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Stellar Engines

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                                                                                Stellar Engines Imagine you are a 16 year old interning to be an astronomer in NASA. One fine night you notice something strange. You see a tiny red spot in the sky while stargazing using your Celestron 660 Power Vision telescope. You know how red stars look like, but this looks different. It looks very suspicious and you believe that aliens have finally arrived. You submit the picture to the NASA Astronomy Department. They immediately use the small but efficient telescopes in their department. It looks very strange and they are unable to identify it. They immediately alert the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii. The observatories are able to pin point the location for th...

How to Start an Inter-Universal Civilization Part – 2

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  How to Start an Inter-Universal Civilization Part – 2 Last article we discussed that you are a man who has been granted immortal life until we establish full control over the multi-verse. We must also reach stage 5 on the Kardashev Scale. Since this is a huge task, James has been given immortality. The solar mission is still going on and we are collecting every scrap of resource to make the Dyson Sphere. From Mercury we found a very strong metal and named it Kalnet. Kalnet is super strong and durable. But Kalnet is very rare so we won't be able to do a lot with it. Now we must choose another alternative. We have strip-mined Venus, Mercury, Mars and the Moon, this won't cut it. Since there are no more rocky planets left in the Solar system, we can start mining asteroids. Asteroids are small celestial bodies(not very small) which are usually found in the Asteroid Belt and the Kuiper Belt. I once saw a Kurzgesagt video about mining asteroids.  An idea to mine asteroids is t...