Selects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 23 October 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In 1960 physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that in the hunt for alien life, we should search for evidence of massive engineering projects that encapsulate stars with solar arrays to harness their energy. Could we humans ever make one ourselves? Find out in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Hey everybody, it's your old pal Josh and for this week's Select, I invite you to listen to our
0:35.9	ridiculously interesting episode on Dyson Sphere.
0:40.0	It's a really cool look at how we'll start harnessing energy in the solar system in the future
0:45.0	and eventually from the universe as a whole.
0:47.8	And when we do, stand back.
0:50.3	I hope you find this one as interesting as Chuck and I did.
0:53.2	So get it up and enjoy.
0:59.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:09.2	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:10.6	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's over there.
1:15.6	They're foot on the button and that means this is Stuff You Should Know, the podcast.
1:21.2	The foot on the button.
1:23.2	Just waiting to cut us off.
1:25.2	Yeah, that's what no one knows.
1:27.2	But Jerry has a kill switch at her foot for all of our profane tie raids.
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