Jaime Green explores in her new book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/the-possibility-of-life-jaime-green?variant=40643758391330\" class=\"\">The Possibility of Life<\/a>,\u201d we\u2019d have to go as far as to demolish a Jupiter-sized planet to build such a megastructure, a concept first devised by physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you wanted enough material to build such a thing, you\u2019d essentially have to disassemble a planet, and not just a small one \u2014 more like Jupiter,\u201d Green writes in her book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019d need an astronomical amount of resources to construct a Dyson sphere, a giant theoretical shell that would harvest all of a given star\u2019s energy, around the Sun. In fact, as science journalist Jaime Green explores in her new book \u201cThe Possibility of Life,\u201d we\u2019d have to go as far as to demolish a Jupiter-sized [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190352","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}