bing chen and yan li

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The concept of Interstellar Empires has fascinated us for as long as we've know those stars in the night sky were other solar systems, and it's become a staple of science fiction. But rarely do we consider how realistic such galaxy-spanning confederations are, and what special challenges they'd face.


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Music
Markus Junnikkala, "Always tell me the odds"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth"
A.J. Prasad, "Aether"
Kai Engel, "Snowfall"
Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
Markus Junnikkala, "Memory of Earth"
Brandow Liew,
"Into the Storm"

A new version of the original video covering the Dyson Dilemma of the Fermi Paradox, in which we cover the apparent contradiction in the lack of numerous Dyson Spheres in the Universe and their seeming inevitable construction by growth-oriented technological civilizations.

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Hart Conjecture, original 1975 Paper
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